I recenetly caught a heat gun on sale at a tool store the Old Man dragged me to. It was only 13.99 and I had read that it works better then a hair dryer on crayons so I jumped on it! I had it for a few days but didn't get a chance to use it til now. So here's what I did!
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First I cut a piece of foam board to the size desired and then painted with some acrylic paint. I couldn't find a paint brush so I used a old gift card to spread the paint and got this cool texture look. |
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Then I decided the order I wanted and glued them down with a hot glue gun. |
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Then I went to the basement with my heat gun and set the canvas at a tilt. |
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After seeing how it gathered at the bottom (I loved the swirls!) I decided to put another piece under it at a less vertical angle and then started again! |
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Close up. This is what I got off the other canvas. |
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Look at that metallic! |
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This is what I got when I pulled the original pool of crayon off the floor and melted it. I Think I am going to call this tree frog of death.... Catchy right? The death just because of the melted skull and tree frog because that's what I see like its coming out of the canvas! |
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This is just me throwing a skull in the middle and grabbing some crayons snapping off some pieces and then placing them randomly around the skull. Kind of looks like a skull coming out of some oooze and the crayon pieces look like pills. |
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This is the first one completed at the very beginning of this post. |
Sorry about the photo's they were all done from iphone and for some reason all have a shadow and I didnt see anything on the lens. Be careful when you melt metallic crayons they smoke if you stay over them too long.
I love how crafty you are! I love this!!! I LOVE the skulls~!~!~
ReplyDelete:D. I need a new skull mold I kinda baked this one too long lol.
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