Spray & Scrape Drawing

Draw with crayons on paper. Draw shiny and bright. If you have oil pastels, they work really well for this project too.

Spray liquid watercolor paint over the crayon drawing, and before it can dry.
scrape the paint with a spatula to spread and dry it. (You can also use a credit card or ruler to spread the paint.) 

The bottles that I use that work best are from Discount School Supply and make a fine controllable mist, not a wide spray like some. Liquid Watercolors come in amazing colors, including metallics. I love them more than any other paint I've ever used. 

Comments

[MaryAnn F. Kohl, art book author]

I'll post a few pictures in my next blog entry. Basically, this is a crayon resist, but the liquid watercolors make it look quite different... plus the scraping away of the paint dries the thin colors quickly and removes all bubbles and makes it very smooth. It's hard to show the scraping in photos...it's more of something you have to DO to appreciate... but I will post a few samples of kids' art right away.

[Suzet]

I would love to see some examples too. Is the result the same as using wax resist with tempera? It seems like there would not be contrast without the black. Will you post photos MaryAnn?

[Trish Ackerman]

This sounds interesting. Do you have any finished examples?