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A couple of weeks ago I posted a picture of my latest creation, a crayola melted crayon canvas. This materpiece has been along time in the making. When I was first pregnant with William and pinning away for baby and house ideas I saw this concept and immediately fell in love. I wasn’t expecting it to take 2 years before I’d get around to creating it but hey, an artist cannot be rushed!
There are alot of other posts with detailed instructions so I won’t reinvent the wheel but here are some helpful hints, tips and directions:
- I found leaving a slight gap between the crayons preferable – I wanted to see the drips on the canvas rather than it being {in my opinion} a hot mess all clumped together. But it’s is only a teeny tiny gap.
- Crayola crayons have the names written on the side, handy for grouping colours together so you can choose your order/pattern.
- Tesco have packs of 24 for 80p – considerably cheaper than Amazon’s £2.40 – shop around.
- You can take the papers off…I like the crayola-ness though but potato, potatoe.
- I bought this glue gun with the matching glue sticks and used it on the lower heat setting and left it 24 hours before ‘melting’ the crayons. Infact I ended up waiting about a week because I’m disorganised like that but most of the examples I read about just suggested 24 hours. Canvas’ can be pricey so shop around – I wanted one that was big but not too deep so bought this twin pack from Amazon.
- Don’t rush, it took a while before the wax started melting but I think if I’d have rushed it I’d have had a big splattering mess on my hands.
- I used my hairdryer, other people used a heat gun but I think that would be a bit fierce. Remember don’t move your dryer too much or too quicker – you’ll send the wax in a spin! You can use the cool shot on your hairdryer to stop drips at different levels.
- Once you’re happy with it lay it flat to go solid. I stepped back regularly to take a look at the overall effect. Remember you can always do a bit more, you can’t undo…
