Crayons - Art

Art

Conté crayons of clay and graphite are used for sketching, particularly in the trois crayons style. Antoine Watteau and Jean-François Millet are noted for using conté in their work. Crayon art is more known for the styles in which you can create artistic visions. There are aspects of drawing with crayons that can be manipulated to show its diversity. Blending is where you overlap colors with crayons to create a blended and solid effect to the wax. This process is achieved much better if you put the white paper on top of newspaper. Rubbing is a technique used to show texture from the crayon. Placing a small object or textured item under the white paper, and rubbing a colored crayon overtop of the object, to then show the texture in which the item is made of. For example, take a penny and put a white piece of paper over it, and rub the crayon overtop. You'll see the traced outline of the penny on your paper. The way in which you arrange the items you rub over and the colors in which you use can enhance this technique. Crayon Etching is where you design a colorful picture with crayons, and then color the whole picture with a black wax crayon. Using a blunt tool such as a pen cap or a paper clip, you can etch off the black to show the colored picture underneath. This technique can show delicate linear patterns and intricate details. Crayon transfer is when you cover a page in a crayon or wax drawing, and then turn that paper upside down on another white sheet. You can draw on the plain white sheet to reveal colors on the opposite paper. It would be like using the crayon drawing page as the color for your writing on the plain sheet. Crayon batik is a process where you mix wax crayons and watercolors. You draw with wax crayons and then crinkles the paper up with water color on it to show a crinkled effect. Then you lay the painted and wax crayon drawn paper into clear water. Release this paper from the water after a few seconds and let dry.