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. :)