You can glue the magnet onto the back as it can be a bit hit and miss dropping it on while the wax is molten.
We also tried writing into the foil on the bottom of the dish to have a message showing though this didn't work too well!
Monday, 14 November 2011
The day we made fridge magnets
Jo had the brilliant idea of creating fridge magnets using the wax crayons and some small magnets. We used small foil pie dishes and cut up the wax crayons in fairly big chunks, about half a centimeter, and arranged these in the bottom of the dishes in various patterns. Then we applied the heat gun to melt the wax until it all went runny. We left them to set a while but before they completely hardened we dropped on the magnet to sink down into the wax a little. A few moments later the wax was hard and we tested it on the fridge!
You can glue the magnet onto the back as it can be a bit hit and miss dropping it on while the wax is molten.
We also tried writing into the foil on the bottom of the dish to have a message showing though this didn't work too well!
You can glue the magnet onto the back as it can be a bit hit and miss dropping it on while the wax is molten.
We also tried writing into the foil on the bottom of the dish to have a message showing though this didn't work too well!
Monday, 7 November 2011
The day we tried Thermowaxonography (made up name!)
The WellArt group has a history of heating things up so when we discovered lots of cheap wax crayons we decided to apply more heat. First of all we tried shaving the crayons onto small pieces of card, covering them with paper and ironing them. The results were quite pleasing but a lot of wax stayed on the paper (though some of these looked good too!). Here are the cards:
Then we used a heat gun- sort of a hair drier but hotter! Again we arranged shavings and bits of wax crayon onto card then heated them so the wax melted. One word of caution- don't get too close with the heat gun at first as it will blow all the wax bits away and it is a real pain to hoover. Here are a selection:
As we went on we became better at arranging and mixing. As we had more ideas we thought we would try again in another session.
The bits of paper we ironed looked good too. If you do this don't forget to put a piece of paper over the crayon when you iron or you end up with a very messy iron!
Then we used a heat gun- sort of a hair drier but hotter! Again we arranged shavings and bits of wax crayon onto card then heated them so the wax melted. One word of caution- don't get too close with the heat gun at first as it will blow all the wax bits away and it is a real pain to hoover. Here are a selection:
As we went on we became better at arranging and mixing. As we had more ideas we thought we would try again in another session.
The day WellArt put up a front.
After having the gallery recently in an empty shop the management of the Elephant Yard in Kendal kindly let us use another empty shop and fill it's window with our work. This gives WellArt and Workbase publicity and it looks far better for the shopping centre than having an empty shop. A win win situation!
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