Supplies
Crayons
Printer Paper or Drawing Paper
Steps
1. Draw 4 Squares and 2 long rectangles on your paper
2. In the first square use one color and blend it into white pressing hard. First start coloring
pressing hard then slowly press lighter as you move to the other side.
3. Draw with white over the top
4. In the second square do the same thing but don’t press as hard
5. In the third square do the same thing you did in the first square except start with black
pressing hard and then not as hard as you move to the other side.
6. Now add your color over the top pressing hard the whole time.
7. Do the same thing in the fourth square using less pressure
8. Make the rainbow across the first rectangle, pressing hard and overlapping colors to blend
them.
9. Do the same thing as the rectangle above except this time you are using less pressure
10. Try to blend opposites together
Adaptions
Just make a rainbow blending the colors by overlapping them
Extensions
Create a color wheel out of crayons
Try making secondary colors (Orange, green, violet) by using the primary colors (red, yellow,
blue)
Artists/Art
Don Marco
Kristina Nelson
Crayon
Technique
Books
The Day the Crayons quit, Drew Daywalt
Homework
Draw a piece of fruit using this layering technique
Vocabulary
ROYGBIV
Layering
Blending
Tips
In the video I don’t mention that you want to color with lighter colors on top of darker colors to
blend them smoothly. In use black over blue, however, I should have colored blue over black.
This tutorial was made by McCall Johnson for Mr Otter Studio
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