Christmas on Mt. Etna
by AnnaJo Vahle
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9.000 x 6.000 x 0.100 inches
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Title
Christmas on Mt. Etna
Artist
AnnaJo Vahle
Medium
Mixed Media - Batik
Description
I was living on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily, Italy, many years ago. I was taught myself how to do batik. This one of the images I made. This is the scene from my back yard when I lived in a villa towards the bottom of the volcano. Mt. Etna is a live volcano and always had an eruption going. The peak was covered with snow during the winter. Wild prickly pears grew over many of the areas on the mountain sides.
At first I painted all the areas of the image with melted wax everywhere except the white and blue areas. I dyed the cloth blue. Next I dyed the green areas of the prickly pear plant. I liked that it was red and green, which made for the Christmas colors. Then I dyed the red areas, followed by the purple areas. I liked the crackles of color from where the wax cracked as I dyed the fabric.
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March 6th, 2024
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Comments (23)
Frankie Soldado 8 Days Ago
Inspiring! I haven't tried batik since school, but this makes me want to do some more. Beautiful:)
Designs By Nimros 17 Days Ago
Still beautiful :) I've been doing some Japanese artwork lately, and this reminds me of Fuji-san :)
Yassine Essouaidi
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Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your creative and unique art work is Featured on the homepage of the "Out Of The Ordinary 1 A Day" group! 3/7/24
CAROLE SPANDAU
Your artwork has been featured on the homepage of FAA Gallery Home For All Artists Who Create. Please post your amazing artwork in our` Archive your March Features` discussion.
Lyric Lucas
Congratulations, your beautiful artistic work is Featured on the home page of the "Bedroom Art Gallery" group. l/f 3/7/24
Tatiana Travelways
I'm delighted to feature your beautiful artwork on the front page gallery of the "Travel Art" group, at Fine Art America! Feel free and post it to our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/faatravelart
Ben Prepelka
Your work is now featured in the Roadside group! Please consider adding it to the โFeatured work for March and April 2024 active discussion thread." (Fav on 3-6-2024)
Sherilyn Harper
Congratulations AnnaJo on being featured in the Any Old Thing From Anywhere Group with this gorgeous Italian volcano made in batik, good composition and lovely colors
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