Crayon art

This was a fun craft but can become messy very quickly. I started by just finding an image from Google that I liked. Once I found the perfect silhouette I printed it out on regular printer paper, cut it out, then used Modge Podge to paste it to the canvas.

Once the Modge Podge had dried I covered the people in tinfoil and used scotch tape to hold it in place.  This is all I had on hand but it still worked great! I also used the tinfoil to make a wall so that the wax wouldn't just stop at the tinfoil but drip down like rain on an umbrella. My next step was to set up my working area. I just used newspaper, I doubled up the paper at the bottom of the canvas because I figured there would be a lot of dripping, I was right :)

After I was all set up I let the glue gun heat up while I peeled the crayons.  I almost gave up when trying to peel the crayons this was no where near as easy as I remember it being in elementary school. I finally had the brilliant idea to soak the crayons in water! This worked great there were a few stubborn papers but for the most part the paper just unraveled once soaked.

Once the glue gun was warmed up I inserted my first crayon just like you would a glue stick,  Once the crayon was melted the wax pretty much just dripped out of the tip of the gun. Occasionally I would need to pull the trigger this created a much longer stream of wax. I just continued this process until I had used all the crayons I peeled.  I used 10 crayons for this project, I did not do anything special to come up with this number I just pulled all of the blueish crayons out of a 64 count Crayola box.

To get a steady stream of wax to drip I had to push the crayon into the back of the glue gun, I remember having to do this with the regular glue sticks so this is nothing new. The crayon melts much faster then glue so if you push too hard the wax will splatter. An example is in the picture below. I know this because it it happened to me, I even splattered wax on the wall of my apartment! Thankfully a magic eraser removed it, I was not going to lose my deposit due to a pinterest craft gone wrong!

Finished product! I would really like to do three more in red, yellow, and green and hang them on a wall in a square similar to something Andy Warhol would do.