Exercise Using resists experimentally

Given past experience I am not a fan of resists, possibly because there an element of preparation that prevents me from putting paint on the paper... like taking time to work things out in a sketchbook before moving on to the final piece ... I acknowledge the benefit or not jumping straight in would result in a better final outcome,  but once I find the time to paint these initial steps  are quickly forgotten.

In this sketch I have drawn the outline of a footballer in masking fluid and used wax the define the lines and some creases on the footballer's shirt

There is a print like quality to the end result, which I like  but this is a happy accident rather than a an intended outcome.

In the following study I painted a boxer a, celebrating a victory, here I had clear vision of the end result.. get the detail of the boxer down first and then add the background dark with the odd light sprinkled about where the crowd would be seated. 

Once the boxer was dry I rubbed candle wax over the painted figure only so that I could be as heavy handed with the back ground as I was wanted, I dabbing the excessive paint off of the figure... 

In the following exercise I have taken frozen watercolour and left it to defrost on  paper that I had loosely drawn a pattern on with masking fluid, my take on Andy Goldworthy Snow ball painting referenced in the course notes.

Didn't get the coverage, to get the full impact of the masking fluid marks, should have made more watercolour ice cubes.

Looking for figurative elements in the outcome, I turned the painting up side down.. I can make out some sort of elephant type creature,  standing next to a cobra...yes vivid imagination.

Black pen and watercolour picture based on the above:

In my second ice cube painting, I have purposely combined grey and reds having been drawn to this combination of colours in the first of the collage exercise.

As I placed the masking fluid and frozen watercolour on the paper, I am thinking volcano