These actually were the earliest ones made, as you can tell from the more elaborate designs.

hard boiled eggs, dye, wax, 18apr22; sony ILCE-7c, sony 90mm macro, f/4.5, 1/160 sec, ISO 50, godox 6000 flash & triger, 1/4 power 18apr22; cropped.

For the egg on the right, you can see I was fingerpainting with the dye, as well as some ‘lite’ (potassium based) salt. Not super exciting, but certainly the most vivid I managed in the red range, and the dye only somewhat peeled, as you can see in the egg on the left (upper left part).

View 2, otherwise as above. Click for full size.

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