Hi do you have pre misxed batik dye, Powder dye that you mix? Are the lines
left open when applying the oil pastel. Trying to envision the whole thing.
Susan in Ohio
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From: Marian Colman <Colmans1@cape.com>
To: ArtsEdNet Talk <artsednet@lists.pub.getty.edu>
Date: Thursday, October 11, 2001 6:05 AM
Subject: oil pastel resist
>We take contour portraits or self portraits, blow them up on 18x24 grey
>bogus paper with an opaque projector, then choose a color scheme and fill
in
>around the lines with oil pastels. Students color heavily, blending the
>colors from light to dark in the various shapes. Lastly, we fill in the
>lines with a concentrated solution of batik dye, then blot slightly if the
>dye goes over the pastel. These are very dramatic. I tied in the concept
>of arbitrary color and the Fauves. The students love doing them- many look
>very pyschedelic.
>Marian
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