Taking a Break

Don't worry! I am still making crayon pieces. But I wanted to also experiment with other mediums.

Acrylic paint on canvas and craft glue

I've always had a love for photography. 

Experimentation with craft chalk on bristol.

Hopefully soon I will make another crayon piece!

The Aftermath (so far)

Creating things with crayons can get a little messy.

Trying to store my stash of leftover crayons and wrappers takes up unnecessary space. 

One of the many drop cloths. I actually cut this one up and framed the pieces because I thought it was pretty neat. 

I've been discovering splatters on the walls where I have worked. Oops... :/

And lets not talk about the smell. The smell of opening a new box of crayons is okay, but having it on your hands for several hours afterwards gets old.

The mess is not fun, but it is all worth it. :)

The Sitting Crayon Idol

In order to show off my melted crayon skills in my 3D class for the final project, I did this:

I bought the chair for $10 at a flea market. Later, I found out that it was made in the 1920's while tearing it apart. The seat got a total makeover. Originally, it was a vinyl with mystery stuffing. That was all removed and immediately thrown away. I cut the new seat with a jigsaw and screwed it on with hinges (which is the hardest thing to install, by the way). The whole purpose of the hinged seat is to create storage for a sketchbook and pencils, incase you come up with an idea you want to sketch while your sitting in this chair. Haha. 

The next step was to add the melted crayons. This part was very tedious. Each crayon was glued on, then melted with a hair dryer. During the melting process, I accidentally killed the class's hair dryer and almost murdered mine. After it was all a melted mess, I mod podged some crayon wrappers on the seat and some of the railing. It's on the railing, because at that point, I was out of crayons. :/

The inside is painted white, with crayon graffiti written in it. My mom had fun at this part. 

Overall, it is a good prototype. It could use some more crayons though. As my professor Melissa Vandenberg would say, More is More. :)

Bring on the Fan Art

To make my art a little more famous, I decided to do some notable subjects. Both of these received high praise on Pinterest. Although not repinned as often as I had liked, people are beginning to notice what I can do with just some old melted crayons and a half broken hair dryer.

The Mockingjay Pin from the Hunger Games. I wanted to use the really cool metallic gold crayons for this one. 

Winnie the Pooh was a gift for a friend's mother for mother's day. She ended up paying me, which makes this my first sold piece! I love how I used darker crayons for the shading on this.

Wannabe Youtube Celeb

On the next few of my projects, I decided to film them and put them on Youtube. Here is the most popular one:

This particular one was a gift for my mom. It now hangs in her office. The video has 151 views. Not too bad. But the other half in me wishes for more views.
I have posted several other videos on my channel like the above one. Please watch them!

Finding the Perfect Medium

Being an art student isn't what it seems. Well, at least for me it isn't.
I had no art experience what-so-ever going into the art/design program at EKU. So having 3 hour studio classes all the time where you have to think creative thoughts all the time calls for me to keep the Excedrin well stocked in the medicine cabinet. Learning about all the cool art mediums was great, but they seemed so conventional and old-fashioned. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with good ol' pencil and paper (that's what I'm good at), but there has to be other ways of expressing ideas out there.
Then I discovered Pinterest. And the melted crayons on the canvas. Ya know, like this:

Seemed easy enough. Just hot glue the crayons on stretched canvas, and let the hair dryer do the rest. But this was so easy. Why not take it to the next level? Why not use the meltiness as a drawing medium?
That's when I took it from the above picture, to this:

I put this on Pinterest. And the next morning, my email was full of messages from the Pinterest team about how this was repinned here and liked there. I was a somewhat celebrity. But overall, I had found my perfect medium. :)