The first two photos show me demonstrating to the class, how to practice on a paper plate before going onto the egg.  You can see in the third photo, that I have pre-traced two egg shapes in pencil, as practice.  Then students continue to wax over the design and improvise on their own.  The purpose is to establish a comfort level with using the stylus and melted wax, before applying it to the raw egg. 

    I found an excellent book which has a wonderful selection of Drop-Pull patterns.  There are other egg projects, but hundreds of drop-pull patterns.  
     You can find it cheaper on ebay, but amazon.com also carries it.  I bought a used copy as I do with most pysanky books that I buy.  

Great Book of Egg Decorating 
by Brazia Buttafuoco & Dede Varetto 




For some reason, it also lists with the cover image below. 

If you are planning to do a demonstration a tip is to prepare a half-dozen or a dozen eggs beforehand.  Prepare them in different stages to show the audience: dividing the egg,
measuring out a design, first waxing covering White, second wax covering Yellow,
etc.  Your audience will certainly ask questions.  By having eggs prepared ahead of time, it is valuable to being able to answer a question with an example in hand.   It is also advisable to have at least three eggs that are completely waxed and dyed, so that you can demonstrate taking off the wax with a cloth and candle.  This breathtaking moment will speak louder than any explanation.  Often I will remove only a section of the wax on a completed egg, and save another section for another audience, etc.   But if you have enough completed eggs then you are good to remove all wax.  
The photograph below shows the prepared batch of eggs for a demonstration of Lemko style
pysanky. In the left column you see pencil guide lines on each egg; middle column, I have done wax on white and at the demo will place each one into a dye color; right column, I will write over the yellow and then dye it a second time. All of these eggs need to be dyed, then another wax, then dye, then removal of wax with a candle.  Lemko eggs usually have one or two colors only and the wax is removed in the end. CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW

In this blog you will see a pdf file to download, that has some suggestions of color combinations and an example of a Lemko Drop Pull pysanky for each. Most Lemko Drop Pull designs incorporate less colors than other pysanky traditions.   Typically, it will start with White plus one color; yet they  can be rendered beginning with White plus up to three additional colors.  The choice is yours. It is important to note that Lemko Drop Pull pysanky remove the wax at the end of the process, unlike Lithuanian pysanky that apply colored waxes and leave them on the egg. 
As you see in previous blogs, the Lemko Drop Pull pysanky are made with a hot liquid bees wax and were traditionally applied with a pin head instead of a kistka.  The pin places a drop of wax on the egg and then the drop is pulled sideways making wonderful strokes of wax.  The strokes are arranged into traditional patterns. 

I have made a pdf file of Lemko style Pysanky strokes that you  can print  out.  Before writing on the egg, irst practice the design on the back of a paper plate as you see in the photo. 
  Please not that the last page of the print out is not Lemko style but Sorbian, so you can ignore this.

My grandmother, Euphrosina ("Rozia" Laszenick) Taras, whom I never got to
meet was a Lemko, a distinct Ukrainian ethnic group,  from Szczawnik, (Austo-Hungarian empire). She emigrated to the US at age 18 on March 4, 1899, with $2.00 in her pocket.  
I have always wanted to work with Lemko designs.  These egg designs  are different from other Ukrainian pysanky designs.  They are simpler, using molten wax and a stylus that transfers the drop of wax onto the egg, and then is pulled to form a tail to the drop.  Generally two or three color dyes are only used.  Lemko Drop Pull eggs are a creative process, because there are hundreds of permutations of designs that can be created on the egg. 
Here are a few of the eggs that I have written and also a photo of the wax pot and stylus that I use.