Mila, from Latvia originally and now living in the UK, shares with us how to create a beautiful piece of melted crayon art. Let’s take a look…
What did you do?
I have a hot glue gun and melted crayons idea
Crayons rainbow rain
Things you need:
- Hot glue gun
- Crayons
- Black paint
- Painting brush
- Paper tape
- ScissorsPiece of hard paper
- Plain canvas or thick piece of paper ( I used A4 for watercolours paints)
Instructions:
- Choose a desired silhouette on google. You can print it out and cut, I just drew it directly on my paper.
- Remove wrapping from crayons. Crayola might be too thick to fit in a glue gun, therefore will need shaving. No name wax crayons fitted just fine in my glue gun.
- Arrange crayon in rainbow order – the blending works better this way.
- Cover your umbrella so the crayons don’t go on your silhouette. I used a piece of hard paper and paper tape to attach it.
- Empty your glue gun from the glue, just squeeze all out when hot.
- Arrange your Canvas or paper nearly in standing position, I had it approximately in 60 degrees position. Make sure you cover your table as crayons are messy when melting.
- Place first crayon in the glue gun and let it warm out. Try to squeeze a bit on a tissue or spare piece of paper to get a feel how it works and make sure the colour is clean.
- Start emptying the glue gun into your drawing. As the size of my picture was not big, I sometimes used only half of the crayon. If you still have more left in your gun, but feel it is enough of this colour, just empty it on a paper towel or disposable plate and continue with the next colour.
- Once you are satisfied with the result, remove your protective paper and colour in your silhouette.
Tell us a bit about yourself…
My name is Mila, I am from Latvia originally, but now live in UK for nearly 7 years. You can read more about Mila and Marilena on their other article here.
