Wax Crayon Resist Painting

THIS WAS PAINTED PLEIN AIR WITH NO PROBLEMS.

I painted all the black acrylic applied with a cut credit card than added wax crayon to the building and trees and finally painted acrylic washes over the entire piece. I really enjoyed putting in the iron fence line work with the edge of a cut credit card.

TOWNSCAPES ON LOCATION

I drew this in crayon from my vehicle parked in East Berlin, PA. Adding the paint was fun and the sky turned out great. Love the texture.

EVEN FUNNY STUFF WORKS WELL WITH WAX CRAYON RESIST

Made this in the studio, since I don't paint to well under the sea.

notice the Rough texture from wax crayon resist

CONTOUR LINES WITH WAX CRAYON

Love the smooth watercolor or acrylic paints flowing over and being resisted by the wax crayon line work. I even put white crayon in the sky for texture as a resist.

WATERCOLOR RESIST

I normally start with the crayon work and get all the wax crayon in place before my paint is applied over top. Sometimes more crayon is added after the paint dries to strengthen the color.

LAYERS OF WAX CRAYON

A contrasting final layer of watercolor or acrylic are added at the end to reveal wonderful surprises.