The Burden Called Painting Eggs

Last Wednesday, the painting group occupied itself with painting hard-boiled eggs. I had planned to join in, but I was too busy painting inside the house—not inside as far as eggs are concerned, but with the walls. Now that the weather is getting better, I am starting to feel the urge to do more repairs, and the outside needs to be done too. The grass is growing higher and higher, which means it will soon be impossible to get through.

The fact that I didn't paint hard-boiled eggs last Wednesday doesn't really matter; after all, it also means that by the time Easter arrives, these eggs will be at least four days old. So, I boiled some eggs this morning and have just started painting them a bit with acrylic paint, and it is a huge disappointment. Let's just say the paint isn't sticking; quite a few coats will be needed. If you ask me, I would have been finished long ago if I had dyed the eggs with natural dyes and some vinegar in the water while boiling them. Maybe I should have degreased the egg carton with something first, but I am hesitant to do so because an egg carton is porous and anything you smear on it will definitely soak into the egg. To what extent these eggs are still edible is also questionable, but I will see that by the time they are peeled, which is in two days.

To be honest, I also have no idea what I will make with these eggs; maybe they should just be one color, although single-colored eggs are particularly suitable when you hide them for children. Incidentally, I don't really have a dining table either, so there is nothing left to set to decorate an Easter table. I would have had other items for that, though; admittedly years old, but still good.

Because it also takes forever for the eggs to dry, I drained the boiler in the meantime. This boiler has been idle for a few years and it is scheduled to be replaced. In the meantime, the power outlet is broken too, so that needs to be replaced first as well, and it would also be nice if the ceiling were painted before I install a new boiler. This boiler can be hung up, but I would prefer it to simply stand on a base, given that the walls of the house are built of sand. Draining the boiler was quite a hassle, by the way, but I managed it. Unfortunately, the drains also seem clogged now that they haven't been used for so long. What did surprise me, however, was the fact that the water from the boiler is quite clean; it doesn't look like it has been sitting in one rusty boiler for 2 years.

If anyone has a tip for painting the eggs, I would love to hear it. For now, I'm going to color four eggs first, and then I'll see if I can paint something on them with a fine brush. This is also a good practice run, because honestly, I mainly work with one brush: number 18, which is a flat one. I like being able to do as much as possible with just one brush, rather than having a whole arsenal of paintbrushes because otherwise I can't paint anything. Incidentally, this also means that I simply skip certain small things just because I can't make the details, or who knows, maybe I don't want to make them.

Materials used:

• six brown hard-boiled eggs;
• two toilet paper rolls that I cut into rings to serve as egg holders;
• a flat brush number 18 (who knows, I might use a fine brush number 1 or 0 later, but I don't know that yet);
• cheap acrylic pain, indeed, still the leftover green and the leftover orange without a brand and on it; and in addition,
• cheap acrylic paint from Van Bleiswijk: brilliant red #12 and Titanium white #81.

who knows an update will be posted before 🐣

_3-4-2026