Drawing a perfect easter egg | TheFruitAndFlowerBasket TV
In spring, during Easter, eggs are everywhere as a symbol of fertility, the new beginning. Many like to paint eggs beautifully. Unfortunately, egg shells are very fragile and real chicken eggs are perishable, so here is a tip on how to put eggs on paper and find a meditative calm and serenity by coloring eggs.
An egg has beautiful curves. It is not circular. It consists of various circular lines, which merge seamlessly into each other: a semicircle, two double circles with a diameter of one and a quarter circle with a much smaller diameter. Anyone who has taken care in mathematics lessons knows that two circle lines merge beautifully at a point where they share a common tangent. Tangents are straight lines that touch a circle only at one point, they are at right angles to the radius or diameter. That is radius or diameter of the two circles must be superposed at this point. In the picture with the chick in the egg, the tangents form the "house"? around the egg.
The centers of the circular lines, which make up a well-proportioned egg, form a right-angled, isosceles triangle, the shape of a geodesic triangle, as we know it from math lessons.
The semicircle is drawn around the zero point of the geodetic triangle, with a radius around all three corners of the geodetic triangle. (Remember the sentence of the Thales: all triangles in the semicircle are right-angled).
The two eighth circles are drawn around the two lower corners of the geodesic triangle, with twice the radius of the semicircle. So the complete base of the Geodreieck is the radius.
The quadrant is drawn around the top of the geodesic triangle. Unfortunately, the radius does not have such a simple length here. (According to Pythagoras 2h-h? 2, where h is the height of the geodetic triangle or the radius of the semicircle). But that does not matter, you just stabbed the compass into the top of the Geodreieck and sets the compass on a radius that he meets both eighth circles each in the extension of the outer edges of the Geodreieck.
Once you have understood how such an egg is constructed, and drawn it once with compass and ruler, then it is sufficient to draw the important points and lines in pencil and you manage to draw the egg even freehand. Always hold your hand in such a way that the wrist is approximately where you would stab with the compass. Then the sign movement follows the natural movement of the wrist. Always turn the paper accordingly. Freehand drawing leads to images that are slightly irregular but well proportioned and therefore appear alive and harmonious at the same time.
Once the outline of the ice has been drawn, you can erase the guides and paint the egg nicely, for example according to the ideas of the Zentangel. This is an idea originating from the USA of the meditative and creative drawing. There are many suggestions in the internet and in the book trade, how one can create beautiful surfaces or three-dimensional bodies. For me it's the ideal mix of planning, concentration, creativity and freehand drawing. You can listen to music, listen to stories or just enjoy the creative silence and enjoy the work of his hands. Many a centennial evolved alongside my transcripts of lectures or long discussions.
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