Modern Day Heroes

so while our squares were in the exhibition we had a meeting in the gallery.. it was different from having class inside class.. there was no need to be in a class room hahah... we had a meeting about our batik trip and it was unexpected... i mean i had no idea that it was gonna be this soon but with the class finishing it was exciting to have one more trip as a class...

first we had to form a group and this became a group assignment... it was exciting cause we didn't have a group assignment since the cupcake in the last sem and that drove use apart  and i hate it so much... and i was afraid for this one... but we know know it was our own fault as a group... did we learn from it?? well if we didn't group again it only means we didn't... so this time same group but different people from the last semester... we all grew so much in the last few months... so in my group i had Sarah-Jane, Nick and Maegan we want to show that we learned to plan much better than the last time we were as a group...

so first we had to come up with a theme for our what we want to do for our batik..

here is what we didn't want...

floral patterns

curves

animals

abstract

swirls

flower

and mostly flowers

i think i said that twice that how much we didn't want it... why didn't we want this?? because of this...

its so common its boring... its normal.. for batik to look like this... but after that we start generating ideas... it was at the first time we worked so well as a group, you may not know it but outside of class we were constantly arguing about lighting and camera angles from our other assignments...

a few ideas came up and we went for this one...

Modern Day Heroes

take ordinary day jobs and make em extraordinary... any occupation with man or woman in it and we make em special.. we had so much.... postman, garbage man, fisherman, policeman, fireman... you know it the options are endless... we didn't think it would be this fun... So they all chose they're ones... but i was stuck between fisherman and postman...

so it came down to post man now just the colour scheme... i though i had to go and research postman on the internet but as luck would have it i ran into one that morning on the way to class it was hilarious i never though that postmen wore orange over here hahahah it made it even funnier cause my one looked like the power rangers...

so we arrive at the batik factory and i was in awe the minute i walked in there... they demonstrate how to draw on a batik and you know what im never takin' em for granted again to do something so well with out mistake is unreal! they drew with a waxed like pen that was used in old traditions and when they draw on the batik it was a one in a life time thing so mistake would only mean waste of money and materials...

the place was filled with artistic magic and it was amazing, you know? i was so amazed by what i saw i mean look at these...

then we had to do our own batik on an A3 size... well batik haha while drawing i forgot that i had to close the gap with the wax and before i knew it i had put paint on it... the colour were very fun to mix... even though mine was done a bit badly, i still had fun watchin' all the colour seep into the batik... they mixed so well... so mine turned out like this after drawin'...

OK not what i expected but i achieved my goals... it wasn't to make the perfect batik for the first time but to learn how different mediums work... i know that from my experience there it wasn't for me but with enough practice it could be... i wasn't sad about it just a slight bit of disappointment that it turned out a bit weird... but its interesting the way it turned out... cause normals boring... and i learned a lot from this... and most of all i enjoyed it

here are some  more pictures at the factory