The ground was white with frost this morning and eventually the sun hit the hills with a blast of red, orange and purple. I have been making use of the good fall weather to be waxing and dyeing lots of batik. The nights get dark early and I go to my studio and do the waxing of the batik at night, then using good days to color my pieces through the dyebaths.
The fall is a season to plan for the cold months to come and also to reflect on things past, present and future. I like to take the darker hours to indulge in fantasy and I’ve included some batik examples of this for the post this week.
You can see one of my old favorites, the “Crescent Dragon”, part of a vintage batik group I’ve put together recently. “The Goat and Wood Elf” are also part of this group. More recent fantasy include “Pegasus Flying over Fields and River” and another quite large batik “Magical Birds”.