So, a few days before, I signed up for Batik lessons. We were told to make it Banten style, since it was the Province that we live in. We are from Tangerang Selatan and the mayor wanted us to add a TangSel Anggrek (type of flower).
We started since Friday and the competition is on Wednesday!! I mean like, isn't that too soon? Anyways, the mayor Insisted! She chose our school because we have won many awards before, but the students who won, had already moved into High School. Me, 2 fourth graders and 1 other fifth grader signed up for it.
For the past 2 days, we only learnt to draw the patterns we were going to do later on. I think I did draw the Anggrek nicely. Me, Aisah and the others were at different levels. I was up to here, and they were somewhere else, but it wasn't so big of a gap.
Today, we finally got to use the Canting. It is a small Dipper used to apply wax in the Batik process. It was like a candle, and we used this little thing like a hot plate to warm it up , making it all liquid-ish. We warmed the candle light thingy and once it was warmed up, we used the scoop on the Canting and started tracing the picture. Since it was pencil, it was quite hard to see the lines since it was under the wax. The wax thingy wasn't hot, it was just warm on you hand and it actually felt nice. After that, we decided to make a different pattern and she told me to do it at home.
