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31
Jul

Project #30 Water colour resist painting

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This project allows the resist of the crayon to stand out as a linear element

What you will need:
*watercolour paper or heavy stock paper 8 x 10 in.
*crayon (white is nice – I used grey)
*watercolour paints and brushes
*cup for water
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Step one:
..Take the crayon and do a drawing on the paper
Step two:
..Cover the entire paper with just water (this is a wet on wet method)
Step three:
..Take the watercolour and paint over the entire surface – the crayon will resist the paint and stand out nicely showing the drawing.

Let stand to dry.

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What a beautiful painting! Love it!

It's also lots of fun to watercolor over crayon rubbings. My daughter and I are doing a bunch of rubbings with white crayons this week. At her birthday party next weekend we'll be leting the kids watercolor them to reveal their "mystery" images.

thank you for all your wonderful tutos. I've played with them all!

Like this idea. Best to you.

I'm going to have to try this with my girls! I think they would love it! Thanks for the how-to. Keep 'em comin'!

Great ideas again!

You have so many good ideas to work with kids!

I remember doing this as a child. So fun to revisit these crafty projects!

I am an elementary art teacher and finding your blog is like hitting a gold mine! Your ideas are amazing! I'll be checking back often to see whats new. Thanks!

Are you doing any more kids crafts, i love your ideas and I see you stopped at 30?

Thank you

thank you so much for the nice art lesson :) I will defenetly try it with my daughter, thanks

This is a beautiful project. May I ask what kind of watercolors you recommend? I just have the standard grocery store stuff.

I have done this craft in my school,with white crayons.they come out very well with white crayons!But,I have done it in a different way.We first drew a design with the crayon,then we dipped the brush straightaway in paint.So,we took 70% of water and 30%of paint,so that the painting looks watery and glossy!

Will this project work by glueing a light stock coloring sheet to the heavy stock paper?

I'm going to try this technique out for my own illustrations. Thank you!

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