If you are around the south Bay Area of California, some of my work is being displayed at the Saratoga Public Library. They'll be up until the end of July so go check it out (and check out a book)!
@saratoga_library
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Me after my annual flossing.
I put white wax in the mouth to make a barrier to keep the brown below from mixing with the yellow wax for the teeth. The mouth looks a little crooked in the last pic but that's just the shadow from the angle of the light.
@themonkey_movie
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I like the different surface textures I was able to create for this orange slice.
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I found out it was Alfred Hitchcock Day yesterday. So I won't pass up an opportunity to reshare old artwork that some of you may have missed. I think this might have been one of the first times I made a portrait of a real person.
@alfredhitchcockofficial
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Dark crayons can be hard to photograph since they're... dark and it can be hard to see everything. Also since they are dark, the shiny spots from the light are more obvious and can appear in unphotogenic areas. So crayons like black and purple can be both too dark and too shiny.
@pokemon
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Another purple subject. Let me know if there's a Pokemon you'd like to see (purple or not).
@pokemon@nintendoamerica
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Here's how I made the interlocking hearts. I've never made something like this before but I had a general idea of how to do it. I thought about making a practice one first but then decided to just go for it on camera. Disconnecting the top heart without breaking it was a bit stressful but I just had to take it slowly.
@crayola
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I mentioned earlier that I don't use purple crayons very often. So I got curious and went through my entire feed and tallied up how often I used each color. Unsurprisingly, purple and pink were on the low end. I was surprised how similar the numbers were for most of the other colors though.
White is by far the winner. The main reason, besides just making a lot of things that are white, is that the white crayon is a good blank canvas. If what I'm creating has multiple colors, sometimes I'll just use white and add the different colors onto it. Or if the subject has a non standard color, I'll melt and mix the right shade and add that onto a white crayon.
