last look Think Outside the (Crayon) Box By Jodi Iverson
The project is incredibly simple but yields big, fun results. Long story short, you glue crayons to the top of a canvas, and blast them with a hair dryer! The colours then melt and run down the canvas, creating a beautiful mess also known as encaustic art.
materials • Canvas • Crayons
• Glue Gun • Blow dryer
make it! Step 1 Organize your crayons into your chosen pattern. Be creative, let your child experiment with colour! explain how the three primary colors red, blue and yellow can blend together to create secondary colors. My little artist chose to remove all the brown, white & black crayons from her project and grouped her crayons by colour.
Step 2 Lie the canvas flat and glue gun the crayons along the top of the canvas with tips facing down. Step 3 Stand the canvas upright on a drop cloth, the wax will splatter! Using your blow dryer heat up the crayons to melting point and watch your art come to life!
did you know?
Encaustic art is the technique of applying molten, coloured wax to various surfaces. The term Encaustic is derived from the Greek word enkaien meaning ‘to burn into’. The earliest and bestknown examples of used in the Fayum mummy portraits from Egypt around 100-300 AD.
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