Melty Art

So I've been seeing this all over the Internet lately but I didn't know how to do it until now. I looked it up and found it is very easy. So here we go: my adventure in making art with old crayons.
1. Cover your workspace with newspaper. This is very important as melted wax is messy etc.

2. Gather supplies... You need lots of crayons. I used old ones.

5. Arrange them in any order

3. If you want to, you may unwrap them. I did this, as I don't like the look of the Labels and my crayons are of various brands.

4. Hot glue your crayons one by one along the top edge of the canvas. I snapped mine in half as my canvas was smaller but you may leave them whole, it is really up to you.

5. I added a drawing to mine. This was inspired my many I saw with umbrellas and people so credit where credit is due. Draw them in pencil first. If you have umbrellas, cut out cardboard as shown and attach with tape loops to keep the wax off. You may need to press down on these to hold them in place when you are melting nearby.

6. This is the fun part. Lean your canvas against something, and take a blow dryer to the crayons :) melt as much as you like. I recommend keeping the blow dryer pointing straight down, otherwise the wax may "splatter" to the sides and mix the colors.

7. Remove the cardboard and paint your silhouettes or fill with sharpie. I had to cut out one figure because the wax got under the cardboard, so just make sure to thoroughly cover the area you want clean.

Enjoy! :)