Mariusz Dubiel has spent 15 years mastering the art of decorating Easter eggs by copying Renaissance religious paintings onto boiled eggs using only a paper knife and paint. He first boils the eggs with onion skin to color them brown, then scratches patterns and images of the Madonna or Christ onto the eggs' delicate surfaces before painting them. Dubiel believes the decorated eggs are meant to evoke emotions like sadness, joy, and hope, and can convey faith in God in this unique artistic medium.

1. The Art of
Decorating Eggs

2.  Taking the Polish
folk tradition of
decorating Easter
eggs to a whole new
level- Mariusz
Dubiel has never
attended art school,
but his copies of
religious
Renaissance
paintings onto these
most delicate of
canvases are
breathtaking.

3.  Dubiel’ s main theme
are images of the
Madonna or Christ. He
has been decorating
eggs for 15 years, and
has been become a
master of the art.

4.  The eggs are first
boiled in hot water
with onion skin to
give them an even,
brown color.

Patterns are then
scratched onto the
surface with a paper
knife, before
painting can begin.

5. But it’s not only about the
paintings, says the artist:
“It’s not just about the
aesthetics, the colors or
the fact that they are
pretty. That’s not the most
important thing. What
matters are emotions. They
are supposed to bring
sadness, joy, hope. This is
my message, that nowadays
faith in God can be shown
in this particular way, not
only through paintings but
also in the structure of an
egg”