Pink Floyd Melted Crayon Art

                                                           

This look good, guys? Great, let's get started!

So this is how it starts out, eh? My first first craft :') So proud! There won't be many pictures because I didn't know I was going to make this blog when I did it, therefore I didn't take any pictures except the finished product. Anywho, I got my inspiration from this when I saw all the hair-dryer melted crayon stuff on Pinterest. I typed in "melted crayon art" and this came up in the search..

I then typed in "Pink Floyd melted crayon art". Here's some others I saw beforehand- http://pinterest.com/search/?q=melted+crayon+art+pink+floyd

After I saw this, I got the itch for crafting. Or, projecting as a friend of mine says. I got a friend of mine to help me out and we got started.

You will need...

- A canvas, poster, something like that (WHITE!)

-Tape (I used blue painter's tape)

-Crayons (I got the cheap dollar store brand, you'll only need one pack)

-Hair dryer

-Hot glue gun (either an old one you won't need anymore or buy a cheap one specifically for crayons..you won't be able to use glue in it after)

-Paint (Preferably spray paint!!! Read the note below if you want to know why) 

-Newspaper (prep by putting it on the floor all around you!)

1) Start by taking the poster board and taping a triangle with the painter's tape. The picture from Pinterest didn't do this, but I did..add a white line coming off the left of the triangle pointing slightly downward..Pink Floyd's logo is like a prism, therefore you're gonna need that white beam from the left. 

2) Paint/Spray paint the board black. 

3) Let the paint dry COMPLETELY

4) When the paint's dry, peel off the painter's tape SLOWLY!!!

5) Take one of the white crayons from your pack and peel the paper off..the one on Pinterest didn't, but I did..I thought it looked neater. Then, hot glue the crayon onto the edge of the left of the triangle aligned with the white strip I talked about earlier (Look at MY picture to see just how I lined up the crayon!). Get your hair dryer out, it's time to melt some crayons!! Turn the poster on it's side, the right side touching the ground covered in newspaper. Then, turn the hair dryer on hot and hold the stream of air at the tip of the crayon with which you write. Alternate the power of the air stream so it doesn't make your crayon go crazy..and don't melt too much, YOU DO NOT WANT THE CRAYON TO FALL OFF. It will roll and get all the white melted wax on the black part, and that's bad. If this DOES happen to you, read the note at the bottom of this post to see what you should do, because it happened to me for not only the one I did but the one I did for a friend.

6) The white crayon wax will dry relatively quick, and when it's dry, get out your other colors and glue gun. Peel the paper off of the crayons and put them in the rainbow order so you can easily get them when you need them. Only get the basics of the rainbow and then get one of the colors you won't use, I used the apricot color, and put it at the end beside purple. 

7) Let the gun heat up completely, and get your red crayon! Set the poster board on it's right side just like we did for the white crayon. Feed the red crayon into the glue gun like you would the stick of glue. Let the crayon melt through the gun and move the gun so the wax will drip where you want it to. When you can't get to the red anymore to do the end of the crayon, get your next color, orange, and feed it through the glue gun. It will push the rest of the red out. 

8) Repeat this with all the colors until you get to purple..purple is the final color you should use, but how do you get the tip of the purple out??! Remember that apricot/whatever color you won't use from before? That's how. Use that color to push the rest of the purple out but don't let the apricot be fed completely through. When all the purple is out, pull the apricot back out and turn the glue gun off. 

9) You're done! Let the wax cool and harden and ta-da! 

GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY PROJECTING! Hopefully my new post will be much better and have lots more pictures!

-Savannah

Note: If you're reading this you must have let that white crayon roll down the side of your nice black poster board and ruined it. I spray painted mine, so I'm not quite sure what to tell you if you used regular paint, because I have no experience of how well a fix will work. But if you DID use spray paint and this happened to you, I have a way to make it look a bit better. Think about it..these crayons are washable and the spray paint is permanent.. So, first get paper towels handy..both dry and wet. Take a paper towel and wet the end. Put your fingernail behind the wet paper towel and GENTLY begin scratching the white wax off. As soon as you think you've scratched it all off, take another wet paper towel and wipe it gently, then take a dry paper towel and get rid of the moisture. You may need to repeat a few times and play around with it (Scratch the wax in different directions). Note that it won't come off completely, but this can help. Take one of those super duper big Sharpie markers, or any sharpie really, and dab on the places wax was at. This will help darken it. Lucky for me, my spray paint and Sharpie were almost identical to each other..so it blended near perfectly. GOOD LUCK AND ENJOY PROJECTING!