We had a short tutorial with Ms Lisa to show her our ideas for the batik trip we're having the next day, and so after a lot of ideas.... we finally had a theme set for us. As planned, we went for a more symbolic theme for our ideas. and for the bigger theme that ties the 4 individual batik (or members), it'll be about the old disney characters.
Mine = snow white
Sam = Beauty and the Beast
Denny = Aladdin
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Tuesday, 30th April 2013,
we went for our Batik Trip!
And we've gather at the Student Life Centre before boarding the bus
3 monkeys excited to do some Batik.
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At Jadi Batek!
we were introduced to professionals who were busying away with their batiks.
It was mesmerising to see their hands move so quickly and so graceful.
In this photo, the man is using a Canting, a traditional tool where it is made to handle hot boiling wax without causing burns to the artist.
this is what a Canting looks like.
The snout at the end of the Canting is for hot wax to flow consistently onto the fabric used.
THe handle is for the artist to hold to avoid touching the hot wax.
So, the wax is used to basically line the desired pattern, to make it easier to colour it with paint,
The incredible thing about using wax is that, it'll stop the paint from bleeding out into a different region of the cloth.
As shown here, the different colours are separated and are cleanly coloured.
After a few process of paint drying, fabric washing, and dying again.
The wax will come off leaving a clean outline of where the wax was before.
So this was a stretch that one of the artists was working on.
Then, it was our turn to start doing work.
We were shown the table that had all the colours under the sun.
A strong reminder to be careful when handling the wax.
And so we began to sketch our design on to the stretch of silk.
Canting was personally tough to do. And so i had one of the professionals to help me make sure i was doing it right.
Abang helping me thicken the lines to avoid paint from bleeding.
All waxed out :D
And so come the fun bit of batik!
PAINTING
Me, looking at Kush who snapped a photo out of the blue -,-
mine
ajiem
And so after painting.....
this is how it is, before the long process of drying, washing and drying.
The colourful colours on my batik is to mimic the pattern of stain glass found in churches and such.
The lively surrounding,
was taking a panoramic photo, unfortunately ashley moved into the shot. right before the last frame. and so her lower body wasnt in the shot. HAHHAHAHAH
After leaving Jadi Batek
we went to have a much deserved lunch!
Ajiem fooling around with oranges.
And on the ride home......
A BUNCH OF SLEEPYHEADS....
AWWWWWWWW
it was soooo much fun. and tiring. but i learnt a valuable lesson today.
I learnt about the beauty of traditional art. I learnt how to handle a canting.
I learnt how to be creative, adding your own elements, even to a traditional art craft like Batik.
Most of all, i learnt how to have fun :)
THANKS MS LISA.
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