How to make an egg sculpture

Egg carving is a folk handicraft that has gradually flourished in recent years. There are many kinds of egg carving crafts. One is to carve figures, landscapes and flowers and birds on eggshells with a carving knife. After the pattern is formed, its effect is similar to sketch or line drawing in art; The other is to choose goose eggs, ostrich eggs and other thick eggs as materials and carve them by bas-relief or hollowing out. After the egg carving work is completed, the egg liquid needs to be taken out and disinfected. Because the eggshell is thin and brittle, it is very difficult to carve on it, so egg carving is rare in the market.

The Faberge family designed the first "Royal Easter Egg" for Tsar Alexander III in 1884, and was appointed as a jeweler of royal supplies. Since then, the series of royal Easter eggs have been completed one after another, making decorative eggs a world-famous work of art, and their works have occasionally appeared in auctions so far, and they have won the bid at an amazing high price. Its luxurious style, combined with folk egg art, has formed the unique style and popularity of decorative eggs in Europe and America today.

As an alternative art in the field of craft carving, egg carving is completely different from other kinds of carving in design conception and creative techniques. Every finished product has to go through many failures to succeed, so every work is a unique work of art. Because eggshells can be preserved for hundreds of years at room temperature, they have become a hot spot in art collection in recent years! There are many techniques for making eggshells, such as painting, inlay, relief, hollowing out and carving, among which hollowing out and carving is one of the most difficult techniques.

2 egg carving tools

To make egg carvings, we must first prepare some simple and practical tools and materials. These tools and materials are:

Carving knives, syringes, pencils, tweezers, hand drills, materials

The main material of egg carving is poultry eggs, and the selection of poultry eggs used in egg carving should be completed at one time. The selection criteria of poultry eggs are symmetrical egg shape, thick eggshell, uniform color and no scar on the surface. Only poultry eggs that meet these requirements are suitable for egg carving.

3 egg carving production method

There are many forms of egg carving, and the content that can be carved is also very rich. Words, animals, flowers and figures can all be used as the theme of egg carving. Taking flowers, animals, figures and characters as examples, this paper introduces the production method of egg carving.

(1) flowers and plants

Flowers are a common theme in egg carving. Before egg carving, you should make a draft, mostly with a pencil. The imprint of a pencil is not only clear, but also easy to carve. When carving flowers on eggshells, we should consider the artistic characteristics of egg carving. Egg carving is mainly based on bas-relief, which can't create multi-level pictures. Therefore, when designing the draft of egg carving, we should consider choosing those graphics with strong contrast to avoid too many layers in the pattern. We designed this lotus flower with this in mind, and the lines are simple and bright.