My youngest daughter is home with a cold and has been spending the days painting and drawing. In one of her art books she found instructions for batik painting with wax crayons. I really liked the idea and thought I would share how to do it.
Start with a black, wax crayon outline
Colour the picture with wax crayons, best with bright or light colours and a heavy solid filling
Scrunch the paper up
Flatten the picture out
Paint over the picture with black paint and plenty of water so all the wrinkles in the paper are filled, (all white areas will also be painted black)
I laid a bit of toilet paper on the picture, after the black paint, to soak up the paint that wasn’t absorbed by the wax.
Good fun for an inside day.
Finished painting
the Spider's Workshop 