1/17/2024 0 Comments Wax play ideas![]() There are certain bits of each piece that I find really beautiful - I love how the colors worked and played together overall and how easy it was to continue manipulating when I didn’t like exactly how it was turning out. In the little 8x8 blue + purple colored canvas (shown above on the right) I used a few metallic crayons which I think add a pretty sparkly celestial feel. I bought a few of them back when I made these, and every piece had a serious NASA starry, exploding nebula, outer space vibe. Have you ever seen the black stretch-mounted canvasses they sell at the craft store? They’re really cool and work really well in emphasizing melted wax art like this! Plus they save you the trouble of wasting black paint to create a black background. Sprinkle in some more colors and continue until you like what you see! And if you don’t like the outcome? Easy! Stick it back in the oven to let it heat back up, and tilt it around a little more when it’s liquified again. Within a matter of a half-minute, it will have re-hardened and set. Lightly tilt the canvas back and forth, up and down, to continue to blend and swirl and marble your colors together as desired. ![]() When you pull out the canvas - making sure to hold it flat - you have about ten seconds of playtime while the wax is still liquid - this ten seconds is by far the most fun part. ![]() (This oven bake method only works if your canvas is small enough to fit inside of your oven, obviously!) If you go this route, just make sure to set a timer so you don’t get distracted and walk away for too long. It’s super fast, and in no time at all the wax has turned to liquid and your piece is ready to come out of the oven and cool. (i also laid a larger piece of aluminum foil directly underneath my canvas to catch any wax that spilled over.) (on its lowest possible temperature setting which for me is about 180-200 degrees Fahrenheit) It sits straight on the rack for no more than 2-3 minutes before it’s ready to come out. it will be more of a gloriously abstract confetti -įinally, I put the canvas in the oven. note: You can put all your crayons into one baggie together - but you’ll have much less control over how your colors are organized when you pour them onto the canvas. Then I sprinkled the broken pieces strategically, color by color, as I wanted them arranged on my canvas. I started by taking the colors I’d chosen for my next canvas piece, removing the wrappers, putting them in separate ziploc baggies, and smashing them lightly with a hammer until they were broken into tiny enough pieces. So I experimented next with my next best method: baking my canvas in the oven. It turned out neat and the colors still blended together in a pretty way, but it was more streaky and linear rather than the nice marbled pieces shown below! I managed to get some pieces laid down, I think with hot glue, then attacked it with the dryer again but once the wax had liquified completely, even on low power my hair dryer blew the wax around more than I wanted it to. You either need to be holding your crayon in hand, like the video shown below on the right - or you need to get your crayon pieces slightly softened before you begin (otherwise your dryer will just blow the pieces right off the canvas). I found that the hair dryer made it much harder to control the wax, or I wasn’t as skilled at not burning my hand while holding the crayon. I like this look a lot, but I don’t own a handheld heater - which is better for this because it projects a more radiant heat. ![]() The photos and video below show a few other ways you can use a hair dryer or a handheld heater to get a more abstract, marbled-looking effect. ![]()
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