The Illustrated Egg
Handmade Cultural Art She learned Japanese embroidery (sashiko and temari) while living and working in Japan.
About the Artist:
The Illustrated Egg is Cydette Marshall, artist and craftswoman with formal education in medical art, medical computer imaging, maxillofacial prosthetics, painting, and printmaking. Born and raised in Hawaii, she learned Hawaiian featherwork from feather master Paulette Nohealani Kahalepuna and Paulette’s daughter, Mele Kahalepuna Chun. Always a sponge for work that involves pa
13/08/2024
❤☀️It only occurred to me today that I didn't post the completed ! ❤
13/08/2024
❤☀️It only occurred to me today that I didn't post the completed ! ❤
01/06/2024
❤Process... ❤
28/04/2024
🤙👀❤Someone asked me to make something beautiful for them, and I am sure gonna try!
28/04/2024
🦋🐛Someone asked me to make something beautiful for them, and I am sure gonna try!
28/04/2024
🌴Someone asked me to make something beautiful for them, and I am sure gonna try!
28/04/2024
🥚❤Winding down season at The Illustrated Egg with these and heading into requests. ❤
28/04/2024
🥚❤More to keep the hands busy at The Illustrated Egg! ❤
28/04/2024
🥚❤Fun with geometric patterns on recently---simple and yet not simple? ❤
10/04/2024
❤🥚Eggs for , for ! at ! ❤
10/04/2024
❤🥚Eggs for , for ! at ! ❤
10/04/2024
❤🥚I'm old school, and still use a candle to make my .
10/04/2024
❤🥚Duly covered in wax and dye (Including my very black thumb!)! (See next post for the removal.)
10/04/2024
❤🥚Loved working on this for Easter season.❤🥚(See next post for the full waxup!) ❤
04/03/2024
🤹♀️❤😊What you do while waiting for flights at airports...
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04/03/2024
🤹♀️❤😊Simple and yet not simple?
04/03/2024
🤹♀️❤A collector asked me to recreate on 4-inch balls a few designs I did some years ago. What do you think?
02/01/2024
❤It's Temari Tuesday at !
25/12/2023
A HUGE year-end THANK YOU! Since 2002, The Illustrated Egg has been visited by customers from 100 countries and territories, and since 2015 we have met more of you via our online presence and shop! We’ve loved seeing you wearing our creations, gifting them to loved ones, perpetuating culture, and sharing your ‘ohana and adventures with us! Mahalo nui for your kind words, and wonderful, supportive reviews. We look forward to creating more items in the coming year! With gratitude, we wish everyone peace, warmth, light, Aloha, and Happy Holidays! --- Cydette Marshall at The Illustrated Egg
Our Story
About the Artist:
The Illustrated Egg is Cydette Marshall, artist and craftswoman with formal education in medical art, medical computer imaging, maxillofacial prosthetics, painting, and printmaking. Born and raised in Hawaii, she learned Hawaiian featherwork from feather master Paulette Nohealani Kahalepuna and Paulette’s daughter, Mele Kahalepuna Chun. Always a sponge for work that involves patience, discipline, and attention to detail, she learned the craft of pysanky (decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs dyed using a wax-resist process) from Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and Romanian immigrants. She learned Japanese embroidery (sashiko and temari) while living and working in Japan. Each piece she crafts is one-of-a-kind, hand-made, with a deep love and respect for the cultures from which they are sourced.
The Illustrated Egg's Shop Story:
Moving With The Times: From Farmer's Market Booth to E-Storefront!
Owner/artist Cydette Marshall hatched The Illustrated Egg in 2002 as an outdoor art booth in the Gresham, Oregon Saturday Farmer's Market, and as a member of the Larch Mountain Country Artisans. The booth sold Cydette's hand-crafted Ukrainian Easter eggs (pysanky), botanical watercolor paintings, and pen-and-ink drawings. Over the following decade, The Illustrated Egg turned its focus to expanded egg-centric and bird-centric culturally inspired art forms: Hawaiian featherwork (lei hulu, humu papa, and hand-held kahili), Ukrainian pysanky, feathered basketry, egg tempera painting in the tradition of mische technique and American Realism, ethnic Ukrainian embroidery, Japanese sashiko, and temari needlework. With the growth and increasing shopper-friendliness of e-commerce, Cydette and The Illustrated Egg turned to online retail to reach a wider customer base for the crafts of these beautiful cultures and traditions, paintings, drawings, and mixed media creations, and opened its first e-storefront in 2015.
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