Today, I’m channeling my inner impressionist with a painterly Easter DIY that is easy as pie. This is so much more fun than dyeing eggs…
Here’s what you’ll need: hard boiled eggs, acrylic craft paint, a paint palette, and a paint brush
To make your own brushstroke eggs: Choose a color scheme, pour out a small amount of each color, and mix paints to get the perfect colors (if you don’t want an ‘out of the tube’ color). Using a quick brushstroke, add short lines of paint (just like polka dots but in brushstroke form) over the entire egg, leaving space between the strokes to add more later. Set aside while it dries and start another egg the same way. Once the first round of paint is completely dry, add a second color of brushstrokes, wait for it to dry, and then add your third and final color.
Double the size of your brushstroke lines by painting two or three short strokes right next to each other, to make more of an abstract polka dot egg (like the eggs on the top left below).
Concept, photography, and styling by Brittni Mehlhoff from Paper & Stitch
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@henryhappenedCute and Easy DIY..
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janika RHaha. Thanks Lindsay.
papernstitchYep, I can’t go back to just dying easter eggs every again! Too cute!
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Lindsay ScheeleHaha Kelly! The Easter egg Queen does have a nice ring to it. 🙂
papernstitchI am dubbing you the Easter egg QUEEN! The Easter Bunny has some serious competition up in here.
Kelly @ Studio DIYThanks ladies. 🙂 Making me smile over here.
papernstitchLove these!
Chelsea C.I like the colour scheme you used…so light and friendly 🙂
SusannThese eggs look so cute. Great idea. I extremely like the brown one with the “dots”. Great colours
ÄnnaThanks Mere. I got the egg cups at World Market.
papernstitchThese are the cutest! I can imagine a cute leopard print version of these! Where did you get those perfect egg cups?
Mere // Not Merely Livingthis is SO cute!
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