Whilst at Art in Action I took part in one of the numerous classes which are part of what makes Art in Action a special event. I had a go at Batik. Not actually having a clue what Batik was before signing up meant I was rather thrown in at the deep end.
Batik is basically a painting technique on fabric which uses wax. The fabric is dyed and wax is put on to the fabric and the areas where wax has been added the fabric resists the dye. This can be done over many layers on the fabric. Personally I really didn't have much concept of how it would work and what effects could be achieved and so I really just tried a few different ways of adding the wax in order to experiment.
You can see my graphic (and slightly garish) attempt! Not terribly artistic but it was interesting to see what could be done with Batik. I'd love to give it another go but I think that you really have to think before hand exactly where you want colour and where you need wax.
The teacher was Sarah Tucker you can see what can really be done with Batik in her work below. Pretty impressive!
1 comments:
I've done batik before and found it incredibly hard to control the wax so I think you've done really well! If it were mine it would be covered (and I mean covered!) with unintentional blobs...
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