Melted Crayon Art

Step 2: Melt!

Once all your crayons are glued down, prop your canvas up at a gentle angle. I used a glass of water. Make sure the bottom edge is over your newspaper.

Turn on your heat tool or hair dryer. If you're using a hair dryer, you'll need to put it on a low blower setting or use a diffuser, otherwise it will spatter the wax everywhere.

Focus the heat on the crayons. They will quickly turn sweaty, then start dripping down the canvas.

You can change the tilt of the canvas to control how fast the drips go.

Once you're satisfied with how it looks, let it cool a few minutes and hang it up!

Comments

[Penolopy Bulnick]

Very nice; I love things that are colorful. What if you attached the crayons to something else and secured it to the top of the canvas but then could take them off afterwards? Then you could use the crayons over for other paintings and experiment with placement and color arrangment?

[kansasa]

I've seen someone put a strip of masking tape at the top and then glue the crayons down to the tape, once they finished melting them they pulled up the masking tape to remove the crayons, seemed to work pretty good. :)

[Flyinseamnky]

Maybe use a metal cookie sheet slightly overlapping the edge of the canvas. It would also help hold and conduct the heat. Or What about pulling the whole crayons up, and then mixing the original colors up? so it looks like the colors are dripping from different color crayons. Oh or put all black crayons that look like they are leaking their colors. You could even mount new crayons still in the original sleeves after removing the melted ones. So many cool ideas! makes me want to run out and get a canvas and a box of crayons!

[belyse3]

Great Idea! Just bought my canvas, gonna get my crayons and try this out.

[mrsbelcher]

Love love love this idea. I'm going to start out with a small canvas and see how that turns out. If it's good I'll try a larger one. Thanks for a simple but beautiful crafting idea!!

[linny]

A quick way to remove paper crayon wrappers is submerge the crayons in a bowl of water for a few minutes first. Let the kids help peel them off.

[JosiePosie76]

I am going to make one tomorrow... My cousin is gay... And they have an assortment of rainbow things around the house... But this is going to be the coolest thing ever! Thank you so much! Also... My mom loves blues...so I think I am going to buy a few boxes of crayons and work on something for her as well.. Awesome idea! You rock!!

[thipp1]

Just a heads up. Crayola crayons work best, some crayons are really oily and when you try to melt them, then oil will run and mess up your creation.

[BRUL]

it's because the crayola crayons have wax as medium. I would indeed not use oil pastels for this.

[kellimaier]

This is nice...you can also paint the canvas first for added color or to make a contrasting or harmonizing background.