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It is best to burn goose eggs, they are the strongest.
Openwork Eggs – This is the name of the chicken eggs engraved by Mrs. Aldona. The woman has been doing this for two decades. You say that if you remember correctly, you saw eggs decorated this way for the first time in one of the magazines.
“But it was very primitive, those squares were engraved. A friend had given me his production engraving machine. I started with that with holes, because then I only had a round drill and so I bothered to engrave the ornaments. Now I have two Chinese engraving machines, with more drills, ”said A. Tenienė.
According to the interlocutor, it is possible to decorate duck eggs, but the best – goose eggs, because their shell is the strongest. And here is the chicken egg, very broken. The latter, Mrs. Aldona offers to engrave unless specially prepared, painted, for example, with acrylic, or using a very good engraving machine.
The most important thing is to drill holes through the center itself.
When asked about the procedure, the woman said that the eggs have to be inflated first and that it is very important to drill holes in the very center:
“It just came to our knowledge then. You need to take a more colorful magazine, put the egg on the back, look at it upright and rub it. Where the black or another color will appear and there will be a center. Since the egg is rounded, that spot It will not appear on the side, only in the center. And then drill a hole in the very center. It depends on how you arrange the ornaments, that’s why it is very important.
Eggs can be inflated through the mouth, in the past a man inflated them, I did not have enough strength. And now I do it with a syringe, because especially for chicken eggs – wow! – what type of lungs are needed.
Squeeze the upper hole and blow air through the lower syringe with the needle. No plates. And the content begins to run down that hole. It inflates a couple of times and runs off.
I also blow chicken eggs, decorate them, sometimes I sell them, sometimes I give them, sometimes I participate in exhibitions. Blowing with a clean syringe keeps the egg contents clean and can be used. Because now eggs are expensive, you can’t throw them away. “
The eggs can be inflated in the mouth, now I do it with a syringe.
The blown eggs, according to the interlocutor, must be washed very cleanly so that they do not shine. Dishwashing detergent can be used for this, but washing, according to the woman, is required by hand without the use of thicker sponges, as they can leave scratches.
The prepared goose egg can be etched.
Photo from personal archive / Chicken eggs engraved by Aldona Tenienė
Paint with natural paint
Ms. Aldona cautioned: don’t expect work to be quick and easy.
“It just came to our knowledge then. The engraving is very dusty, very irritating to the eyes, it smells like piercing the bone of a tooth, said the interlocutor and clarified that it takes about three days to engrave an egg: – Yes, working less than eight hours. I am already a respectable age, if a person is young, his eyes can be brighter and his hand more stable, maybe he will do it faster. “
Eggs can also be steeped in red tea or coffee, as well as black alder bark infusion.
When the egg is etched, the protective shell inside must be carefully and thoroughly cleaned to keep the ornament clean.
Once this is done, the egg can be painted. It is true that this can also be done before recording. A.Tenienė always uses only natural paints, because when drilling there is a lot of dust, and when wearing a mask, according to the interlocutor, the glasses become very wet.
“I also paint before recording. Then the white outlines of the ornament look great.
Sometimes before painting, I dip one side of the egg in the green tea, support it a bit, then carefully flip it over and support the other side. Very neat oval contours appear. Then I engrave or draw them, I no longer care about divisions, and it is very difficult to divide the egg. This color makes the egg look more interesting. That shade isn’t bright, but it still is.
Photo from personal archive / Engraved Eggs of Aldona Tenien
Eggs can be steeped in red tea or coffee, as well as black alder bark infusion: add a little more iron, rusty nails, a little salt, leftovers from a few days, and black eggs come out. Sometimes they are brown, it depends on the eggshell, but they are still beautiful.
If you want the egg to color everything, you need more water, the water inside the egg fills up through those holes, it sinks ”, revealed the interviewee the characteristics of painting eggs naturally.
It tends to break when the engraving is finished.
When asked if the eggshell often breaks when etched, Ms Aldona said it was constant, and usually when the job was coming to an end.
“The more openwork you make it, you engrave it, the more beautiful it is. But it is already finished, thin, it still wants holes, to float and break. When it breaks at the end of the engraving, note that the heart falls on the heel. Because here is a terrible job, you will not do it during the day ”, the woman opened.
According to the interlocutor, the egg is uneven with respect to the egg, and the strength of the shell also depends on how the geese feed. As mentioned, it is disappointing when a lot of work ends with a broken shell, but during that year A.Tenienė has learned to put the broken places together:
“I never throw dust when I record, it collapses on the table for me. I put the glue, pick up the crumbs very carefully and glue it. Sometimes you see, but still, the work is not thrown away. “
Create paintings from pike bones
Mrs. Aldona prints and etches eggs every year. “Musiet I’d get sick if I didn’t. This year I was on fire, I was doing it with waxes and I still etched two eggs. I promise to go more recorded ”, said the interlocutor.
In addition to printing eggs in various ways, A.Tenienė also amazes with his other works: he makes charming carps and creates paintings of fish: pike, herring, hake, bones.
Had a cooked pike on the table. There was a desire to examine it. I saw, what beautiful bones, what plastic!
“Mom used to say that the pica has in mind all the suffering of Christ. And so it happened once I had a cooked pike on the table. There was a desire to examine it. I saw, what beautiful bones, what plastic! I cleaned everything: nerves, blood. Good work because you have to do it very carefully, with needles. I had to sit barchatinę tablecloth, and started putting those white bones. You know, swords, daggers, crowns of thorns come out.
I found a frame, I covered it in black barchatu And I thought I’d move it all Of course, it is impossible to move the same, the dice are rolled and the ornament changes. With tweezers, the needles should be reapplied by applying a good PVA glue, as they are not greasy and adhere well. And then you guide that die where it disappears in the heart, it shrinks, that’s where you put it.
Photo from personal archive / Fishbone painting created by Aldona Tenienė
Now there is a problem: you can not catch small fish, I took those photos when I could. And anyway, I work really hard, semi upright, hunched over, in this age it’s already breaking your back. Also, where I am going to teach, I have myself on the wall, children, and I no longer need more ”, said A. Tenienė with a smile.
When asked if she is a popular artist, the woman laughed and said: “I have been a candidate all my life because my works do not meet the requirements of popular art. Let’s say that the pike bones, the barchat, have nothing to do with folk art. Eggs, only those with wax, etched, either.
Even though she calls me a popular artist, I have been a candidate for the Seimas all my life, but I am not chosen (smiling).
I make carp, but not traditional poultry and chickens. I have Karbauskius storks, some intertwined pigeons. In a word, I do not agree with those things. Even though she calls me a folk artist, I have been a candidate for the Seimas all my life, but I am not chosen (smiling). “
Ms. Aldona said that she did not survive because of that, all her talents, as she said, were of her own free will. And his works have been described as naive art by a professor at the Faculty of Arts. “I will be very happy to be so exceptional, I will be very proud,” said the interlocutor, who did not lack a sense of humor.
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