My plan to record all my lesson plans for the Art Magic sessions quickly met the roadblocks of not enough time or energy but the lessons went ahead. Two I record here as especially enjoyable:
White Wax/Black Ink Drawings
The technique here is simple (see samples of my own
wax resist drawings) and one I first picked up after seeing the work of Victor Brauner in the show "
Aftermath" at the Barbican Art Gallery in 1982.
I provided a collection of white wax crayons of all brands, along with a collection of plain white wax candles, and had the students draw on their white paper, a sturdy paper that can take a beating. I then inked over their drawings as working with young kids and india ink is hazardous on the laundry front.
The initial exitement is easily come by. Seeing those wax forms emerge is fun. What I hoped to do was take this to a further level. By working from light ink washes to dark one can create incredible depth in an image. by repeating the steps of inking then applying wax, then scratching into wax or removing excess wax the variations of light and dark are endless. Incised lines fill with black and scraped off areas lighten.