How to make egg carving

Egg carving is a kind of folk handicrafts that has gradually flourished in recent years. Egg carving crafts have a variety of, one is to use the carving knife on the surface of the darker color of the eggshell carving figures, landscapes, flowers and birds, etc., pattern shaping its effect is similar to the fine arts in the sketching or line outlining; the other is to choose a thicker texture of the goose eggs, ostrich eggs and other eggs as a material to shallow relief or hollowing out of the technique of carving. Egg carving works are completed, but also for the removal of egg liquid, sterilization and other processing. Because the eggshell is relatively thin and brittle, carving on it is very difficult, so egg carving is not yet common in the market.

The Faberge family designed the first "Royal Easter Egg" for Czar Alexander III in 1884, which was designated as the royal jeweler. The successive Royal Easter Eggs series of products completed since then have made the decorated eggs a world-famous work of art, and their works remain to this day, occasionally appearing at auctions, all of them with astonishingly high prices for people to grab the bidding. The luxurious style created by them, combined with the folk art of painted eggs, forms the unique style and popularity of decorative eggs in Europe and the United States today.

Egg carving, as an alternative art in the field of craft carving, in the design conception and creation techniques and other categories of carving is absolutely different. Each piece of finished product has to go through many failures before success, so each piece of work is a unique work of art. Because the eggshell can be stored at room temperature for more than several hundred years without deterioration, in recent years has become a hot spot in the art collection world collection! The production of eggshells are: painted, inlaid, relief, hollow carving and other techniques, of which hollow carving for one of the most difficult techniques.

2 egg carving tools

To carry out the egg carving production, first of all, to prepare some simple practical tools and production materials, these tools and materials are:

Carving knife, syringe, pencil, tweezers, hand drill, materials

Making egg carving is the main material is the egg, egg carving in the egg used in egg carving to be carried out once the selection of eggs, eggs of the choice of criteria Egg selection criteria are egg shape, egg shell thicker, uniform color, no surface scars, only meet these requirements of the eggs are suitable for egg carving.

3 egg carving production method

Egg carving in many forms, you can carve the content is also very rich, text, animals, flowers, people can be used as egg carving subject matter, the following we take flowers, animals, people, text as an example to introduce you to the production of the egg carving method.

(a) flowers

Flowers are commonly used in egg carving subjects, in the egg carving before the first draft, the draft is mostly with a pencil, pencil marks in addition to more clear, easy to carve, but also easier to remove. Carving flowers in eggshell should take into account the artistic characteristics of egg carving, egg carving is mainly shallow relief, this shallow relief is not possible to modeling multi-level picture, so in the egg carving flower design draft should be considered to choose those contrasting, contrasting graphics, while avoiding too many levels in the drawing, we designed this lotus flower to take this into account, the lines are relatively simple and clear.