Grandma's Garden- Crayon Art. It's hard to find a good present for our grandma (actually, she's my mom, but Anya's grandma).
"I have everything," she says always. Ok, we will not buy a present, we will make it! My mom has a beautiful garden in Russia. She grows everything there: potatoes, cucumbers, tomatoes, carrots, cabbage, apples, strawberries, black and red currants, gooseberries... and it's not all. Her favorites are flowers. My mom's birthday is in February.
To make a piece of art, we used canvas (12"x12"), crayons (we used 3 boxes to pick only greens), artificial flowers, glue gun and hair drier. Turn canvas upside down so crayons are pointing down. Today I made a little different picture- Fire of Love. Super Simple Fontalicious Wall Art. If anyone asked me what my personal style was, I would say you could sum it up in the photo above.
I LOVE fonts, bold&graphic art, stripes, and pops of color. I had been eying the wrapping paper the project is sitting on above for quite a while before I purchased it at Michaels. It would make fab wallpaper or shelf liner. Or you could do as I did and use it for a photography backdrop. Miss Make: Tutorial: Melted Crayon Art. Last week I posted my crayon art tutorial on Instructables, a huge website with tons of how-tos for all kinds of projects.
I'm excited to say that it made the front page! Woooo! I wanted to post the pictures here too in case anyone lands on my blog. So here's my take two on a melted crayon art tutorial: Melted Crayon Art Materials: a blank canvas crayons, new or old (I needed about 60-70 for my 16" x 20" canvas) a utility or exacto knife (optional, for peeling the crayons) hot glue gun heat tool or a hair dryer with a diffuser or low blower setting First cover your work surface in newspaper.
Then decide what kind of color spectrum you are going to do. Take the wrappers off all the crayons you're going to use. Next lay out your crayons along the top edge of your canvas until you like how the sequence of colors looks. Then hot glue each one down right next to one another with the tops flush to the top of the canvas.