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Advanced Art Embellished Batik

Handout
Step 1: Find your inspiration
Research and look up the different types of
batiks.
What will your inspiration be?
Will it be realistic, abstract, or non-objective?
Will another artist inspire you? Will things in your
life inspire you? Will another culture or period of
time inspire you?
Step 2: Give your inspiration life
As you are researching/brainstorming create
thumbnail sketches of possible designs for your
batik.
Remember that thumbnail sketches are quick
interpretations of an idea.
Once an idea is picked draw a larger sketch (at
least 5x7) to lay out an exact plan using tracing
paper to separate the elements in your
composition.
Step 3: Finalize your project size, batik type, and a
colorscheme.
Do not get too big with your size of muslin the
fabric becomes harder to work with the larger it
becomes.
You will need to choose a type of batik: cheap,
simple, basic, or traditional.
You will need to make a list of all colors you will
need and list them from lightest to darkest.
You will also need to buy the wood to make your
stretched frame.
Step 4: Begin creating your project.

Redraw your batik composition onto the


stretched piece of muslin with pencil.
Wax any area that you want to stay white before
you begin adding any dye to the surface and add
any permanent marker lines.
Step 5: Batik dyeing process
Remind Miss Pralle to turn on the crock pot in the
morning that holds the beeswax/parafin mix.
Use gloves so your hands wont stain from dye.
You can use either a paint brush of different sizes
or a tjanting tool to apply your wax.
As you begin adding dye remember that the dye
will soak into the fabric and will not just sit on
the surface like paint does.
Remember to start with your lightest color which
can be left to dry or rinsed. Muslin must be dry to
apply either wax or dye.
When you are satified with an area you have
dyed you can wax over it to protect it from other
dye colors.
When finished the entire piece of muslin will be
waxed, crumbled, and put into its last dye bath
for as long and you want it dark.
Step 6: Remove Wax
Use a piece of old posterboard as a base.
Make three or four layers of newspaper onto of
the base.
Place batik on base and add four or five layers of
newspaper onto of the batik.
Iron out the wax and remove and replace
newspaper as needed until no wax or very little
wax remains.
Step 7: Add any other embellishments
This could be thread, yarn, jewels, beads, glitter
paint, even glitter fingernail polish.

Your CHOICE!
Step 8: Frame, Fill out Rubric, and Answer Journal
Prompts
Depending on size, batik can be matted in mat
board or stretched around a wood frame.
Also your CHOICE!!

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