I had no idea wanted to do. I want to the dollar store and looked around to see if I could get any ideas. I was in the art section and notice some blank canvases. It then gave me an idea to do the melted crayon art. So I bought the canvas and the rest of the supplies and went home to get started.
Materials I used:
- Book (old or new, I bought a book at the dollar store for $1)
-Scissors
- 11 by 14 canvas
- 2x 24 pack of crayons
-xacto knife
-ruler
-paint brush or sponge
-white school glue
-painters tap
-Paint
My first idea was to cut out a silhouette of a book character uses one of the pages of the book. For this idea I was either going to use alice from alice in wonderland or peter pan. But then I had a better idea.
Step one: I don't have the neatest writing so I went on to the computer and found a really nice bubble front and used the front to write "we accept the love we think we deserve" from perks of being a wallflower. After I had printed it out, I traced the letters onto a blank page from the book. Then I used an xacto knife to cut out the letters. Tracing out letter and cutting them out was probably the longest parts of the project.
Step two: Using a ruler, I lined up where I wanted my text to go and glued it down. I did not want it to close to the top so the crayons had a bit of room to melt and I also did not want it to close to the bottom or else the crayon would not melt around it. As you can see in the picture bellow there is some bubbles and there will be some bubbles when glueing the rest of the canvas, but don't worry it will go away when dry. When I saw the bubbles, I thought "what have I got my self into", and was rejected the decision to be artsy for this weeks post.
Step three: Next I took out pages from the book and cut them into different sizes and shape. Then I glued them around the text so the overlapped each but does not cover over the text. I let it dry and cut off overhang paper around the edges.
Step four: The next step was to figure out what colours I wanted from the box of crayola crayons I bought. I used almost every colour except beige, brown, and black. After that I had to take the wrapper off all the crayons. The task was a little tricky but i found that an xacto knife makes it easier.
Now they way I organized me crayons is I put one white on each end then I started with pink fading into red then fading into to purple then to blue then green, then fading into yellow and lastly orange. I put two of the same colour beside each other and followed this patterned. Another idea would be start at red or whatever colour you choose and go all the way to orange and then go from orange to red again so you will have red on both ends.
(Here is the colours I have choose and the order I wanted them in minus the white the go on each end)
Step five: After you find the colours you want and what order, you glue them on with a hot glue gun but be careful because the hot glue can melt the crayon. Once you glued them on it comes to the fun part which is heated the crayons up. This is the part the kinda turned it into a fail but also added to my picture. I was looking in the tool room for any painters tape but I could not find any. I looked through the other tapes that I had to find one the was not to sticky and would not come off after I melted the crayons or was going to rip my art. I found a tape that I thought was going to work but it was not sticky enough and kept peeling. Anyways once you found tape, the next step is to tape over the quote so no crayon gets on it. once that is done it is time for the next step
Step six: Next it is time to heat up the crayons. The best way to do this is using a hair dryer. This part takes a bit of time before the crayons get hot enough to start melting. I tried to blend the colours as much as possible. While doing this step because the tape was not sticky enough the crayon was melting underneath the tape and when I peeled the tape some of the letters got crayon on it. Right away I rubbed the crayon off which did give colour around the letters on the blank paper that could not be cover with the paper with text on it but I also stained the letters a bit and I was making it hard to read. Now I would have gotten a photo of this kinda fail but I was so stressed and worked up on trying to fix it that by the time I remembered I had already in mid processes of the next step.
Step seven: The last step, which you might not even need if you did not mess up like I do, is fixing your kinda fail. The way I did this is paint over the letters with red paint and you have to be really careful not to get paint outside the letters. Once it is dry your bookish DIY is finished.
I hope you liked this weeks post. Leave a comment down below of other bookish DIY's you would like me to try. If you want to see the final product from this post, head over to our instagram @the_readingcafe
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