Horse with Flowing Mane

by | Mar 12, 2010

picture 1 – Wax applied with the tjanting tool for the third stage.picture 2 – This is the same batik ready to immersed in the dye bath.picture 3 – Now look at the horse as the batik emerges from the dye bath after being immersed and stirred for 1/2...

Spring!

by | Mar 7, 2010

Last week the fields changed from brown to white! The heavy snow fell softly and silently. All was so beautiful, shrouded in white, the branches low to the ground under the weight of the wet snow. A feeling that nowhere else existed but this quiet peaceful white...

Winter dreaming

by | Feb 24, 2010

It’s seven AM. The woodstove has been started and is crackling. Warmth is spreading through the room.The sun has reached the tops of the mountains in the west,(the Adirondacks) and has turned them pink. Gradually the pink highlights spread to more peaks and then...

Catch up

by | Feb 19, 2010

Well lately it feels like I am just doing catch up work on the batik pieces that have been in progress around the studio. I have done some dying on the warmer February days. And waxing on some of the colder days. Of course, I appreciate that we didn’t get all of...