#cat-snake

I feel the need to share this badly drawn picture of what my dream called a snake

His name was Chris

Basically he had a cat head but the nose was elongated to kinda fit with a snake and it had a snake body but paws idk

It was also fluffy

And had snake eyes

finally dug some pictures out of my dying laptop of the pysanky my mom and i used to make. these are my favorites of the many dozens we made, specifically circa 2009-10. all are fairly traditional rusyn wax designs (though the colors maybe less so).

i included the last picture to show how we made them - also highly non-traditional, just a flat pin stuck into a pencil and dipped in hot wax. the trick is to get the wax just the right temperature so that it doesn’t cool too fast as you draw the lines, and to hold the pin at just the right angle so the lines taper perfectly. the simplest way is to draw the designs in clear wax on the white egg and then dye it, but we also sometimes experimented with adding crayons to color the wax, and got more advanced by doing multiple dye layers (best with an ultimately black egg).