The Burden Called Painting Eggs
Last Wednesday, the painting group occupied itself with painting hard-boiled eggs. I had planned to join in, but I was too busy painting inside the house—not inside as far as eggs are concerned, but with the walls. Now that the weather is getting better, I am starting to feel the urge to do more repairs, and the outside needs to be done too. The grass is growing higher and higher, which means it will soon be impossible to get through.
The fact that I didn't paint hard-boiled eggs last Wednesday doesn't really matter; after all, it also means that by the time Easter arrives, these eggs will be at least four days old. So, I boiled some eggs this morning and have just started painting them a bit with acrylic paint, and it is a huge disappointment. Let's just say the paint isn't sticking; quite a few coats will be needed. If you ask me, I would have been finished long ago if I had dyed the eggs with natural dyes and some vinegar in the water while boiling them. Maybe I should have degreased the egg carton with something first, but I am hesitant to do so because an egg carton is porous and anything you smear on it will definitely soak into the egg. To what extent these eggs are still edible is also questionable, but I will see that by the time they are peeled, which is in two days.
To be honest, I also have no idea what I will make with these eggs; maybe they should just be one colour, although single-colored eggs are particularly suitable when you hide them for children. Incidentally, I don't really have a dining table either, so there is nothing left to set to decorate an Easter table. I would have had other items for that, though; admittedly years old, but still good.
Because it also takes forever for the eggs to dry, I drained the boiler in the meantime. This boiler has been idle for a few years and it is scheduled to be replaced. In the meantime, the power outlet is broken too, so that needs to be replaced first as well, and it would also be nice if the ceiling were painted before I install a new boiler. This boiler can be hung up, but I would prefer it to simply stand on a base, given that the walls of the house are built of sand. Draining the boiler was quite a hassle, by the way, but I managed it. Unfortunately, the drains also seem clogged now that they haven't been used for so long. What did surprise me, however, was the fact that the water from the boiler is quite clean; it doesn't look like it has been sitting in one rusty boiler for 2 years.
If anyone has a tip for painting the eggs, I would love to hear it. For now, I'm going to colour four eggs first, and then I'll see if I can paint something on them with a fine brush. This is also a good practice run, because honestly, I mainly work with one brush: number 18, which is a flat one. I like being able to do as much as possible with just one brush, rather than having a whole arsenal of paintbrushes because otherwise I can't paint anything. Incidentally, this also means that I simply skip certain small things just because I can't make the details, or who knows, maybe I don't want to make them.
Materials used:
- six brown hard-boiled eggs;
- two toilet paper rolls that I cut into rings to serve as egg holders;
- a flat brush number 18 (who knows, I might use a fine brush number 1 or 0 later, but I don't know that yet);
- cheap acrylic paint, indeed, still the leftover green and the leftover orange without a brand and on it; and in addition,
- cheap acrylic paint from Van Bleiswijk: brilliant red #12 and Titanium white #81.
who knows an update will be posted before 🐣
3-4-2026
The eggs on the cover are quite amusing, but the last one is exquisite, beautiful.
We don't have this custom here, although, being so quick to imitate foreign customs, there are places that advertise egg-painting workshops.
I'm very curious to know what happened to the eggs, whether they were edible or not. I seriously doubt it if they weren't refrigerated, which I suppose wouldn't make sense anyway.
Los huevos de la portada son muy graciosos, pero el último es de lujo, bello.
Aquí no tenemos esta costumbre, aunque como somos demasiado imitadores de costumbres foráneas, por ahí hay lugares donde anunciaban talleres para pintar huevos.
Tengo una gran curiosidad por saber qué pasó con los huevos, si fueron comestibles o no, en verdad lo dudo si no estaban bajo refrigeración, lo cual supongo tampoco tendría sentido.
Hard boiled eggs remain good over a very long time. I did not store them in the fridge. I also don't with raw eggs. Even stores will never store eggs in a fridge. You just found them on the shelf. Always put them with the smaller point downwards and never wash them after you took them away of the chicken or bought them.
I made an egg salad out of the boiled eggs. The eggs were fine and not a tiny spot if paint was on the egg, unlike what we see if we paint it with natural colours or tablets ment to paint eggs with.
It is common to paint and hide those eggs and eat them for at least several days.
In my entire life I never had a bad egg. With or without paint each one was edible.
I don't put them on the fridge either, or wash them, I've been told no to do that since a few years.
It's good to know that boiler eggs are still edible after days, I wouldn't have thought so. I love salads with boiled eggs.
Peety for the art of the shell that is now lost.
You can easily boil eggs for a week or longer (hard boiled). In the old days eggs were also boiled and kept in salt water (without scale)
It kept them good for at least one year or longer. I don't like those salty eggs. I tried it years ago.
I still have the photos, even if the shell peeled off (you know the frequently said: Oh my God they killed Kenny!)
Comic 👇
So cute!
I remember the red eggs we used to have for our birthday, they'd always add some vinegar to the coloring.
That is what we always did, but this is done with acrylic paint. No idea what the eggs will look like. I will figure that out in one or two days
I have another one.
Have you figured it out by now?
I added the pictures so you can see what they looked out in the end.
Yesterday I cracked them and used them for egg salad. They were all good, edible and without a single spat of paint. It did took me four days to paint though. A bit too long to my taste.
At least those boiled eggs didn't crack and the color didn't seep in. Nothing is wasted. But 4 days is really too long. I mean it's fine for any other art but certainly not for this.
The last egg looks nice.
Thank you.