Batik Adjustments after gluing

 Here are a few more ideas for adjusting your batik, if needed. 

Inktense blocks or pencils/watercolor pencils

Inktense is water soluble, but is bright ink, not watercolor. It acts like a watercolor block or pencil, but after it is activated with water, cannot be lifted or removed. You can use white or lighter colors over darks, which makes it nice for covering mistakes.

Here are some places where I used inktense.

To add some bright reds on some of the petals.

Rubbed on the side of the block with white and green to break up the large dark area underneath the beak.

COLLAGE

You can paint a scrap of the rice paper. Tear it to a shape you want, and use

matte medium to collage it over a shape you want to modify..

 On the picture below 

you can see some light pink areas on the "throat" of the flower. You want to tear it,

not cut it, to make it blend into the paper

WHITE INDIA INK

White ink can be used either to define some lost white areas (used full strength) or

to lighten an area. (wetted down and blended in) In the leaf area on the bottom left,

I wanted it to be lighter and regain the point. I blended in some white ink to accomplish

that. 

Flower after wax removed

After inking the board I mounted on

After all changes and adjustments made.

Other ideas are: adding some pen and ink; using gouache (I don't really like that because It can look chalky); Fluid watercolor over mistakes. 

STUDENT RESULTS

Vicki's 

Vicki used some inktense blocks and a little white ink to recover some edges

and change some of the colors.

Jackie's Cow

(Jackie also used some very vibrant colors for the last wash and had

very little in the way of adjustments at the end)