Friday 22 April 2016

Batik




Leah
Have you captured the beauty of the rock pool creature that you observed?
Yes.  Someone took a photo at the rockpools of the cat's eye so I  looked at the photo carefully and for a long time to make sure that I was going to draw it properly.  I captured that it had a big eyepiece near the side and that it had a big spiral on the outside of the shell with little scratch marks near the eye.

How difficult was it to transfer the patterns from your observational drawing to your Batik?
Really difficult because the hot wax was so runny and it wasn’t getting on the paper in time before I could start drawing. It was dripping out of the Tjanting before I could draw on my cloth.


Sketching the Cats Eye


Wednesday 13 April 2016