DIY Tutorial: Melted Crayon Art

       

One of the coolest things you will ever do.

Time 2-3 hours

Materials:

You'll need......

- 1 pack of of 64 Crayola crayons

- Hot glue gun

- 1 canvas ( I used a 9x12 canvas from A.C.Moore) 

- Hair Dryer

- Trash Bags

- 1 Black  Sharpie permanent marker (optional)

 Step 1: Before you glue, figure out what order you want your crayons to be in. Line them up on the canvas before hand. Be sure that there is no space between the crayons, and be sure that they are up against the top of the canvas.

Step 2: Begin gluing your crayons down. It is good to not only glue them to the canvas, but be sure to put a thin line of glue between the crayons as well to help hole them in place. 

Step 3 (This is the part where you get to pretend your James Bond and be all like "I zap you with my hairdryer!"): Lay your trash bags on a floor in an area in your house that is ok for you to possibly get dirty. Plug your hairdryer into a nearby outlet and lean your canvas up against a nearby wall facing vertically (you have to let the wax drip down.) 

Step 4: Turn the hairdryer on high and point it at the bottom of the crayons at a direct and/or downward angle. It will take a while for the crayons to melt, so you have to be patient. When the wax starts to drip use the hairdryer to maneuver the fall of the wax in whatever way you want it. As I said, this process takes a really long time, and there may be wax flying everywhere, so be patient and wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty. 

Step 5: After you have the wax at it's desired place, turn the hairdryer off. This is where the Sharpie comes in. Find a design you like online (or you can freehand it!) and trace it with the Sharpie. After you trace it, fill in the outline with the same Sharpie. 

Step 6: Take a picture and Post/Tweet/Instagram/Snapchat it to show all of your friends what a little artistic genius you are. 

Tips: If you want to make a design that involves having the design under/ based around how the wax melts, such as...

Be sure to draw the design BEFORE you melt the crayons.

To keep yourself from getting bored  during the hour-plus melting process, watch a movie, turn on some music, that kind of thing. It can get pretty boring, and your arm can end up pretty tired. 

Bombdiggity Artist of the Week: The Preatures

If you took David Bowie, subtracted the glitter, added the subdued sass/ beauty of Stevie Nicks, and threw in more pairs of 70s sunglasses than you could count, you would have the Preatures. Led by singer Isabella Manfredi, the Preatures originated in Sydney, Australia and originally signed with a label there. They are amazing. Please, for the sake of your ears, look them up.

Check out there website here.

Check out their most popular song "It This How You Feel?" 

And... Here they are on Spotify! 

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A Picture's worth a thousand words...

Here are some of the images I have been using lately as both personal and creative inspiration (or just because they're really cool!)

This really awesome wedding dress (made from a vintage table cloth!) courtesy of Buzzfeed

How I miss this! Courtesy of Buzzfeed

Roy Lichtenstien courtesy of Wikipedia

This is a photograph by a 21-year-old photographer named Nirrimi Hakason. Her work, (and story,) are astounding, and this is one of my favorite photos by her. Courtesy of the Road is Home.

Sarah Hyland from Modern Family courtesy of Modern Family

The entirety of Reality Shows captured in one image. If only we all looked this "majestic" when we cried. Courtesy of Buzzfeed.

Amy Winehouse courtesy of Tumblr

Website of the week

Website of the week: http://www.instructables.com

This website teaches you how to make literally EVERYTHING. What to learn how to make pressure cooked corned beef and vegetables? Done. Want to learn how to make Flappy Bird in a box? Yes. However, through research I discovered that it doesn't teach you how to make duct tape utensils. So much for making all my food taste like plastic!

And you to may contribute a verse...

It took memorizing a Shakespeare monologue at summer camp, reading the fault in our stars, and listening to enough Joni Mitchell on vinyl to permanently destroy my hearing, but a few months ago I finally developed an appreciation for poetry. There's some sort of emotion that comes out in poetry that can come out in nothing else. I would have thought doodling song lyrics all those years I could have loved it sooner, but there were certain things that really led me to it. I have especially began to find a love of poetry written by musicians. Here are some of my favorite poetry recommendations:

Grapefruit, Yoko Ono ($14, Amazon)

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Grapefruit is classic Yoko. It reads more like an instruction manual than a book of poetry, but in a way the things recommended within the pages make one think more than traditional poetry. With an introduction written by John Lennon, this is truly a fascinating, thoughtful book.Gathered Light: The Poetry of Joni Mitchell's Songs ($25, Amazon)http://www.threeoclockpress.com/sites/default/files/images/covers/9781927513125.jpgAlthough The Gathered Light isn't technically a book of poetry, it is an anaylisis of the philisophical and lyrical sides of Joni's music. I have always had an appreciation for Joni's skill with words, and this book only shows how much can be taken from her lyrics. 

 

Bombdiggity new artist of the week: The Moldy Peaches

Although they aren't exactly new the Moldy Peaches exemplify indie music in it's natural state. Originally formed by Adam Green and Kimya Dawson, the Moldy Peaches started in New York and went on to release exactly 1 album. Most people know the Moldy Peaches for their song "Anyone Else But You," which became the theme song for the movie "Juno." Check them out here.

This is the original "Anyone Else but You" by the Moldy Peaches (performed by Green and Dawson)

This awesome couple did a parody of "Anyone Else But You" at their theoretically awesome wedding

This is Ellen Page (she played Juno and had to sing the song in the movie) doing an awesome cover of "Anyone Else But You" for the awesome Barbara Walters.

image: http://www.moldypeaches.com/bandphoto.jpg

Bangor Area Childrens Choir on tour!

So this last weekend the Bangor Area Childrens Choir (BACC) went on tour! It went really well and everyone had a great time....... after we were rescued. About an hour into our trip, our bus proceeded to break down, leaving us to set up camp in McDonalds for about 2 hours. A very nice chaperone bought us fries so we wouldn't die of starvation, and we took many goodbye/will/who-gets-what-of-our-possesions videos.

Us at McDonalds

The nice chaperone who bought us fries also bought us jumbo sodas!

which we all enjoyed (mostly because it was free and it was keeping us alive) (I'm going to nominate that man for some kind of humanitarian award!)

And suddenly.... a school bus appears!

And we all rejoiced when a school bus arrived to save us!

Well, Skrillex, that was unexpected...

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2 days ago Skrillex released an album very suddenly, putting it for pre-sale unexpectedly on iTunes. This rocked the music world, as nobody knew the tracks were coming. Since I love stating my opinion on music, I figured I would check out the new album and figure out my viewpoint. Here's a description of each of the tracks from the perception of someone who doesn't really have a thing for dubstep.

Tracks 1-11: 

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In conclusion, I think what Skrillex was subtly trying to tell us is that they are always watching and waiting and that we should be ready. They're coming.

After After School, March 12th

Website of the week: http://.isitchristmas. com.

The title of the website is pretty self explanatory. In case you are confused about the month, or in most cases, the season, this website is for you. Great if you keep your decorations up all year!

After School Post, March 12

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"

- J.B. Preistly

Kristen Stewarts Face

Well, technically I guess vampires don't sleep....

Image source: http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/v2_article_large/public/2013/07/13/kristen-stewart.jpg

Bombdiggity New Artist: SoKo

I know that no one reading this blog will EVER care about this, but being me I had to share a new music artist discovery! For anyone who has watched the YouTube video "FIRST KISS" you probably heard the awesome and painstaking music in the background. I looked it up, and it turns out that that is Soko, a French singer/actress. Her music is really, really haunting and soulful. Check her out here.

The Treachery of Rene Magritte

If you've read the fault in the stars, then chances are you're at least somewhat associated with the art of Rene Magritte, the man who created the image on Hazel's "c'est ne pas un pipe" shirt. His artwork is awesome and weird and crazy philosophical. Here are some of his paintings.

The Treachery of Images (which reads in French "this is not a pipe," meaning that it is instead of it being a pipe, it is a painting of a pipe) 

 

The Son of Man

Golconda (You may recognize this is Mrs. Barnes art room)

And as I said before, if you haven't read the Fault in our Stars it is a seriously amazing book.

Source: http://www.renemagritte.org

Introduction

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