If like me you thought wax crayons were more in the realm of kids craft then think again! Yesterday I saw this blog post and was amazed!
Apparently this way of using crayons has been popular for some time but I hadn't seen it before, if you Google "crayon art" lots of links come up.
So, this morning I nipped out to get some crayons......these were 99p.....cheap enough to play around with and experiment.
Glue a selection along the top of your background......I used an old book cover
Heat with heat gun.......the wax flows out and down the background......it's quite hard to control where it goes!
I like the way the tubes are left empty with the wax flowing out..............
added a bit of decoration................
Next I tried another idea........this time cut the crayons in half and then wrapped them in old book page and glued to a small box.......heated again till the wax flowed out
Heated a yellow crayon and flicked and dripped the wax over the box......also coloured the little doll figure with a little wax
This was great fun and I think I will use the idea...or an adaptation of it....again.
17 comments:
That's very interesting.... Fabulous effects
I tried something similar to this a few years ago and enjoyed the effect it gave but didn't know what to do with the floods I made! Love the way you have made the crayons part of your art and the combinations of colours! I seem to remember not putting much thought into which colours to place next to each other and it was all a bit random! Nice to see you the other day! Chrisx
So glad you liked my post! I LOVE what you did with the book, I'll have to expand on that idea, your project turned out FAB.
I love the mermaid swimmimg in the seaweed.. fab technique.. can't wait to see what else you do with it :)
Suzi B x
i've been meaning to try this for a while too Sue. love what you've done her. always different.
This looks amazing!
Great effect and idea, I will have to try , looks great fun. Love it Sue. Tracy x
Thank you for sharing! Renee rocks ;D
I love both effects!~
looks really amazing!
That is really cool.
that looks like so much fun, I need to find crayons now, I know I have some somewhere.
oh what a lovely, messy colourful thing to do. I simply MUST have a go!!!!Mx
Cool, cool, cool - so beautiful too!! Wow, thanks for passing on the idea!!
Alison x
I love this.....especially the book paper around the cut crayons, fab idea.
bRILLIANT! Thanks, for sharing the idea
Oh I likey like very much I love the book covered ones. I am going to put this on my Pintrest page if that's ok it will be linked by to your work/blog page Dxx
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