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7/6/2011

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Oh this has been so exciting.  I found the tjap factory and chose 4 old used tjaps for my encaustic experiments.  One has a leaf motif and I added it on top of the dragonfly painting I was working on last week.  I'm on my way home now, but looking forward to all these new techniques to add to my paintings. Here are a few photos of me in the factory and the addition to the dragonfly painitng:
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Karen Story encaustic painting using tjanting tool and tjap on Bali

7/1/2011

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This wedding was so amazing.  A young priest was married to a beautiful girl.  He is taking his deceased father's place as the high priest of Penestanan....5 hours, 2 meals, 2 gamelon bands, many priests, lots of kind people, and beautiful bride and groom.  So, before I go into what's new with learning to add batik processes to my encaustic paintings, here's a little slide show of some images of the wedding.
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Back to encaustic.  Here is a photo of the painting I was working on.  I added some layers of unpigmented wax and scraped it all back so it has a flat surface again.  I don't think I'm finished with it.  It needs some darker values and something else?  But, I got very excited about another idea which I could try out here and have spent the past 3 days investigating and searching out a batik tjap, or metal (copper) stamp, which is used for stamping batiked fabric here on Bali.
I borrowed one with some dragonflies from a batik guy I know (after searching all over Bali for a tjap, I found one on my path).  So, I started by brushing on 2 random colors of wax, and then I heated the tjap and pressed it onto the painting.  That created impressions, which I then filled with colored wax, which made a blobby mess.  I scraped it back, and amazingly, there wrere the dragonflies.  I am so excited about this new idea!!!  We also snorkeled, and I'll throw in a few amazing fish we saw.

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