Superheroes on Canvas

Child's colorful drawing of a girl with a dog, surrounded by a red-spotted border, on an art canvas.

In my summer art class, we painted superhero canvases. The kids decided what superhero they would like to be and drew these on dry wax paper with markers and colored pencils. Then I used gel medium (on the backs of the paper) to adhere their images to the canvas board. Then, they used paints to paint a background. I love them!! There is a link to the dry wax paper at the bottom of this post. The ages of my summer class was K-4th, mostly K and 1.

Child's drawing of a superhero wearing a colorful outfit with a rainbow trail behind them.

The drawing has been glued to the canvas.

Child's drawing of a girl in a pink dress holding an apple on a canvas, with a pink and white background.

Starting to paint the background

Two hands painting colorful superhero illustrations on separate canvases, with various art supplies scattered around.

Painting canvases

A child's colorful painting on canvas depicts a person holding hands with a bug, surrounded by a rainbow-like background.

A superhero that can turn things into animals!

A colorful, childlike drawing on canvas of a smiling person with yellow head and hands, an orange shirt, and blue pants.

Bomb dude… ok, so this one is a bit violent.

A child's drawing on canvas features a person in a purple dress holding a red object, set against a vibrant red and pink background.

Canvas painting of a child's drawing of a person in bright colors, set against a red background with scattered dark spots.

Below is the wax paper we used. As you can see it comes 2 boxes, 500 ct. each box, so this would last a LONG time. I found out about this stuff by reading Art Projects for Kids.. she uses dry wax paper a lot.