Assignment 3- "Batik"- [Let's Do This!!]

We started our journey to the batik factory around 9.00 in the morning. We took a tour bus there with the photocopy of our designs , pencils and our beginner level skills. It was around 45 minutes ride and the tour guide was very kind to explain what we would be doing when we get there. 

As this is the first time I went to a batik gallery or workshop, I was super duper excited. :D

                     

So let's back to work! :)

The first process was sketching the designs onto the fabric using pencil. We used masking tapes to stuck our designs under the batik so that we could trace it out the outline.

done tracing it!

The next step is waxing the outline. The people at there are nice that they were helping us scooping the hot wax.

Putting the wax part is the hardest process among all since the wax was in liquid form, we have to control how much we need to put on the fabric. We need to change the wax often too as it dried out too fast because we have to work on it when the wax was in liquid form. We need to have  a very steady hand while doing this, if not.. it can ruin everything! There shouldn't left any gap for the outline because the color will go all over if there's no wax.

After completed waxing the outline, the next step is applying colors that we had decided onto the cloth. We need to be very careful and steady because we cannot allow any mistakes to happen and if it did happen, we can't redo it or undo it.

June is very very concentrate and focus..

in-progressing..

These were the outcomes;

I didn't take picture of Jia Ni's pattern because during that time, she was having a critical moments.

All in all, we made it till the end and faced a lot of problems along the way. It requires a great amount of skills, patience and experiences to make it. We had a lot of fun.

Ms.Lisa also created one of her own batik design. It was very neat and nice what Ms.Lisa did. As expected, Ms.Lisa are a professional in anything! :)

The scene of doing Batik assignment. 

And we went back to campus with colorful hand. :)

Assignment 3- "Batik"- [Designing!]

All of us gave ideas into our design. These are my sketches;

Ms. Lisa prefer Jia Ni's idea which is a diamond shape design and placed it randomly. We found out that the diamond cube looks like one of the poker cards design, and so we got an idea. We created four different shapes based on the inspiration of poker cards. The shapes are diamonds, spade, clubs and hearts.

http://www.mypapershop.com/mm5/graphics/00000001/658630.jpg

Each of us chose one of the symbol to create a pattern. I chose hearts, June chose clubs, Yazmin chose spade and Jia Ni in-charge for the diamond of course since she's the creator. :) Ms.Lisa gave us a suggestion that we can try to make them into square-like type so we started to sketch it out on the graph paper. However, we found that it really takes quite some time to draw out plenty of the shapes, so we tried to draw out a rough sketch of our pattern and then use Photoshop to edit it. 

A rough sketch of my part -hearts symbol

We arranged our pattern again on the Photoshop to make it looks perfect when combining for different shapes together. 

 Yazmin's spade pattern in-progress

thinking of a way to make it more unite. :)

Our final outcome for hearts and clubs pattern would be like this..

Assignment 3- "Batik"- [Research]

Basically, batik is a fabric painting by using wax to outline the shapes and pattern in order to secure the colors, dye it with colors and wash off the wax in boiling water.

http://ak0.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/1920328/preview/stock-footage-an-artist-carefully-draw-the-flower-motif-on-traditional-batik-fabric-with-melted-wax.jpg

http://destinationmarketing.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Batik-drawing.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2358/2453710442_e5a103b687.jpg

For this awesome assignment, we were asked to create our own batik in a group of 3 to 4 members. Ms. Lisa had given us 2 hours time to do our research about the batik and also choosing a theme for this batik project. We were inspired by this picture because of its background color that are very fascinating.

And here's what we had researched 

Assignment 2- "Monograms"- [Presentation Day!]

The day has finally come! We arranged our stuff in a booth-like style and it looks really like all of us are selling our products.

We were asked to present our poster, patterns and our six items during the presentation. I placed it like I'm going to exhibit my artwork! I was very excited for it!

Ms. Lisa went around, giving comments and advise for everyone. For my presentation, Ms. Lisa said that I should remove the file clipper board and also the face towel so that all looks more united. I'm glad that Ms. Lisa liked at least one of my items among all and she liked the poster, which I was quite happy about it. :)
I do learned a lot of things from this assignment like time management, choosing the color wisely, skills to cut all the stencils and our monograms, control the amount of spray and also choose the item wisely so that our item would be unite. Last but not least, always double check our item before spraying on it. It could save more time and we don't have to redo for it! (-w-)

Here's the artwork that my classmate done. :)

 Shazreen showing a derp face. lol :P

I felt like I didn't sleep for like thousand years and also felt like I accomplish a big heavy project like this since I've been busy doing these for three weeks and finally it's all over!!! YAY!! Congratulations to everyone! :D

Assignment 2- "Monograms"- [Extra Item]

I was actually done enough for my 6 item but I got so excited so I keep on stenciling on some item the day before the presentation. :D

 It was fun while doing stenciling and the best part is of course.. SPRAY!! :D

So here, I'll just show all my items that I had stenciled..

All put together in one box..

It gives me a feel like I bought all these items from my company. The JG brand company. lol :P