I had forgotten about this over the years until my last Second on the 2nd post where I had mentioned it. I have the crayons, can be regular crayons-can pick up odds at garage sales allot of times, or they do have fabric crayons for this purpose-don't know what the difference is.
This one I found on Craftsy for use on appliques on quilts. Appliques are pieces of fabric that you then sew on to the quilt piece-many buy fuseable which you put under the piece and then iron it down to stay in place.
In this link she is melting crayons and using like water color paints. here is a photo
Here is a video I just found of the process-explains things much better
This one is more simple-just color the fabric with your crayons then heat set with an iron. Good tutorial here.
I am impressed with this artist. She is melting crayons, painting on fabric-scrunching it up-using a cold set paint spray-iron everything off for a batik effect. Looks like a messy fun project. The link is here
Here is a photo of her results: she then sews them into pillows, quilts etc
What I was really looking for was using crayons to "dye" with or how to melt them in the sun, on fabric. I found this one that was done on canvas-I think this project could have been better controlled with nicer results-but you basicly put the crayons on the canvas in the sun on a very hot day and let them melt, swish around the "paint". I think shaving the crayons on might give nicer results link here
Similar here but less messy
I have seen this technique around the web Just attach the crayons to the top of canvas-set in sun let it all melt-not sure I like this either
A sun catcher made with melted crayon shavings here
Many of these projects were designed for kids-but us crafty and arty adults like trying new things too. smiles
Tips from crayola with melted crayons-like their idea of melting the wax and using the batik tool to "draw" with the melted crayons
I still have not seen anything on the web of what I was thinking of some 10 years ago for using the sun and crayons to dye fabrics.
My favorite is the batik piece and the video painting with melted crayon on to fabrics and heat setting it I really think melted crayons on fabrics need to be ironed off as described in the batik article.
My neighbor friend is out of town for awhile so after gets back next month, I may just call her and ask if she ever tried working with crayons in the sun on fabric.
I am almost thinking of shaving the crayons fine-and then lay them out onto fabric-into the sun on a non windy day and see what happens-then once set use the batik method afterwards-ironing off the excess wax.
Any ideas, thoughts? Have you done any art melting crayons onto fabric, canvas, paper? Would you try this?
Update: if you read Barbara's comment about when her daughter was young she melted crayons onto hot rocks-she sent me a photo-and wow this looked too fun--so I checked online and there are lots of video for this Here is just one of them I love this one. I also ran into a video using a warming plate-set up with paper and the crayons melt to the paper-how cool-wonder if it would work with fabric? less messy perhaps-or not here is that link
Feel free to share any ideas you may have using melted crayons
