Friday, August 10, 2012

Crayon art part 3: A crayon "Nightmare" experiment. I hope I get it done before "Christmas".


So I had been seeing these crayon art online on Pintrest and tried a few different ways such as this.

Part one.
Part two.
I had a special idea and could see the scene of Nightmare of Christmas in my mind. So I got to work! First I researched and found a image of the scene I was looking at. Then I had to scope how I was going to do this. I had thought about cutting the crayons up and then organizing them and hitting it with a blow dryer to melt it. Well that wouldnt work because they would just blow away! Now if I had a heat gun It would work but I was not trying to go out and buy one. This project took about a week just in the planning stage. I was on Pintrest again  and I saw THIS . So then I knew how to attack this project so I started working.


First I sketched my image on to a canvas board.

Then I pulled out my candles.
I have a ton of these.


Then I got to work I used matches for the first time! I heated the crayon till it looked like it might drip. I tried the dot method as shown in the post that inspired this but it didn't work for me even with crayola. All I got was these craters of crayon so I started to "paint" with the crayons. By paint I mean that I heated up the crayons to the point it almost drips and then rolled it around on the canvas.
 Now when I got to the moon I ran into some issues. It may be because of the candles I used because they were painted but the lighter crayons burned when I tried to heat them up.

(I'm going to try this again i the future with plain white ones next time.)Once I burned down the candle and it was just puddle of wax and dropped the match into it. I was finally able do the moon and the ground without blackening the crayon.


Finished!.

I loved making this and thinking about making more including a Nightmare before Christmas acrylic painting. Halloween is coming up and I'm working on all kids of ideas! 



13 comments:

  1. Wow, that takes some talent, which I have none of! haha Very nice!

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    1. I'm a photo copy I can copy and image but making my own is hard for me. I need something to look at when I draw.

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  2. I would love to learn how to do this with crayons. My kids would love to use their old crayons to create with like this. Thanks for sharing this idea!

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  3. This is awesome! Such a great halloween/christmas decoration!

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  4. LOVE how this turned out! Thanks for letting me know, and thanks for linking. :)

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  5. this looks so awesome! you did a fantastic job on it

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    1. Thank you :) I am really getting into this whole crayon phase.

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  6. That is fantastic!! You did a great job :)

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  7. Wow that is great....I love it!!!

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