Pisanka!

[kiya]

For a number of reasons most of which I don't feel like going into, I've been occupying myself with trying to design pisanki. For additionally large numbers of reasons, I've been trying to make the design fairly simple (but more or less within traditional design specs).

So the result, in black-and-white, of all this poking about, seems to be:


The symbols involved are the divided circle (polarity), the invected line (meeting of opposites), the saw/wolf's tooth, (fire|water, cleansing, loyalty, wisdom, teaching), and grain (fertility, abundance, and looking pretty).

The base colour of the pisanka is black (or, given the nature of the pisanka-making process, the top colour). I'm sort of chewing on what colours to do for the rest of it, given the constraints of what I'm doing with it -- I'm feeling slightly constrained. The circle and its dividing line ought be white, I think; the grain yellow or orange; I might do the halves of the circle green and brown; the line white, the wolves' teeth red, and the spaces between them blue? No, that doesn't work right. Possibly green? Possibly purple? Maybe one blue and one green? Damned if I know. . . .

Anyway. That's today's obsession.