General Interest - Bad Kitty! Cat Knocks Over Carved Eggshell During Artist Interview

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$400.	300	Artist	KANNAPEL	The	and	begins	carve	connects
continuous	don't	done	drill	eats	eggshells	is	it	lace	layer
like	ostrich	them	then	this	up	when

Tina Kannapel cuts and shapes eggshells with a dental and a steady hand. TINA KANNAPEL: "Eggs are a arch. And because an eggshell is a continuous arch, has a lot of natural strength. You will see where Ive taken out so much that it looks lace. And the whole, the whole trick to that having regular connections between the different pieces of the , so the eggshell stays intact." Tina Kannapel carves, sculpts sells about 1,600 eggshells a year. TINA KANNAPEL: "The eggshell is very hard ---- it's like china." She with designs printed on paper .... TINA KANNAPEL: "And is my file, for designs ." .... and then them to the eggshell. Tina Kannapel has more than designs. Her three cats watch as she works. TINA : "'Theyll walk all around the carved eggshells and they bother them at all ---- in fact, he's loving . Say ''I love eggshells.' Whoops!" After the carving is , the eggshell is cleaned, first with warm water and bleach. TINA KANNAPEL: "What the bleach does is it all of the organic material in the eggshell and it's completely sterilized, there won't be any bubbles come ." One of her eggshells can sell for up to "This is an emu eggshell, it has three layers. outside is such a dark green it looks black. layer underneath that is teal or blue, and the underneath that is a paper thin white and I between the three layers." I'm Shirley Griffith.

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