Happy Easter!!!

Do you ever use the "magic crayon' that comes with many egg coloring kits?

Hana wrote a secret message on one egg, and waited too see how I'll react when I read it. After I dipped the egg in dye and read it I saw that it said "I love my family". I couldn't ask for more.

I always keep those crayons and add them to my crayon box in the art room. They are fun tools to use for resist techniques. I really didn't have time to paint today (way too much cooking, baking, cleaning), but someone dared me to paint anyway - so I did. I drew random lines and words in my journal and washed some diluted acrylics over it.

Then I added more lines with the magic crayon and washed another color over it.

I decided that that's interesting enough and painted over.

You can use any other non-water soluble crayon as resist, but I like this transparent one because same as Hana's message - you really don't know what you drew/wrote until you put color over it.
Try it - it's fun.