Scratch board art

A variation on resist paintings.

Materials:

• Paper
• Coloured crayons (Neon colours look amazing!)
• Black or dark coloured poster paint mixed with a dash of soap (to help the paint adhere to the wax)
• Jar of water (for paint)
• Brushes (for paint)
• Popscicle stick or pen cap (to scrape the paint off the paper)

Instructions:

• Use the crayons to cover the entire sheet of paper with colour. Use stripes, designs, random scribbles!
• Paint over all of the crayon with dark coloured paint.
• Wait for paint to dry.
• Use a popscicle stick or pen cap to create a design by gently scraping the paint off the paper!

Edited to ad:

• Here's a great post on this method:
  http://skiptomylou.wordpress.com/2007/01/11/scratch-art/