Batik Self Portraits at Port Townsend High School

I had been talking with Kathleen Burgett, the art teacher at the Port Townsend High School about trying batik self portraits and we decided that this spring would be a good time. I took photos in all three of her classes and the students traced their images onto acetates, which we enlarged to fit onto 11" x 17" paper. The students waxed over those lines, then used acrylic paint on cloth to paint their portraits.