Art and Design A comprehensive guide for creative artists - Aaltodoc

When wax dissolves into liquid form, pick a sizeable sisal
brush that is harmonious with the apparent detail as it may
be seen on the sketch.
Slowly by slowly, dole out hot wax to feel up all the parts
that you regard—to represent areas for—direction or
source of light. In the meantime, the process of waxing
and application is habitually determined by the nature of a
planned design or task.
The more you add wax at a beginning stage, the brighter
the results you will finally be able to achieve. Balance wax
distributions throughout and liken every detail of the
spillage (of hot wax) with the specified source (direction) of
light.
Generally, at this stage any mistake done is irreversible.
Mix a small spoon of salt; it fixes colouring dyes into the
fibers of the fabric—with a dilute colouring dye of your
choice in a separate container, add enough water, then
spread the attained mix all over the surface of the batik.
Also, the colouring dyes used on batiks are added in various
ways or stages—appropriate to particular circumstances;
starting from lighter (usually dilute) to (strong) darker.
Occasionally, a creative artist can use monochrome colours
alone or primary colours as red, yellow and blue.
Some types of dyes are used after boiling then on fire, while
others are used directly. Belfer (1992, 52) warns, “Although
some dyes are nontoxic, many are manufactured with
substances considered to be toxic if they are taken into the
body even with natural dyes.” Be very cautious.
Wet or soaked batik artworks have got to be taken out
to dry at each stage of adding colouring dyes. After that,
repeat the same process of waxing, stage-by-stage over and
to the further side of the already waxed areas.
As a matter of fact, batiks appear nice with cracks—caused
by covering the entire artwork surface with a thick solid
layer of hot wax added by spreading wax indiscriminately all
over an already finished batik. Wait for wax to dry and then
break layers of wax into cracks.
Use a sponge to add a very strong colouring dye of your
choice into the cracks by squeezing hard, for dyes to
penetrate thoroughly into the surface of a fabric. (At this
stage pins must be taken-off).
After that, take it out to dry. And prepare to remove off all
the papers and wax by squeezing and rinsing.
When all wax is removed from the batik artwork, iron it well.
This is supposed to be done with clean papers below the
batik and above—the batik artwork shall be sandwiched
between the layers of papers.
Where there is need to rectify or emphasise essential details,
a marker or pen can be used. But, make sure that added
details do not influence any of your misguided judgements
such as mistakes. Frame the finished batik and make it ready
for a critique or an exhibition.
Exercise
1. Design a motif from a source of inspiration obtained
from the surroundings of your classroom or school. It
will be printed in two colours for a table cloth needed
by the wild life club of your school.
2. Produce a 6 yards office curtain using multi-colours
in a tie-dye technique. Use a motif from a source of
inspiration that represents a place of worship in your
neighbourhood. The colours and images used in
the motif must depict some definite activities of the
worshipping group.
3. The majority of your friends have dropped out of
school because of manageable social dilemmas like:
a) Early marriages
b) Problems of drug abuse
c) Homosexuality and promiscuity
d) HIV/AIDS
Choose one theme from the provided checklist and one
approach of decorating fabrics that you know to create an
awareness campaign in your school.
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