Happy Valentines Day!!!!

For si's birthday I made him a surprise batik of an underwater seascape - only it was 40" x 46" so it was a bit too big to hide! Made me nervous having the stretcher bars in the laundry room behind the washer. Worse yet was trying to hide large pails of blue dye.. Nervous! Anyways, here it is. I didn't post about the process to my blog simply because I was fearful si would see it before his birthday came. I used the usual beeswax, and procion mx cold water dye. Only the bucket was too small, and so some of the wax cracked in the process. Because I got wax stains while ironing out the wax onto the blue parts, I decided to make more mistakes and give the water more of a mottled look (borrowing from tom, my ceramics instructor).