Technique Time

Crayon Art

There have been a lot of inquiries on how to make this crayon art, so I put one together along with a tutorial for you all. It was easy, fun and turned out very colourful. I think this one will most likely end up in Rebecca's room some day, but for now it can be found on display at the studio for you to check out in person.

You will need a pack of crayola crayons, a canvas, hot glue gun, hair dryer or heat gun, some flowers from your miss matched stash and some bling. The size of your canvas will determine the amount of crayons you will require. I picked up a pack of 64 crayons and used 43 of them on a 13" square canvas.

So lets get started.

Plug in your heat gun so it's nice and hot and ready to go. Make sure you have extra glue sticks handy in case you run out.

In the mean time take your crayons out of the pack and sort them in a straight line by shade. Once this is done place your canvas at one end and count out how many crayons are extra {if any}. Remove the extra crayons, by choosing some from each colour family to make sure your colours balance out until you have the right amount to cover your canvas from left to right.

Place your crayons on your canvas, in the order you would like to glue them down, just above where they will be placed. Your glue gun should be nice and hot by now. Place three strips of glue across the canvas, one where the center of the crayon will be and one below and the other above.

Please be generous with the amount of glue, it will not melt your crayons, but you do want to ensure that they stay on the canvas permanently. Also, please make sure you turn the "Crayola" logo up so that it is visible on the top of the crayon. This will give your canvas a uniformed look.

Once you have all your crayons glued down it's time to melt them and let them drip down your canvas. If you don't have a heat gun a hair dryer will work just fine. My heat gun has gone MIA so I had to borrow Gabriella's hair dryer and it worked just fine.

Place your canvas upside down and on high heat, and your fan on low to medium start melting the crayons and allowing them to drip. Placing your fan on high will create splatters. I know because my canvas has them. Once some of the crayon has melted and dripped a few inches you can heat the melted drips to make them drip further or make them different lengths. This will be your choice of how you would like to see your finished product.

You can now flip your canvas right side up and add some flowers. I chose some flowers from my stash that didn't have a match for my "rule of three" and placed them on the canvas where the colour matched the crayon drips. I used Beacon 3-in-1 glue, it drys clear and fast.

My last step was to add some bling to the flower centers. This added some dimension to the upper section of the canvas. And my project was done. From start to finish this took all of 30 minutes.

Give it a go..... crayons are on sale these days for back to school ... we have the canvas and adhesive in the studio and if you don't want to do it on your own come on down to the studio and I will gladly help you out.

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