FTWClutch:22/Eggs

FTW Clutch 22/Eggs

1. Blinding Bold Egg

A skyscape of laden grey-blues dominates the shell of this moderate-sized egg -- streaked in one region with a more benign cast of azure. Thrusting up into the air from a blackish-green base, a blunt-tipped tower of darkness defies its earthbound origins, sere stipples of shaggy tree limbs flanking the odd spire to left and right. Ripping across the scene -- dividing it starkly in half from shell apex to nadir -- a jagged, crackling bolt of searing white tears the heavens asunder, arcing a live contact between heavens and earth.

Inspiration: Lighting! This weather phenomenon is more prevalent than all other storms combined, and often much more dangerous.
Credit: V'ryce

2. Dusty Days Egg

Dry ocher makes up most of the coloration of this squat egg, though hues of brown and black generate shadows that suggest the outline of a hold or hall as glimpsed from a distance. Woe betide the shadow hold, however, as encroaching upon its innocence is a lumpen hazy coalition of cloud-shapes crossing at the base-level of the egg, and that cloud seems to be constructed entirely of dust - but perhaps this is merely a collection sticky sand granules rather than the impending misery of a full-blown dust storm.

Inspiration: Dust storms
Credit: V'delin

3. Parhelion Pup Egg

Stretching across the equator of this smallish ovoid, thick yet wispy streamers of white trace lines across autumnal blue skies -- the latter crowning the egg's narrow top. Flaring to life amidst the scene is a near-blindingly incandescent orb of coruscating white, which mellows only slightly to cool yellow at its circumference. Equidistant from the main sphere, touching along both sides of the egg, a pair of lesser orbs flare to bright life -- connected by a hazy, arcing halo of muted rainbow hues.

Inspiration: SunDogs & Parhelia are atmospheric optical phenomenon primarily associated with the reflection or refraction of sunlight by small ice crystals making up cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Often, two sun dogs can be seen (one on each side of the sun) simultaneously. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog)
Credit: V'ryce

4. Sparkling Splendor Egg

Simplistic at first glance, this egg might well trick the eye into believing that this is the blandest on the sands. White. Just plain white. Its when viewed from the right angle that the complex beauty that compiles the composition of this ovoid becomes all too obvious. Dusted in a sprinkling of snowy white, this egg captures every bit of light with its intricate glittering that is unlike that of any other egg ever seen before in all of Pern's long history. Half-buried in the sand, the gleaming white rises like a little hillock freshly frosted with a wintry pillow of snowflakes, it looks lovely, if wholly out of place on the hot sands. White... but then again, in the right light-- could that be, gold?

Inspiration: Snow!
Credit: T'aren

5. Glimmering Lights Egg

Damply gleaming in the light, the slate-like upper surface of this egg looks like gray rain clouds, the silvery pin-striping effect over its green, green bottom half emphasizing the look of a spring shower. However, for all the gray is bleak-seeming, muting the colors below it, it does not dominate one end of the egg, the smaller one. There, the shell is bright, sunlit and golden, peeking through despite the rain.

Inspiration: When the sun is shining when it's raining, more colorfully known as the devil is beating his wife.
Credit: S'fox

6. Maleficent Maelstrom Egg

Foreboding tones of darkest green, black, and dirty brown roil over this large egg's shell from nadir to zenith - ragged and looming clouds racing, scudding with frenzied abandon. Twisting and whirling amidst rain-cloaked fractus, a long and debris-encased tube of inky midnight depends from a lowered, bowl-like formation - touching down amongst a rainswept landscape - obliterating all in its path.

Inspiration: Tornadoes spawned from mesocyclones are amongst the most deadly storms in the world!
Credit: Caitlyn

7. Strike Egg

Blackness wraps around almost all of this smallish egg. Hints of greater black masses can be seen with hints of deep indigo. Something creeps and is hinted at in those dark fathoms to suddenly erupt across one surface with jagged lines of white so vibrant it is almost violet. A hue that is closest to blue envelopes the coruscating jagged lines as they cross from top to somewhere along the bottom, the intense brightness burying itself in the sand.

Inspiration: The flash of lightning in the middle of the night from clouds so thick and black you can't tell midnight from cloud if you wanted too. A lightning strike seen out in the middle of the wilderness during a thunderstorm. So intense and pure it's blinding.
Credit: Danielle

8. On The Horizon Egg

The top begins in darkest midnight hue, creeping slowly towards a paler dawn. As it draws down, wrapping around the egg completely, hints of strawberry red and tangerine orange are highlighted with wisps of white. Then quite suddenly the brilliance of yellow, violet and pink swirl along the bottoms of more white and fluffy wisps. The farther down the large egg one goes the more the colors become vibrant and intense, picking out hues that are familiar to those who see a partly cloudy sunrise.

Inspiration: The beautiful and amazing sunsets and sunrises found in Oregon and along the coast
Credit: Danielle

9. Watery Tubes Egg

A slick wash of foamy blue-green cants from one sided of this smallish egg to the other, like a seacrafter drunkenly crossing the deck of his storm-tossed ship. Above, leaden skies seem to swirl with angry wind currents that touch down and cast up menacing fingers of seawater between ocean and sky. Around the surface of the egg these long tubes of grayish-green finally give up the ghost, leaving a faint hint of blue gleaming in the distance as hope for smoother sailing.

Inspiration: Water spouts - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterspout
Credit: P'draig

10. Impending Doom Egg

Ominous blankets of slate coat the surface of this ovoid. Drawing from an under-layer of deep blue, the smoke-shaded swirling mass of fluffy-looking wisps seem to draw in the light and blot it out with its gloom. Pewter highlights kiss across the otherwise monotonous coloring of the shell, though these spots of light are hardly hopeful, as the overall look of the egg is simply dreary and dismal. Snaking up from the base buried in the sand is a slash of yellow-tinged white that comes off looking nearly phosphorescent, the streak perhaps lending a clue to the mind's eye in sorting out just what the surface of this egg is reminiscent of: a gloom cloud coming to ruin a lovely day for nothing more than its own sadistic pleasure.

Inspiration: Gloom and doom clouds that mean rain!
Credit: T'aren

11. Fire In The Sky Egg

Bands of apple green ripple and pool, twisting across the surface of this inky ovoid shape. Intersected and diverging, they follow the same curve and as they bend, the color shifts, becoming more cyan in hue. A shimmery curtain of rose, ethereal and almost opalescent, coats the opposite side of the egg. Almost before your eyes, the translucent colors seem to twist and waver, as if they would disappear with the next blink.

Inspiration: Based on the aurora borealis, a phenomenon occurring usually in the polar zones when charged solar particles collide with the Earth's magnetosphere. Oxygen creates mostly green and red light, while nitrogen creates the blue and light red tones.
Credit: Samantia

12. Prelude to a Storm Egg

Odd is a good word for the look of this bland egg. Arranged with a base of green, slashed with browns, backed by cool sky blue rising to a topping of tuft of cream at its apex, this egg sits on the sand with an overwhelming sense of calm to its look. Where some eggs are textured to make it seem 'in action', this one is entirely placid and tranquil. The static of the scene laid out on the egg shell is almost eerie, and well enough to invite a sense of an egg in waiting for something to take it suddenly away from its extreme inaction to complete chaos.

Inspiration: This egg is dedicated to that moment of odd calm before a big storm hits.
Credit: T'aren

13. Fair Weather Friend Egg

Cheery yellow bathes this egg like sunlight on a warm summer day, sifting downward through tree branches to dapple the shell's surface with a watercolor pattern of white on deep grassy green. A splash of color along one side might speak of a blanket cast down under the tree with two shapes leaning into each other to converse in light and shadow.

Inspiration: Bright, clear, sunny summer days spent lazing around with a good friend on a blanket under a tree when school's out.
Credit: P'draig

14. Witch Lights at Dawn Egg

In the background, streaks of dusty purple and hazel streak this egg, creating a sort of hazy, smoking atmosphere. Near the base, murk lingers, a sludgy brown like too many paints mixed together that never achieved a true black. Burning above this sludge are plumes of a violent, electric blue color. At its core, it burns a hot, intense white. As it trails upwards, it dies out from blue, to purple, finally becoming a more natural shade of orange as the flames lick eagerly at the sun rising on the horizon.

Inspiration: Witch fire is an event that sometimes occurs when methane and other natural gas pockets in a swamp spontaneously combust. The gas usually burns off quickly without taking hold, but in times of drought, it can catch dry vegetation and burn for days.
Credit: Samantia

15. Inner Explosion Egg

This egg could almost be white, but for the faint golden sheen and hint of yellow in its brilliant depths. Up close, faint striations appear, jagged lines racing out from the center towards both the wider and smaller ends of the ovoid. Faint shadows give it depth, so that it almost appears to be exploding from within - incandescent in its fury.

Credit: Zahava