Batik Painting ( we made it ourselves, yippee) !!

er, this morning, at 10 am, the National Museum , Indonesia... me, my aunt, my friends : Novra and Tamara , join a batik - making class.
We used handkerchief sized white fabric. Then we follow the pattern ( in pencil ), using a traditional wax.
This class is fun. People are so highly concentrated drawing their pattern carefully (because the wax will easily leaked out from the canting *traditional tools like pen to draw a batik pattern* if you don't hold it properly).

This is how my friends looked like when they focused on their handkerchiefs :


novra. Only male at class.


Pipi, who came late, still she worked hard to finish her work.

and of course, this is how it looked like when we're finished wax - tracing the pattern :


novra and his batik. ( dots and lines inside are designed by himself. filling the outer pattern provided before ).


me, with my own batik. I drew the dots and lines inside the outer pattern myself. I love it.


this is my finished handkerchief ( my own batik...!!!! ooooohhhhhhh... )

After class, we went out to take some pictures. Thanks to pipi who brought a tripod, so that i could use timer mode on with my camera..


this is pipi, setting her camera, frog style photographer... giggles...

and me, running away from my camera after i set it - climbing the amphitheater so fast to catch the ten seconds limit..

and this is what i got. A huge back stab conspiracy between my aunt, pipi, and novra.


oh my dear God.... ckckck...


then again, there'll be no end for a timer mode camera.... giggles...


before we went lunch, in front of Ganesha..

oh, and one more silly pic :


eyes closed and hands up??? oh pleaseee.....

BATIK is from INDONESIA.
note that, gentlemen....

we love it.
we hope you do to.
:-D