TSC. The Sunday Challenge. April 16th 2017

TSC. THE SYMBOLS OF EASTER.
We're looking for eggs, rabbits/hares, Easter bonnets, hot cross buns, fish, palms etc..

Painting a small brown egg using water colours proved to be quite difficult. It started of as daffodils and a chick, which was unsuccessful. After various colour changes it ended up as dribbles of blue and white paint. The finished egg was put back into a saucepan of water where it floated, then the paint started to float away. Eat your heart out Fabergé. ;-)

Eggs were a traditional symbol of fertility and rebirth. The oldest tradition is to use dyed and painted chicken eggs, but a modern custom is to substitute chocolate eggs wrapped in colourful foil, or plastic eggs filled with confectionery such as chocolate.

Christel Ehretsmann, Gudrun, tiabunna, Valfal and 22 other people have particularly liked this photo

59 comments - The latest ones

Chris10 ^club

Really great colours and picture Amelia. Love it.

Happy Easter Days. Greetz, Christien.

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club

Thank you, Christien.

Greets, Amelia

7 years ago.

Jan

Lovely colourful Egg Amelia

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Jan

The colour changed several times throughout the day, Janano. ;-)

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club

Maybe it's supposed to represent the blue planet, Thomas. :-D

7 years ago.

Dida From Augsburg

Nice result

Happy Easter, Amelia!

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Dida From Augsburg

Thank you, Dida.
Happy Easter.

7 years ago.

Marie-claire Gallet

TOLL !!!!!!!!!!!!

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Marie-claire Gallet

Many thanks, Marie-claire. I had hours of fun doing this. ;-)

7 years ago.

Ste

A strikingly colourful shot Amelia and one most certainly liked by me

Best wishes ... Steve

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Ste

Today was cold, windy and a bit rainy, Steve, so I pottered about with my paint box and generally used my time 'profitably';. ;-)

7 years ago.

Nick Weall ^club

Surreal ~~~ A for effort :~) xxx

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Nick Weall ^club

It didn't look so good after a couple of minutes, Nick. The paint gradually slid off the egg and into the saucepan of water. Adrian was going to eat it at lunch time, but I was still fiddling with it until well into the afternoon - several colour changes late. ;-)
Did you enjoy the GP?

7 years ago.

Nick Weall ^club has replied to Amelia ^club

Yes thanks LGM the GP was a good un xxx

7 years ago.

Clickity Click

Oh this turned out very well Amelia, very abstract and interesting. Are we looking in or is something looking out? :)

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Clickity Click

I think some 'thing' is peering out at you from the photo, Chris, but don't get too alarmed. ;-)

7 years ago.

Clickity Click has replied to Amelia ^club

Oh thanks for the reassurance! :) I can rest easier now. lol

7 years ago.

H C

Beautiful colour and shot.

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to H C

Thank you, Harriet. I put the egg outside after it started to rain here. There is still some mottling on - but the brown of the shell is beginning to show through. Maybe I'll roll it down a hill tomorrow to crack the shell, and eat the inside.

7 years ago.

Gillian Everett ^club

Interesting idea and description, Amelia. Great artwork!

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club

Thank you, Gillian. The paint was just about running into the water which gibes a bluish tinge around the floating egg.

7 years ago.

Pam J ^club

This dedication really made me smile !!!

Wonderful !

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Pam J ^club

It made me smile a lot too, Pam. If a gauntlet is thrown down, one must simply pick it up. ;-)

7 years ago.

Jaap van 't Veen ^club

Stunning work.

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Jaap van 't Veen ^club

Thank you, Jaap. I spent a lovely Sunday with an egg, paints and a camera.

7 years ago.

PhLB - Luc Boonen ^club

thanks for sharing your troublesome artistic experiences; I like the result!

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to PhLB - Luc Boonen ^club

Thank you, Luc. The painting started off as something more conventional.

7 years ago.

Graham Chance ^club

Nice work Amelia. It makes a great abstract.

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Graham Chance ^club

This was the final shot, Graham. I tried lots of other things, but in the end I got almost back to the beginning if you look at the notes.

7 years ago.

Herbert_S

ein "magische Auge" - Bravo !!

s.G.Herbert

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Herbert_S

It's watching you, Herbert. ;-)

7 years ago.

Cämmerer zu Nau ^club

Interessantes Teil, - gute Arbeit, noch sehr österlich.

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Cämmerer zu Nau ^club

Many thanks. It may look as nice as a chocolate egg, but I won't eat it. ;-)

7 years ago.

Ulrich John ^club

Very nice, Amelia ! Good Morning !

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Ulrich John ^club

Thank you, Ulrich. I had an interesting Sunday, ;-)

7 years ago.

autofantasia ^club

One of the most creative contributions I'd say so far this week Amelia. It may not have turned out as you'd hoped, but I love the effect and the colours! :)

Reminds me too of hand painting hard boiled eggs as a child which we would then roll down the nearest steep hillside ... not sure if that was just a Scottish thing or not, but it was certainly fun. Kids today just don't know what they're missing out on - lol! ;)

7 years ago.

Jean has replied to autofantasia ^club

I remember hand painting and rolling eggs down a hill in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow but I don't think it was just a Scottish thing.

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to autofantasia ^club

I don't think it was just a Scottish thing, Paul; but when we moved to England in 1953, I was 12 then, and we never painted and rolled eater eggs there. It was simple fun, and of course sweeties were rationed!
Yesterday the kids in our village had a fine time painting eggs and rolling them down the church bank. Maybe it'll become an Easter tradition again. ;-)

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Jean

Did you have to eat the eggs after the painted shells had cracked, Jean? I never did - I don't really like eggs at all, but other folks did. They were at a premium in those days, and too good to waste. ;-)

7 years ago.

autofantasia ^club has replied to Amelia ^club

Be nice to think so Amelia! :)

7 years ago.

autofantasia ^club has replied to Jean

Doing it in Kelvingrove Park sounds like it must have been fun Jean! :)

7 years ago.

Jean has replied to Amelia ^club

Yes, I ate the egg- there only was one. It was not long after the war and rationing was still in force.

6 years ago.

Jean has replied to autofantasia ^club

The war had not long ended. I was five and it was the first Easter I remember. Don't ever remember rolling eggs again until I was in my sixties and out with the Ramblers. About forty adults rolled their decorated eggs while out on a hill walk

6 years ago.

Jean

Really beautiful. Much nicer than the chocolate ones.

7 years ago.

christel.k ^club

sehr kreative Arbeit, Amelia!

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to christel.k ^club

It's a lovely way to spend a dull and rainy Easter Sunday, Christel. ;-)

7 years ago.

Wierd Folkersma ^club

beautiful result and a nice picture too.

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Wierd Folkersma ^club

Thank you, Wierd. Not such a variety as you managed though!

7 years ago.

Sarah O' ^club

Hey dear Amelia, is this an Egg? in a mysterious kind of way, it seems like someone's eyeball !
Great color, how did this turn out? Ive always sooo loved to sit and color eggs with my 3 grand children. such fun... Hope you found the "Prize Egg" :) Best of wishes, Sarah

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Sarah O' ^club

It is an egg, Sarah, and it's keeping an eye on you! ;-)
Four of my grandchildren are probably too grown-up and sophisticated (for the moment) for this Easter tradition to be of any interest to them. The youngest one is away on holiday, so this sad egg remains in a saucer, unloved and unrolled down a hill. I enjoyed myself though. ;-)

7 years ago.

Clickity Click

Amelia, back again, I forgot to say that the egg in the pic with the duck dish, made me think of the British Union Jack. :)

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Clickity Click

Yes - it does, Chris. I didn't notice at the time as I was just letting the colours run down the sides of the egg. I'm so pleased that someone has taken time to look at the PiPs. ;-).

7 years ago.

Shuttering Yukon

this is truly fantastic Amelia, I never would have figured it was an egg in a sauce pan, I had all kids of things running through my mind.

7 years ago.

Amelia ^club has replied to Shuttering Yukon

I wonder what was going through your mind, Wendi? Adrian thinks this looks a bit ghoulish, but The Sunday Challenge must be worked on. I spent a good couple of hours with my box of paints and thoroughly enjoyed the time. It's better than looking out of the window at a cold and rainy Easter Sunday. ;-)

7 years ago.

Valfal

Very beautiful image, Amelia!

6 years ago.

tiabunna ^club

Well done and presented, Amelia.

6 years ago.

Gudrun ^club

I like the look of your painted eggs, the one in the PiP sports the Union Jack,-)

6 years ago.

Sarah O' ^club

Hey Amelia, I SEE THE PIPS now! :)) if the cursor is not on the shot we don't see the pip and so well. I didn't see the pips. and tho I am American, and have a red, white, and blue flag, I see your Union Jack now in the pip :)) AND you have a chick laying an egg and not a rabbit :)):))) hahaha! (remember my bunnie, eggs and pinestraw? ) :)))) Sarah

6 years ago.

Christel Ehretsmann ^club

mysterious first...
great !

6 years ago.

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