I had been wanting to do one of these crayon melty art things ever since I first saw one of my Anthro girlfriends do it over the summer. I figured, it'd be simple enough! The one she did was just colors on a blank white canvas. I decided I wanted to add a little flavor to mine.
I picked some of my favorite lyrics... that somehow symbolically would work well with the crayons. I chose lyrics from the song, "Rain" by Patty Griffin: "Strange how it rains now" I put some foam cut-out letters onto the canvas and then painted black over it. Once dried, I peeled off the letters to get the white letters you see below!
Then I put the colors in the color order desired. I chose not to start with the traditional red to indigo scale... I wanted to go from warm colors, to cool, and back to warm. :) I think my colors worked well! Hot glue gunning each crayon onto the canvas was a bit tedious, but you got the hang of it after awhile. Then after making sure the crayons were nice and glued... I took my blow dryer and blow dried the crap outta these crayons. I did it in waves... mostly because I got tired... but I think it gave it a really nice pattern. You can tell where I stopped and started again because there's a significant break in color blobs! I feel like it well represents the "when it rains it pours" idea... once you think it's over... here's another wave of crap.
Other favorite lyric from this song:
"I'm not looking for the rest of your life
I just want another chance to live..."
Soon you'll probably see one that Amber and I made together!
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