the CRAYON caravan

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Crayons are one of the easiest colour medium to use. No mess, no bleeds, all too smooth until I discovered a way to mess around with them.

And this mess looks so beautiful!

Threesome

The background of this painting has been created with crayons and the colourful flowers in the foreground are done with acrylic colours.

The crayon background is not the usual technique of colouring with crayons. The crayons have been shredded and melted!

The Process

Get crayons of the colours depending on what you want to create. Like for this one, to create the sky, I shredded around four shades of blue starting from the darkest to the lighter blues. For the foreground cover, I used bright yellow and shades of green.

Each box has 12 different shades. So for larger number of crayon of the same colour, you got to buy multiple packs :-)

Crayons

Remove the paper cover from each one of them. Now that’s the boring part.
Shred the colours. You can use a sharpener or a shredder, whichever suits you. Shred each colour separately.

Shredded Crayons

When you are ready with all the colours, spread them on the base (I have used a canvas board). Mixing shades here and there as you would do while painting with water colours or acrylics.
Next step is to take a butter paper and cover the whole spread with it.
Switch on the iron (warm worked for me) and start from one corner and you will see the magic. The colors will start mixing. Move the iron lightly.
When yo are satisfied with the effect you want to create, switch off the iron and wait.
When the crayons solidify, remove the butter paper and there you go!

Crayon Background

Finally, I created the flowers with acrylic colours, using colours directly from the tubes on to the background.

Acrylic Flowers

Things can really go out of hand at times that is the colours mix too fast and you dont get the intended mix of colours, the base becomes uneven and so on. The mantra is patience, especially when you are melting the crayons for the first time. I would suggest don’t start straight away on the actual base you wish to use.

Experiment a bit to decide

how many crayons are required to fill
how warm or hot the iron should be
what amount of pressure to apply

So, hop on the CRAYON CARAVAN and have fun!

P.S. This crayon acrylic mix is one of paintings from the set ‘Threesome’. The collection is ‘Gardenia’.

Threesome

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Anuradha Gakhar is an amateur artist who happens to take refuge in the solace of art and creativity!.