Handmade All Natural Art Crayons Set #2 - 2 Sizes Available
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This expansion set of handmade art crayons is created with all natural earth pigments as well as organic food / cosmetic grade soy and carnauba wax. There are ten colors and they're available in two sizes and each set comes in a tin.
After making my original set of art crayons, I loved them so much that I immediately started tracking down new colors of earth pigments to make a second set.
I love using these for their soft, natural colors, creating frottage and texturing effects, and combining them with stencils and woodblocks for fun patterns. You can use them in a similar fashion to oil pastels - you can see in the swatch card below that they blend and smudge beautifully.
I've used all-natural pigments as well as cosmetic grade soy and food grade carnauba waxes (both are organic) in the creation of these crayons, so they're generally safe for your skin. (Those who are ultra sensitive may still want to use gloves.) I love the subtle, earthy colors in this palette - note that the Citron and Rose Wood colors are quite light, but they have a gorgeous subtle hue when used on a light background.
Each set comes with 10 crayons (the large crayons have a wrapper denoting the color.) The colors are:
I make these in small batches and although I measure and use a recipe, there may be small variations in color from batch to batch. The crayons are a bit over 1" wide and will all be at least 5/8" thick (because these crayons are hand-poured, there are variations in how thick they end up.)
Here you can see the swatch card I made - I've scribbled the color and then blended out the bottom / right half of the swatch with my finger so that you can see how smooth and beautiful these are as well as the lovely, earthy hues.
*Tip: sometimes the pigments settle a bit in the wax - I do my best to prevent it, but sometimes the bottom of the crayon is lightly pigmented - I color using the tops for best results.
I love using these for their soft, natural colors, creating frottage and texturing effects, and combining them with stencils and woodblocks for fun patterns. You can use them in a similar fashion to oil pastels - you can see in the swatch card below that they blend and smudge beautifully.
I've used all-natural pigments as well as cosmetic grade soy and food grade carnauba waxes (both are organic) in the creation of these crayons, so they're generally safe for your skin. (Those who are ultra sensitive may still want to use gloves.) I love the subtle, earthy colors in this palette - note that the Citron and Rose Wood colors are quite light, but they have a gorgeous subtle hue when used on a light background.
Each set comes with 10 crayons (the large crayons have a wrapper denoting the color.) The colors are:
- Rose Wood
- Blackcurrant Red
- Primary Red Cinnabar
- Armenian Gold Ocher
- CitronPistachio
- Milori Blue
- Blue Ridge Violet Hematite
- French Brown Ocher
- Black Ocher
I make these in small batches and although I measure and use a recipe, there may be small variations in color from batch to batch. The crayons are a bit over 1" wide and will all be at least 5/8" thick (because these crayons are hand-poured, there are variations in how thick they end up.)
Here you can see the swatch card I made - I've scribbled the color and then blended out the bottom / right half of the swatch with my finger so that you can see how smooth and beautiful these are as well as the lovely, earthy hues.
*Tip: sometimes the pigments settle a bit in the wax - I do my best to prevent it, but sometimes the bottom of the crayon is lightly pigmented - I color using the tops for best results.
One of my most frequently asked questions is whether these crayons work on fabric. And the answer is, yes! They're fabulous on fabric. I pulled out a piece of hand-dyed vintage cotton and just doodled with a few crayons from Set 1 and Set 2... you can see how nicely the color goes on, how vibrant it can be (obviously depending on both the colors you use and the color of the fabric,) and depending on the surface of the fabric, they're even still a bit blendable. And although soy wax is water soluble, the pigments themselves are permanent and the carnauba wax helps to make the crayon marks able to withstand washing (up to a point... these will eventually wear off on anything that's washed frequently.)
