Crayon Art...this isn't for toddlers

I hopped on board the crayon art craze partly because I have a challenging room to decorate in our new home...check it out:

Yes, this is our dining room. Yes, we bought the house this way. Yes, it is bold, but I love it! It isn't for everyone, but for me, it's the perfect dining room. (although, Christmas decorating will be a challenge!)

With the exception of the orange wall, the other walls are bare...

Crayon Art

You will need:
-blank canvas
-paint (if you want to paint the canvas first)
-glue gun and sticks
-multiple boxes of crayons (depending on the size of the canvas..you will need at least 2)
-hairdryer
-newspaper (for the splatter zone)
-tape for your newspaper

How To:
-Paint your canvas (if you want a background other than white)...I painted mine black because I wanted to tie in the black frames I used on the orange wall...
-Categorize your crayons the way you will want them on your canvas (match up the colors)

-Glue each crayon onto your canvas (I made sure the word CRAYON was facing the same way for each)

sorry the image is a little bit fuzzy, I wanted to zoom in and see they were all facing the same way

**make sure clean the glue webs off of the canvas**
-Prepare your "splatter zone" (the crayons WILL splatter)

I overdid the splatter zone, but it's better to be safe than sorry

HAIRDRYER steps...if I were to do this again, I would have better technique

-I wasn't quite sure the best angle to hold my hairdryer and it didn't take long to realize that the HIGH setting and the angle I was at was very wrong....the green went everywhere and it went everywhere FAST

see the diagonal colors? the setting was WAY too high

-So, MEDIUM is the way to go (hottest setting though!) and I angled the hairdryer down. I was getting frustrated when the other colors were dripping before the colors I was heating were...but I am a control freak in that regard....

Angle your hairdryer down on MEDIUM

-Eventually, I was pretty happy with how the top was going...then, I looked further down the canvas and I saw a glob of wax...I positioned the hairdryer angled down and on HIGH heat...heated it really quick to break up the glob...

Finished product

-Overall, it is personal preference of how long you want your drips to go...some of my drips went diagonally, which I'm okay with now...but I would try really hard for that not to happen next time...

-Now, I just have to figure out which green wall I want it on...