Paper Batik

Our focus for Visual Art has been to explore two different techniques with crayons and coloured dyes. The students have learned how to imitate the fabric decorating technique called batik. This process uses similar techniques to traditional batik on fabric, just replacing the cloth with paper. The process uses crayons to draw and colour a design on paper that is then crumpled into a ball to create the crackling that is featured in real batik. Finally, dye is painted over the image. The wax resists the dye, but seeps into the crackled lines.

Secondly, the students have explored a resist dying technique where an image is created with crayon and dye is applied over the wax crayon.