Tempera Batik Painting
Project Description:
Students will be picking a subject to draw, then outline with charcoal. They will be creating Tempera Batiks using a similar method as cloth batiks, minus the wax. Students will pick a color scheme they wish to follow to decide their paint colors. After the charcoal has been applied then you paint at least three layers of tempera paint where there is no charcoal. Then you cover the entire painting with ink. You wash off the ink carefully while rubbing the painting. After most of the ink is off and the painting has dried, then you cover it with a layer of mod podge.
What is Batik?
Batik is both an art and a craft, which is becoming more popular and well known in the West as a wonderfully creative medium. The art of decorating cloth in this way, using wax and dye, has been practiced for centuries. In Java, Indonesia, batik is part of an ancient tradition, and some of the finest batik cloth in the world is still made there. The word batik originates from the Javanese tik and means to dot.
To make a batik, selected areas of the cloth are blocked out by brushing or drawing hot wax over them, and the cloth is then dyed. The parts covered in wax resist the dye and remain the original colour. This process of waxing and dyeing can be repeated to create more elaborate and colourful designs. After the final dyeing the wax is removed and the cloth is ready for wearing or showing.
Contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles. For example, the artist may use etching, discharge dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.
Batik is historically the most expressive and subtle of the resist methods. The ever widening range of techniques available offers the artist the opportunity to explore a unique process in a flexible and exciting way.
Students will be picking a subject to draw, then outline with charcoal. They will be creating Tempera Batiks using a similar method as cloth batiks, minus the wax. Students will pick a color scheme they wish to follow to decide their paint colors. After the charcoal has been applied then you paint at least three layers of tempera paint where there is no charcoal. Then you cover the entire painting with ink. You wash off the ink carefully while rubbing the painting. After most of the ink is off and the painting has dried, then you cover it with a layer of mod podge.
What is Batik?
Batik is both an art and a craft, which is becoming more popular and well known in the West as a wonderfully creative medium. The art of decorating cloth in this way, using wax and dye, has been practiced for centuries. In Java, Indonesia, batik is part of an ancient tradition, and some of the finest batik cloth in the world is still made there. The word batik originates from the Javanese tik and means to dot.
To make a batik, selected areas of the cloth are blocked out by brushing or drawing hot wax over them, and the cloth is then dyed. The parts covered in wax resist the dye and remain the original colour. This process of waxing and dyeing can be repeated to create more elaborate and colourful designs. After the final dyeing the wax is removed and the cloth is ready for wearing or showing.
Contemporary batik, while owing much to the past, is markedly different from the more traditional and formal styles. For example, the artist may use etching, discharge dyeing, stencils, different tools for waxing and dyeing, wax recipes with different resist values and work with silk, cotton, wool, leather, paper or even wood and ceramics.
Batik is historically the most expressive and subtle of the resist methods. The ever widening range of techniques available offers the artist the opportunity to explore a unique process in a flexible and exciting way.
Color Schemes
GOALS:
-Interesting Subject sketched then outline in Charcoal.
-Color scheme chosen to paint 3 layers of paint for batik painting. (Do not cover the charcoal outlines)
-Ink Wash applied correctly.
-Mod Podge later to gloss and seal.
-Interesting Subject sketched then outline in Charcoal.
-Color scheme chosen to paint 3 layers of paint for batik painting. (Do not cover the charcoal outlines)
-Ink Wash applied correctly.
-Mod Podge later to gloss and seal.