2nd Grade Picasso inspired Crayon Resist

In 2nd Grade we viewed Picasso's abstract works of art and learned his personal background and who his friends were in the art world.
Initially the students focused on a more abstract work such as "Weeping Woman",
but as you can see once we began to apply our paint over the heavy black crayon, it took the students to a new dimension and in art we really cannot argue when a piece of artwork does not go as planned all we can do it follow it and see it through it's new direction to the end.

The Process:

The word resist is used to describe the action in which two materials or media repeal each other either chemically or physically. In this art piece we are used crayons and watercolor paint to resist each other and repel. The repelling of the water in the paint with the wax of the crayon allows paint to be used between shapes of crayon and shows a black line around the edges of the crayon. This mixed media work is using the black paint to show a contrast between the shapes of crayon and gives the illusion of a stained glass window.