Here are some examples of batik on tissue. These two of trees are ones that I did near the end of the holiday. The one on the left is done on black tissue which has had nearly almost all the colour bleached out of it. The trees were painted in first using drawing inks and then they were covered in wax, with some small areas left unwaxed. The different areas were coloured with inks and more wax was added in various places. Some areas I didn't like so they were bleached again to take away the colour. Then the wax was removed with an iron. The right hand picture has free-machine stitching to create the tree trunks, branches and roots. This was done on dark red tissue with a strip of black (the greenish area). Originally it was an A3 piece, but I didn't like the bottom section, so cut it down.
These flower pictures were done about half-way through the holiday. This one is done on black tissue. I coloured the bleached tissue - pinkish colours at the top and greens at the bottom and waxed flower shapes at the top using a brush and the stems were created with the edge of a piece of stiff card dipped in wax. The flowers didn't come out well, so I have covered them over with free-machined flowers. These were done by free-machine zig-zag on muslin, which was then painted with ink and cut out. The flowers were sewn onto the picture using a straight hand stitch to create the centre of the flower. The stems were free-machined in straight stitch.
This picture of aliums was done on blue tissue with the bottom half being bleached more so that it could be painted with greens. The flowers were created by blobbing wax on through a circular stencil. The flower heads and stems have been defined with free-machining.
This picture, below left, is based on the photograph of poppies. This was done on black tissue. The area to the right of the poppies has been re-covered with strips of green and yellow tissue to hide the mess that was there! The sky got a bit soggy and the tissue disintegrated but I quite like the stormy effect it gives, even if the reality was a glorious cloud free sky. The poppies and stems have been free-machined on. The trees in the background caused a few problems and I didn't like the free-machine zig-zag that I did, so I did some hand stitching over the top and then darkened it with oil pastels.
Here are some examples of batik on tissue. These two of trees are ones that I did near the end of the holiday. The one on the left is done on black tissue which has had nearly almost all the colour bleached out of it. The trees were painted in first using drawing inks and then they were covered in wax, with some small areas left unwaxed. The different areas were coloured with inks and more wax was added in various places. Some areas I didn't like so they were bleached again to take away the colour. Then the wax was removed with an iron. The right hand picture has free-machine stitching to create the tree trunks, branches and roots. This was done on dark red tissue with a strip of black (the greenish area). Originally it was an A3 piece, but I didn't like the bottom section, so cut it down.
These flower pictures were done about half-way through the holiday. This one is done on black tissue. I coloured the bleached tissue - pinkish colours at the top and greens at the bottom and waxed flower shapes at the top using a brush and the stems were created with the edge of a piece of stiff card dipped in wax. The flowers didn't come out well, so I have covered them over with free-machined flowers. These were done by free-machine zig-zag on muslin, which was then painted with ink and cut out. The flowers were sewn onto the picture using a straight hand stitch to create the centre of the flower. The stems were free-machined in straight stitch.
This picture of aliums was done on blue tissue with the bottom half being bleached more so that it could be painted with greens. The flowers were created by blobbing wax on through a circular stencil. The flower heads and stems have been defined with free-machining.
I tried out all the techniques that Jenny showed us. I particularly liked batik on tissue paper. This technique involves gluing (with a Pritt stick) crumpled tissue paper to a piece of cartridge paper, spraying it with diluted bleach which removes some of the colour (particularly effective on black and dark red tissue) and then painting areas with coloured inks. Selected areas were painted with hot wax to preserve the colour and washes of ink were painted over the top. Further bleaching and waxing was done until the design was finished and then the wax was removed by placing 
the piece between newspaper and ironing to melt the wax.
