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Watercolor Resist Painting!

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A fun little technique to create some colorful pieces of art! These also make great pieces to add to collage techniques or are fun for art journaling too!

What you need:

  • Watercolor paper (I use Canson XL cold press 140lb)
  • Masking tape
  • watercolor paints
  • Oil pastels or Crayons
  • Large flat brush

Step one: Tape down your watercolor paper – the tape also creates a nice border to your artwork you can decorate later! I cut my paper to be a bookmark!

Step two: Create a design or picture on your paper with your crayons or oil pastels – press firmly!

Step three: You don’t need to fill in all of your paper – leave some areas white, this will be filled in with your paint color!

Step four: Prepare your watercolor paints and gently brush overtop of your crayon or oil pastel design!

Step five: The oil pastels or crayons will resist the watercolor paint and only stick to the white areas of your paper! I used warm color crayons and cool color paint for more contrast!

Step six: Let your paint dry and remove your tape!

This piece was created with oil pastels instead of crayons!

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Wax Paper Sun Catchers

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Create some colorful window art with this simple method! You can hang your creations in a window or make them into a mobile! You can also use your colorful translucent wax papers for scrap booking and collage projects!

What you need:

  • Wax Paper
  • Crayons – with papers peeled.
  • Iron
  • Newspaper
  • String
  • Hole punch
  • Handheld pencil sharpener or Crayon sharpener
  • Scissors
  • Stencils, templates, or cookie cutters to trace for your shapes!
  • Pencil

Step one: Cover your work surface with newspaper and lay a piece of wax paper on top!

Step two: Using your hand held sharpener, sharpen your crayons over your wax paper. We want all the little shavings from the crayons on your wax paper! Keep in mind your crayon colors will get mixed together in our next steps!

Step three: Once you have quite a bit of crayon shavings covering your wax paper, lay another piece of wax paper on top and cover with more newspaper.

Step four: Carefully iron your wax paper to melt all those crayon shavings between your wax papers!

Step five: Let your paper cool off slightly and then remove the newspapers. Check out your awesome piece of translucent wax paper!

Step six: Use a stencil, template, or cookie cutter to trace a shape on your wax paper with a pencil. I made a fish template that I cut out of some card stock.

Step seven: Cut out your shapes, make a hole and add your string!

Step eight: You can hang your cut outs in a window just as they are or you can add them to a dowel or hoop (like an embroidery hoop) and create a mobile!

These colorful wax papers are also fun to use in scrap booking or collage projects too!