I was pleased at getting the opportunity of having a go at the art of batik in our textile art class last Thursday. It's a relatively simple exercise although getting it quite right is something that needs works. Never the less I really enjoyed trickling the hot wax in mindless patterns over my piece of fabric, then painting over the piece with fabric ink and repeating the process some two or three times more before ironing the wax away revealing the finished design. I realised that I was working with no plan when it came to creating the patterns. Instead I almost thoughtlessly just let the wax loose over the fabric. I think I had decided that I wouldn't really know if I'd made a mistake till the exercise was over anyway and it's true that I am more fond of the outcome of some of my pieces over the others but I'm not sure if I could say what I did right or wrong just yet.
Here are my designs.
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