20 best Easter egg painting ideas 2021

Start by mixing a few colors from your watercolor paints on a palette. Then apply clean water to the egg, followed by a few light strokes of watercolor where the egg is wet. Continue to wet different sections of the egg and brush the same color or a different color until you get the watercolor look you are looking for.

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You can either use a traditional Easter egg dyeing technique or paint for the background color. But when it’s time to add the points, you’ll want to invest in blown paint for a 3D effect.

With a fine point pen, paint over any design you want. We used brown and white here, but you can choose any color you want!

Nothing says spring like a cheerful gingham pattern. Use watercolor paints and a flat-tipped paintbrush, as well as paint in any custom colors you want, to achieve the look of egg white.

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This technique could not be simpler and the result is chic, modern and totally personalized. Use regular sticky letters to hide an initial in the center of your egg. Then cover everything with spray paint. When you remove the sticker, you see this letter in a bold negative space.

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Here’s a project for a steady hand: Use pens or fine-tipped paintbrushes in brown to paint a wicker basket on your egg. Fill this basket with small painted eggs. So beautiful. And so meta!

This painting technique creates a pretty and complicated result, but it’s actually quite easy to achieve. Just use stickers in any shapes you like to create the negative space effect after painting or staining the egg.

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Use a white paint pen to create a cross stitch look to showcase your initial or your family’s monogram on an Easter egg. This is a great idea for a personalized detail that you can place at every seat on the holiday table.

Fake wood, meaning faux wood, refers to the practice of mimicking the look of wood grain on any other form of support. Use a white paint pen to draw jagged lines and concentric circles on your egg to get the look. (And hey, even if it’s not so convincing fake wood, you will probably always get a nice design.)

Prepare a batch of eggs that look like fresh radishes from the farmer’s market by painting three-quarters of a puffed egg with pink paint. Finish the look by using hot glue to tie off white twine at the bottom as roots and green crepe paper wrapped at the top as a stem.

These fully bloomed eggs look so intricate, but the technique is simple: just paint tiny X’s for each flower, using a different color to paint dots in the center of each.

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Use a fine-tipped white paint pen to create the appearance of lettuce leaf veins on dyed green eggs. Skillful artists (with firm hands) can even achieve a optical illusion effect using this method.

Is there a cuter Easter egg to dot the girls’ brunch table? After painting the hair, draw on features like sunglasses, eyelashes, lips – whatever speaks to you!

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How are you really feeling about spring? Express it on your Easter eggs with this cheeky painting technique. Use yellow craft paint and black and red paint markers to craft a whole set of emoji eggs that are sure to wow the crowd.

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First, paint your entire egg with a coat of craft paint in the color of your choice. Then use stencils to add contrasting details that are perfectly on the holiday theme, like bunnies, carrots, flowers or chicks.

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Who couldn’t use a few? Turn your eggs into cold pills using pink acrylic paint, painter’s tape to hide the white half, and small black letter stickers to spell out the message.

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Traditional Scandinavian folk art features stylized flowers and elements of nature as well as geometric patterns for a soft and charming result. Use it as inspiration to make your own rosemary (that decorative painting style) on small egg canvases.

These amazing eggs evoke the endless cosmos… or maybe your favorite jeans. Whatever you see in them, you can achieve the look using blue nail polish using this simple and inexpensive technique.

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