CRAYONS

I’m in New Jersey this week visiting my fabulous friend Nicki and her family. Since both her boys are youngsters, crayons have reigned supreme in my creative life since arriving. I hadn’t dabbled with crayons since I was a kid, but I quickly appreciated the utter lack of seriousness of the medium. They cost next to nothing. Precision is tricky. Doodling is irresistible.

Also, we melted crayons with a hair dryer. And it was awesome.

Here’s some of what I doodled this week:

Here’s the GREAT MELTING CRAYON CREATION, beginning with gluing crayons to a big white board:

Melting the crayons with a blow dryer (this took forever, but we persevered for “ART”):

Here’s the final creation, viewed two different ways:

Added Bonus: Here’s Nicki’s son Eligh explaining how he felt about “murdering” so many crayons: