2 posts tagged “vl2f play”

So, I think I may have a slight case of dyslexia because I did it again. I read the subject line at R.G. Ryan's vox as Cooked Crayons instead of Crooked Canyons.

So, here is my (fictional) Cooked Crayons story....

He loves to draw, my son does. He doesn't care for paint, much preferring chalk, pencil, pen or crayon. He collects old coffee cans and fills them with crayon nubs, and chalk dust. There is a purpose to his collection. He uses the chalk dust on his fingers to sketch out ideas. If he likes where the idea is going, he will then use his pencil to detail the sketch. He says doing it this way, he doesn't waste what he has.

I have shown him how he can use chalk dust as a resist, when he is using crayons. He loves that, he creates many interesting designs and manages to create interesting perspectives using this idea. Yesterday I saw him using the resist technique with other types of tools and mediums. It is fun to see him reinvent the wheel, his experiments keep him creative.

The cans of crayon nubs are sorted into types. Some are sorted by color and some are shaved to create color resists and the rest are mixed and placed on the table for me to melt down. I pour them in silicone muffin pans and place multi-colored nubs into each melt so that when they harden, there will be occasional color bursts. When the cooked crayons are hard, we cut them in half, so he can hold them properly and away he goes.

How do you write a primer and what on earth is it?