My History
I went to Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, in Neward, NJ. This is when I learned about drawing and painting with oil paints and water color. I also love pastels. I love doing landscapes and portrait paintings and still lifes. I especially loved doing oil painting and I like to work on medium to large paintings. I do have some that are smaller.
At present, I am taking oil painting, watercolor, and drawing classes at CCU-Coastal Carolina University. It is wonderful to be spending most of my time focusing on Art.
Below, I will explain how I learned about doing Batiking.
My Passion
Batiking
Batik is an ancient textile art involving wax and dyes on fabric. Batik means “wax writing” and was a highly accomplished art in Java and Bali in the 13thCentury. One starts with a white fabric and with melted wax, applies the areas to stay white.
Then, the fabric is dyed in the lightest color. Once the fabric is dry, the areas needing to be kept the light color are then covered with hot wax. The fabric is dyed in the last, darker color and dried. The wax needs to be ironed between plain papers and then dry cleaned to get all the wax out. Who came first in producing this technique is unsure; Africa and/or Indonesia.
I fell in love with the simple, yet challenging, technique and the beautiful colors I could make.
I started doing art in grade school, went to art school, “Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts” in Newark, NJ, then a year at “The Institute de Cultura” in Puerto Rico. In California, I found out about Batiking some 30 years ago.
I am selling a few Batik originals and also fine prints of my Batiks. Along with Batiking, I love painting and drawing, focusing on people, landscapes, and nature. Batiking combines my love for color and impressionism and continues to challenge me as I do more and more art.
I want to share these Batik prints with you as I begin to start back into doing what I love most, painting.
I have been fortunate to be able to have fine prints of my Batiks available to sell as single pieces and as gift cards. As with the originals, the prints need to be hung in indirect light. They need not be framed in glass. The Batik print can be stretched over a frame without a backing and hung in a window to allow natural, indirect light to shine through.