PanPastels are vibrantly full of pigment…and work wonderfully with baby wipes so I decided to build an art journal page of castle towers with them.

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Watch how to seal them with a mini mister 

Using my Once Upon a Time stencil, I created the background towers all about the same height.  Why?  To fill in the page since I have that aversion to white space.

The towers on the stencil aren’t as long as this page but with magic I made them as long as I needed. Not really magic as you can see in the video…I just moved the stencil down.

The middle towers were created the same way as the background ones but more hodgepodge in their heights.

For the final row of towers some planning had to happen when it came to the colors.  Planning because I tend to forget what I thought a minute ago, so in the video you’ll see how I made sure I remembered what color I wanted where.

Up until this point, the stencil part had been used.  To get the windows on the towers, the masks (that are included in the stencil) were placed on top and then PanPastel’d with white.

How do I seal PanPastels so there is zero smudging?  There are a couple of ways I like to do it.  One is with a homemade spray and you can see the video here.  One with with a Gel Press plate.  You can see that video here.

Is this art journal page complete? Not quite yet.  I’ll set it aside and when the muse is ready, she’ll let me know what comes next on this page- and of course, I’ll share it here!

I’ll be teaching a PanPastel Art Journaling Workshop at Artiscape in  April, 2017 in Columbus, OH.  Love to see you there!

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Here are the supplies I used. Some of these links are affiliate links which means I get a small percentage. It doesn’t cost you anything extra and it helps keep the free tutorials coming!

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Why do I love crayon rubbings? Is it the historical significance that brass rubbings played in medieval times?  Is it the memory of first grade making leaf rubbings? A little bit of those but the biggest reason is crayon rubbings are immediate gratification.  No waiting for anything to dry.  The only prep work is taking the paper off a crayon so this is my kind of play!

New to watercolors?  In the video, I share how coloring them in with watercolors enable me to get lights and darks of the same color by just changing the amount of water I used as I color in the crayon rubbings made with  Triangular Pathways and Trio of Thorns.

Watch Making crayon rubbings with stencils and watercolors on YouTube.

All you need is a crayon, a stencil, and a piece of paper.  I chose book text for the added pattern of the words peeking out but you can use any paper you want!  I wondered if book text would be too thick of a paper to do this, and it worked wonderfully but I imagine each paper is a little different so if you have any problems you may want to experiment around with a variety of weights of papers.

Those bargain boxes of Crayola crayons from back to school time are quite handy when it comes to making rubbings!  Here are the steps to making a crayon rubbing:

1.  take the wrapper off the crayon
2. put a piece of paper on top of the stencil
3. rub the crayon on top of the paper (you can tape it all down, but I prefer to just hold it with my hands)

A big perk of using a crayon is there is zero waiting for the crayon to dry and it won’t smear if you use something like watercolor on top of it.  The crayon acts a bit like a fence and keeps the watercolor in, so it looks like I painted carefully, but you know I am not that detail oriented!

What if you don’t have watercolors?  Try substituting with a spray ink.  In the video, I used a green Dylusions spray ink to get a similar look.

Use one color or multiple colors- the choice is yours and can give you a variety of looks.

All the color variation is simply adding more water to the watercolor or less water.  The less water that was added, the stronger the color. The more water that was added, the softer the color.  Instant variation!

Here are the supplies I used. Some of these links are affiliate links which means I get a small percentage. It doesn’t cost you anything extra and it helps keep the free tutorials coming!

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