Keep Calm and Stay Creative - Dark Side of the Moon Melted Cray DIY

Day 5 Keep Calm and Photo Challenge: Creativity

In honor of today's photo challenge for creativity, here's a How-to for the melted crayon interpretation of Pink Floyd's Album cover.

I couldn't get enough of melting crayons with the palm of my hand so I made this and gave it as a gift to my roommate!

1) I started with a black canvas I bought from Michael's -  more expensive than white canvases, but it's worth it. $5

2) I had a big white paint Sharpie (lovingly known as obese Sharpie) laying around so I drew the triangle as centered as I could

3) I cut the crayons in half, keeping the color label side, and then glued them on

I glued them on with the color label showing because I thought it added a nice touch:

4) Melting the white crayon was tricky. It splatters everywhere! But I held the canvas so that the crayon was pointing straight down and directed the splatter the best I could.
I did the same with the colors and it turned out so great!

*Make sure you do this in an open area. I opened a window and did everything on the window sill to prevent all the melting wax fumes from invading my room.


This project only cost me - $5 for the canvas + 8 crayons out of a 24 crayon box ~50cents = $5.50

I'll be posting up more crafts and DIYs so
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