What a rainstorm we had last night - torrential is the perfect word to describe it - The skies opened up and the deluge began and continued for a good 10 minutes or so. Our bathroom is actually outside - as you can see, so i really had to get up to have a look at it raining down in the shower area. Wow it was quite a sight.
The silk painting workshop was in a beautiful setting. Her gardens were amazing. Orchids planted on the trees and blooming. So so pretty. Bubbling ponds and even though close to the road ...so very peaceful and quite quiet.
So up we got and were soon on our way to the silk painting workshop. We were introduced to a lesson in canting pronounced "chanting" by a master canter. This is the method of applying the wax in the pattern onto the silk.
Then we were able to give it a try ourselves. My goodness some of us are so quickly creative with flowers and curves - my straight lines were spectacular.
After we gave that a try we were ushered to the room to create our masterpieces. The canting was done for us and already stretched on the silk so now to dive into our paints and surprise ourselves with our colour choices. There were 5 of us and all of them were quite different. It was very fun. They will be colour set and the wax boiled out and delivered to our hotel before we leave Ubud. It was was wonderful day.
My painting was creative and once again I proved to be the messiest including my hands. Even two days later I still have traces of colour on my painting hand. My work station was quite a site. I had to take a picture of Jan's workstation as she was sitting next to me. I was so engrossed with what I was doing there was no time to put lids on and painting sticks all askew. I had a really really good time.
We had a box lunch delivered to the workshop and I had a lovely bun filled with lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, cucumber, cheese and sprouts. It was tasty and served with some cinnamon tea. Quite refreshing. The we went back to finishing our lovely works of art by painting the background. What a great activity.
Soon we were on our way back to the hotel and ready to submerge ourselves in the pool. It is the only way to completely cool down at the end of the day. For dinner we went to a local restaurant and I had plain grilled chicken and a salad with no spice that still had too much heat for me. Go figure. The plain chicken was amazing. Thank Vishnu (Hindu God) I was certainly ready for some meat for dinner.
So all in all a pretty low key day and it was a welcome one. Tomorrow is a busy one again.
4 comments:
You just had so much fun. I knew, right away, which work area was yours. LOL. You certainly have the creative gene. You did a lovely job and can hardly wait to see it finished.
Messy workplace aside and inky fingers are a sheer sign of creativity and fun. When those two are mixed together it's always a good day! So happy you're enjoying your trip, the food and having so much fun. Enjoy!
Great times for a great person! Wonderful memories like this become treasures and you have captured the enjoyment of doing something foreign (if you will pardon the pun) in both the materials you used and the environment you did it in. All that and a rainstorm! What could be better. Perhaps re-canting! (I will stop now!)
Lots of love and thank you for the blog! Inspiring!
Wonderful butterfly! I marvel that anyone could sit on the floor long enough to do that beautiful project!
I love you so very much!
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