Melted Crayon Art - Water Soluable Oil Pastels

This week I used water soluable oil pastels to highlight and add shadow.  I like the affect the heated oil pastel gives with the crayon.  It basically separates from the crayon giving lots of texture.

Supplies are:  board/hard canvas/or cardboard, crayon, water soluable oil pastels, hot glue gun, and a heat gun  or hair dryer, 

A video of this project can be found at:  http://youtu.be/Jmw_3SiQRGg 

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Melted Crayon Art - 4th in series - Melted Crayon with Paper

You can watch a video of this project at http://youtu.be/NcpG0afxEPM

This is the 4th in a series.  You can find more melted crayon how to videos on youtube.  Look for Art Dwellers on the youtube site.

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In this project you will need:

Hot glue gun
Crayons
Contact Paper
Pointed Object
Paper
Board or cardboard
Heat gun or hair dryer
Paraffin wax or bees wax (optional)

Melted Crayon Art - 2nd in Series - Using Stencils

This week I used stencils with melted crayon.  Using paraffin wax along with the stenciled crayon softens the look and creates depth in your  art.  To see a video on this technique go to:  http://youtu.be/TErtiDdrmuU

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Melted Crayon

 I thought I would try melted crayon art with my students a few years ago.  What a mess and how stinky!  Other teachers were not impressed that they had to smell what we were doing in our artroom.  So I needed to come up with another way to melt crayon without the smell.  I found that melting the crayon with the end of a glue gun worked beautifully.  Very inexpensive to buy glue guns, lots of control in painting, not so smelly, and oh so many effects...

 What's great about melted crayon is that the results are unexpected like watercolor, dries quick like acrylic, and you can get a lot of texture like oil.

I will share these effects with you over the next few weeks, making available one video each Monday for you to look at.  It's a lot of fun, and great for kids of all ages.

You can find the first video at:  http://youtu.be/57FR1XYDdoA

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Twelth Day After Christmas Recycled Craft: Stained Glass

TWELTH DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS RECYCLED CRAFT:  STAINED GLASS

Supply list:  paper, tissue paper, glue, scissors, string, and pencil.

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Eleventh Day After Christmas Craft: Giraffe

The Eleventh Day After Christmas Craft: Giraffe

Supply List: paper, scissors, glue, ribbon or string, clothes pins (optional), tissue paper, 4 bottle caps, black marker, and cardboard.

You can watch a how to video for this project at www.facebook.com/artdwellers or  http://youtu.be/41PslILTC80

Tenth Day After Christmas Recyled Craft: Owl

Tenth Day After Christmas Recycled Craft: Caterpillar

Supply List:  Two strips of paper approx. 1" X 24", enough white paper for eyes, glue, marker, tissue paper, and scissors.

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Ninth Day After Christmas Craft: Fan

Ninth Day After Christmas Craft:  Fan

Watch the how-to video at:  http://youtu.be/D9AGI2Hl46Q  or www.facebook.com/artdwellers.  Supply List:  72X8 inch piece of paper (you may need to glue sheets of paper together for the length), scissors, glue, 1X24 inch sticks (paint stirrers work well), or heavy cardboard, and ribbon.

"What did the snowman eat for lunch?"  Find the answer at the end of this video.

Eighth Day After Christmas Recycled Craft: Banner

Eighth Day After Christmas Recycled Craft:  Banner

Supply List:  Paper, glue, string, scissors, and cardboard.

Watch how to video on:  http://youtu.be/ESn3EOqF-zg

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Seventh Day After Christmas Recycled Craft: Owl

Seventh Day After Christmas Recycled Craft:  Owl

Supply List:  toilet tissue roll, glue, tissue paper, paper, and scissors.

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