Recently this week our group had gone on a small trip in town to do a painting.. but not just any painting. This special form of painting is called 'Batik Painting' A method (originally used in Java) of producing colored designs on textiles by dyeing them, having first applied wax to the parts to be...
After waxing out the broder lines, colours are then added to the material, the wax acts as a protective border so unwanted colour doesn't pass over. Here are some beautiful examples of the final layout (:
Its fairly easy to blend colours together on the silky material and virtually any colour can be composed of.
As great as the vibrant colours look, it is just as fun to paint up. Soon i will be posting up a picture of our final design batik (:
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| A fellow batik professional at work |
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| Not so Professionals at work but our work turned out better then expected (: |
Good blog...
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