Melted Crayon Art!

Greetings earthlings,

Because i haven't really selected a particular genre for this blog yet im going to try a bit of everything, so heres my first craft post! 

Melted Crayon Art: just as much fun as it sounds. 

I don't know about you but when i was in school i used to always melt crayons on the radiators for fun(rebel) so my excitement when i discovered something new could be done with them was palpable. 

The great thing about this form of art is that the end result, i think anyway, looks quite impressive for the amount of work that has to be put in. I got the idea from one of my favourite youtuber's Alfie from PointlessBlog. I enlisted the help of my other half(best friend not boyfriend..unfortunately!)It only took us about an hour in total. It was fun to do something so simple and fun together, it was like being a kid again. 

My beautiful friend at work! 

 First stage of melting (design is covered by card and masking tape) That pic is actually from my first canvas which was a complete fail but the second one looked the same at that stage :): 

The end result,purple rain! (Thats supposed to be funny cause theres a song called purple rain...)

What you need: 

One canvas- i got mine for 2 euro in euro2! 

Crayons- i bought two boxes in euro 2 so that id have a good choice of colours 

Super glue- I got mine in my ocal newsagents

Newspaper-to put underneath your canves so you don't ruin the surface underneath 

Hairdryer- to melt the crayons! 

Back paper- you can use what ever colour you want 

A pencil & a scissors- to draw and cut out your design 

Masking tape/newspaper and normal sellotape 

I'll try and explain simply what you need to do. 

Step 1. Glue your crayons along the top of the canvas. 

Step 2. Draw your design on your paper and cut it out. 

Step 3.Glue your design onto the canvas

Step 4. Cover your design in masking tape so it doesn't get covered in wax. If you don't have masking tape you can sellotape bits of newspaper over the design to protect it. 

Step 5.Leave the canvas lying flat on the ground for about 20 mins to make sure the glue holding the crayons on has dried. Trust me, it is not fun when you pick up the canvas and half the crayons fall off!

Step 6.Get out the hairdryer and get melting

Don't have the hairdryer too hot and make sure you don't melt them for too long! 

The canvas i have shown you here was my second attempt at melted crayon art. The first time i attempted melted crayon art, i had the hairdryer on a really hot setting and long story short i ended up with a canvas covered in melted wax, you wouldn't even know there had been crayons on it because they melted completely, It was a hot mess, literally.  

Once you begin melting the crayons you'll pretty much know what to do, A lot of it is up to your own personal taste, some people let the wax melt all the way down to the bottom of the canvas, the others halfway. It also depends on what design you have on your canvas as well. As you can see i have a woman holding an umbrella so i wanted the wax to pour down over her umbrella as if it were wax. Its pretty simple to get the wax to do what you want for the most part. I picked up the canvas and held it downwards or slightly to the side, depending on which way i wanted the wax to run. Once i got the wax to where i wanted it to be i would place the canvas down flat so that particular bit would dry exactly where it was. Once that bit dried, id pick it up and move on to the next bit. When you're finished and you like the design you have its best to leave it lying flat on a surface for about half an hour to dry. 

To be honest unless you do what i did the first time you're pretty much guaranteed to come out with a cool design. This is the type of art where perfection is not needed. 

I hope you guys enjoyed this post, let me know how you get on if you try it yourself! Also, please let me know if you like this genre of blog post or if you'd like me to move on to something new, or maybe return to something old. 

I was going to keep experimenting with genres until i find something that i think works... but what ive been doing so far seems to be working so maybe this blog will just be a bit of everything?? 

Stay classy, 

L xx