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Monday, July 30, 2007

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!!!!!!

4 comments:

  1. Thanks for this it looks very interesting and a must do.

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  2. Yay! Good to see you snuck some creative time in your faux batik looks great!!

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  3. Extremely cool technique. Thanks for sharing your work.

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  4. This looks fantastic I am really going to try it. Thanks for sharing it with the world

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