Crayon Sketch

Crayon Sketch

Grape Jelly Streaks

This picture started with watercolor crayon drawn on the canvas, spread with gesso, and covered with iridescent violet and purple acrylic paint. I then scraped it with a painting knife, making vertical streaks, and added horizontal streaks with black acrylic.

 

Steps 2

I used drawing paper with watercolor crayon, which I then wet, giving me the problem of warped paper. Is there paper that's smooth enough for crayon, but stiff enough to not warp when wet?

Steps

As with Horizontal Black On Colored Vertical, this was done with watercolor crayon on drawing paper

Black Horizontal On Colored Vertical Lines

I couldn't find my canvas boards, so I used watercolor crayons on drawing paper. Of course, the wet paper warped