Thankyou again to everyone who has commented so far. It's much appreciated.
This week I was a little stumped, and ended up defaulting to my University of Google for ideas. But it wasn't until Lukas (our lovely Polish neigbour) came round for his Easter supply of eggs for him and his daughter to paint, that I came up with this idea.
Negatives aren't in strict order because of the way I scanned them, but when I took 3 & 5 I realised I had the shot I wanted. I quite liked frame 6 which I may revisit, frame 8 was an accidental double exposure and 9 & 10 were poor chicken shots. Ilford Pan F is an ISO 50 film and with a max aperture of f/3.5 on the lens, I was always going to struggle with handheld chicken shots.
So this was the original black & white image, which I then printed out and hand coloured (hence the iPhone shot in the main thread). The only thing I'm unhappy about is the strange reflection at 6 o'clock which spoiled the image for me. It adds a certain wabi-sabi-ness though so it gets to stay without a couple of annoying hours in PS trying to fix it.
I printed it out to A3 on matt paper, then set to work with colouring pencils.
These are the "painted" Easter eggs I was trying to get to. In terms of realising my vision, this is what I wanted to achieve, so it was a success for me, and the first "52" image that has gone on the wall. It made my wife smile too, which is no mean feat!
The texture of the paper has given the eggs a texture that wouldn't ordinarily be there, and using the very non-egg-like colours has made the image a bit more surreal.
Kept me out of trouble on a Friday afternoon/evening!