Balinese Egg Painting

Today's I would like to share my experience when I visited one of amazing place in Bali. As we know Bali has many kind of art like wood carving, gold and silver carving, stone carving, and painting. But is the most importance that make me interested to learn Balinese art are when I saw the local people showing how to paint beautiful design on the skin of egg. So I visit one of painter house there is location in Br. Gerih exactly, Batuan Village, sub-district of Sukawati, Gianyar regency. Here you will be assist by I Wayan Sadra, S.Pd and the others professional painters. He is good painter He made many kinds of crafts, such as : Balinese egg painting, egg carving, photo painting, shell painting, shell carving , etc. Besides making Balinese Painting and many crafts, I Wayan Sadra also can assist to teach how to paint on the canvas or on the egg.

Kind of egg

When I learn to make painting, we were using many kinds of eggs to be painted. We are using chicken egg, Bebek Bali egg, goose egg, cassowary egg and ostrich egg. Duck egg painting size used is approximately 4.5 cm until 5 cm. Goose egg painting using Javanese goose and swan eggs. Goose eggs are supplied from Java due to its difficult to find it in Bali. It size is approximately 10 cm. Cassowary egg painting is using Irian Jaya cassowary egg it size is bigger than goose egg, approximately 14 cm to 21 cm. Ostrich egg painting is using ostrich egg which directly supplied from Africa and Australia. Ostrich egg is the biggest egg from the others kind of eggs. It is approximately 19 cm to 22.5 cm. In addition I Wayan Sadra also accept orders to paint the Emu bird eggs and Alligator eggs.

Egg painting is an incredibly delicate and specialised art form requiring exquisite patience and skill. Not all painters, even the most gifted ones, have what it takes to paint on eggs. A visit to the Sadra family studio is a remarkable experience. There are always at least two or three family members sitting around and painting eggs, and as you watch, you marvel at how they could possibly paint such intricate detail on an egg, often having to support it in one hand while painting with the other.

There are hundreds of hand painted eggs on display of all sizes and hundreds upon hundreds of different designs and colour motifs, everything from traditional Balinese mythical characters to naturalistic flower, insect and animal drawings to whimsical portrayals of the Statue of Liberty, Eiffel Tower and much more. Make a egg painting it's so difficult but so fun, you can use your imagination and make a design before you give colours to the egg.

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