Crayon Batik Background Technique

The latest background technique posted on the Yahoo Group: Arttechniques is:

Crayon Batik (by Glenda Bailey) It looked quick, fun, and colorful!! :)

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Here is my version!

Supplies I used:

Inexpensive Acrylic Paint

Foam Brush

Disposable Paper Cup

90lb. Watercolor Paper

Wax Paper

Crayons

Iron

Text Paper

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I started by randomly scribbling colors onto the Watercolor paper. Obviously, you could work with a pattern or specific color scheme...... use your imagination and have fun! :)

Crumple the paper over and over and use your muscles......even step on it! Get some good cracks goin' on here! :) Flatten out and lay onto heat protected/paint protected work surface. Cover with text paper and iron with hot/dry iron until crayon is melted.

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Mix a "dollop" of acrylic paint (I used purple......the darker the color, the more dramatic the veins) and a "smidge" of water. Mix with a foam brush. Slap on a good coat of the diluted paint over the entire piece. Allow to soak in for a minute. Cover with wax paper and iron until the excess paint has "evaporated" off........

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If desired (I did) you may cover with another light coat of the diluted paint and allow to air dry.

Here is what my wax paper looked like after I was done! Cool!

Here is the wax paper over text. Will be fun to play with as texture and overlays! Yeeha!

Other ideas:

Instead of Watercolor Paper use:

Mulberry paper, text weight paper, construction paper, text pages from dictionary or other books, deli paper, heavy duty paper towel, brown paper bag......

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In place of diluted acrylic paint use:

diluted dye reinker, diluted watercolors, diluted calligraphy ink.....

HAVE FUN!!!!!!