One of the water coloring activity we did this month was using watercolors with crayons. The exercise was to understand how crayons resist watercolors and how this property of crayons can be used as an advantage to make interesting compositions.
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| Crayon Resist with Water Colors |
For checking if the crayons will resist watercolors, apply a thin wash of watercolors over a line drawn with crayon. After the paint dries, you will note that the watercolors will barely show on the top of crayon layer.
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| Testing for crayon resisting watercolors |
This is an easy and interesting exercise for children since they love using both crayons and water colors. Below is the procedure on how you can also try this technique.
Materials required for this Exercise:
Paper, Crayons, Watercolors and Paint Brushes
Procedure:
The steps are simple and easy to follow. Draw a picture directly with crayons on the paper and then apply watercolors on the entire drawing. Below we made an underwater scene using crayons.
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| Step 01: Draw a picture with crayons |
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| Step 02: Paint with watercolors |
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| Done: An underwater scene using crayon resist with watercolors |
Here's what our students at Art Hours have attempted using watercolors and crayons.
A couple of examples below show an Underwater scene with Fishes created by the little students using crayon resist and watercolors.
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| Underwater scene using crayon resist with watercolors |
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| Underwater scene using crayon resist with watercolors |
In the paintings below, the students have traced their hands using crayons and have applied watercolors thereafter to depict a scene for the festival of Holi.
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| Colorful Hands of Holi using Crayon resist with Watercolors |
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| Colorful Hands of Holi using Crayon resist with Watercolors |
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| Colorful Hands of Holi using Crayon resist with Watercolors |
Hope this small tutorial is helpful. Thank you for stopping by.
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