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47 posts, 44 comments

Gratitude for those who work with my batik art

October 26, 2016Carol3 comments

I have been collecting photos of what others have created with my batik fabric art and have been thinking over the year that it would be nice to share what can be done with it with the rest of the world. There are many folks who have sent me pictures of what they have created…

Thunderstorm in process

Batik, starting with black fabric: A twist

September 7, 2016Carol5 comments

Sometimes I have tried a different approach to a batik and I have started working with the black fabric and gone through many stages of bleaching out and re-dyeing color in. This first photo shows a picture of the wax on the black fabric in the beginning of my batik, Caught in the Thunderstorm. The strange thing…

The origin of Amity

August 31, 2016Carol1 comment

Light as a feather, her hooves barely touched the ground as she stepped out of the trailer to my home in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts. Amity the filly had arrived from Green Meads Farm in the Berkshire hills. I had longed for a registered Morgan that I could ride, show and breed to have foals (baby horses)…

I am rich in flowers

July 20, 2016CarolNo Comments

The yard outside our old house has been bursting with daylilies and other flowers, and I have just been swept away with the beauty of them. My favorite time to take a walk is at sunset time, and the light here comes in from the West and bathes everything in the golden light. It’s actually…

Video batik tutorials

June 22, 2016Carol2 commentsbatik, dye bath, ironing, painting dye, tjanting tool, tutorial, wax

People ask me all the time, “How do you do batik?” I used to try to write summaries, but now I can just say go to my website! Last Friday, Maria Wulf of Bedlam Farm came and took video of me doing batik. She wrote some beautiful blog posts about each part of the tutorial…

Memorial Day Move

June 2, 2016Carol2 comments

It is said you have to love farming to keep doing it and we did. It was not a job but a way of life, a ritual repeated day in day out with exciting and unexpected events both good and bad. We loved the animals and loved the land. Here is the memory of our…

inspiration dust

May 19, 2016CarolNo Comments

The dye buckets are finally outdoors and sit on the ground waiting to merge with the wax. The mixing of dyes is time consuming and my least favorite part of the batik process but I feel a release of my creative spirit now that the buckets of dye are ready. It is warmish and the…

Breath – A New Calf Comes to the World

May 3, 2016CarolNo Comments

With one big push the calf finally gushed into the world and lay still behind her mom. Being nervous I pushed forward to be sure the nostrils were clear to breath, but before I reached the small jersey heifer (female calf) she shook her head and took the first breaths of life. Birth is a…

Free from the dyes

April 25, 2016Carol3 comments

  Sundance Trilogy, this batik is finally completed, out of the dye and hanging to dry, free in the wind.   Nothing dyed here, except the batik. Here is a large pail filled with a deep red dye, which was the final dye bath for Sundance Trilogy.   Sundance Trilogy going into the dye set…

Start Up

April 21, 2016Carol4 comments

So I wrote out the request. “Please cash in my teacher’s retirement account”.  I had worked as a traveling art teacher for about five years and took a leave of absence to work on my art. But I never went back. I loved creating my art and was managing to sell much of it in…

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Carol Law Conklin, owner of Amity Farm Batik, is a batik artist based in Washington County, New York. Her work includes farmscapes, equine art, landscapes and fantasy/myth creations.

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