by Tina Brand | Jan 10, 2017 | News
Festivals It was just over a year ago that we finished creating “Into the Ovoid: An Ovella” and since then I’ve been entering festivals. A lot of festivals, as long as the submission fees are less than $ 20. Being cheap lands me in lesser tier...
by Tina Brand | May 16, 2016 | News
Into the Ovoid was accepted at Athens ANIMFEST 2016 in Athens Greece. It screened in the Experimental category in mid-April. It did not receive an award, but still… Into the Ovoid was also accepted for inclusion at Flying Frame Film Festival in Simpson,...
by Tina Brand | Apr 26, 2015 | News
It was a fine, sunny day and we had a good turnout yesterday at Simmons Hall. As people entered the theater, they smelled beeswax from the candles we had burning. Beeswax is such a distinct fragrance in making pysanky that I felt it needed to be part of...
by Tina Brand | Apr 24, 2014 | News
THANK YOU does not begin to express my feelings! I’m shaking with delight that we are now at 108% funded, thanks to the majorly generous pledge from John and Ellen Essigmann. Yesterday the magnets and postcards order arrived, and next week I plan to start...
by Tina Brand | Apr 21, 2014 | News
Check out the article online! The article includes some nice pictures, like this one where I show the reporter an egg that contains no straight lines. The effect makes the otherwise fairly traditional pattern appear to quake. It’s kind of amazing that this...
by Tina Brand | Feb 26, 2014 | News
The process is wax resist. The colors are determined by the dyes. The patterns are sometimes determined by the egg shape (by no means precisely symmetrical even on the z axis). But mostly I see things in the world or in my mind’s eye, and off...