Explosion

      For my second visual arts project, I chose to abstract art. In the beginning, I was very unsure of what I wanted to do. I knew that abstract art was vague and could be whatever I wanted it to be. It was going to have some deeper meaning to it, but I didn't know where to start. I had a blank canvas, literally, and needed to create something abstract on it. I stared at my canvas for awhile before remembering that I use to take crayons and hot glue them onto canvas and then melt the crayons. Since I have done that before, I decided to try something else. However, I still wanted to use melted crayons.
      I started by choosing what colors I wanted from then piles of crayon boxes I had. I chose pinks, purples, and blues because I thought that they would mix well together. I originally was going to do all of the colors of the rainbow, but I was concerned that once the colors started blending I would get a really ugly color. After choosing my colors, I peeled the paper off the crayons by soaking them in warm soapy water for a few minutes. I then broke the crayons in half and created a pile of broken crayons. I grabbed my blower dryer, a fork, and a magenta crayon piece. I used the fork to hold the crayon on the canvas while I used the blow dryer to melt the magenta crayon. After splattering enough magenta for my liking, I grabbed purple crayon and melted that. I continued this process with several other broken crayon pieces. I noticed that while I was melting a specific crayon, some of the melted crayon on the canvas was reheating and starting to spread into other colors. I used this to my advantage and used my blow dryer to direct the melting crayons to certain spots in order to mix various colors. I continued doing this until I was happy with how it turned out.

      Overal, I think that my abstract piece turned out wonderful! I am very happy with the way that it looks. One thing I might end up doing with it is melting the crayons more so that there is no more white canvas in the background. Once it is completely covered, i would want to paint some kind of quote onto it. However, after spending about forty-five minutes melting crayons, I was burnt-out. I am extremely happy with how it turned out!

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