It has been a while since I have done any pysanky in Illustrator. One design in a
YouTube animation that someone had sent me caught my eye. Here it is in a screen grab, which shows a novel (to my eye) pysanka design:
![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-epogYaw9sGg/T47crg-EFWI/AAAAAAAAAgc/qgaAbzkLXlw/s200/ladies.gif)
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-RL-xG_cvni0/T47dJWkYinI/AAAAAAAAAgo/8UuRTRM-ylo/s200/2Ladies.jpg)
I used the "place" command in Illustrator to lock this image down so that I could trace out the shapes of the dancers.
A couple of transforms to daisy-chain the dancers into rows, and then I made that grouping into a symbol.
![](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a_oM9Nq_Ajk/T47dskjS6YI/AAAAAAAAAg0/o3d0ZJh3ZNw/s320/7Ladies.jpg)
From symbol to egg, here is the final pysanka:
![](http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-95ngx--4jDM/T5AB4GPT4tI/AAAAAAAAAhM/xG-wZEdzKAc/s320/Ladies.jpg)
Although this is far from a typical pysanka motif, these dancers depicted here are a performing a rite of Spring known as
Vesnianky-hahilky.
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