Jim Dine seems to truly love hearts and his robe.
I did a watercolor version of his heart painting but I discovered filling a pallete with cheap tube paints and allowing them to dry for a few months makes for a nasty, grainy, mess.
Free wasn't cheap enough since I'm still soaking the inexpensive paints out of my travel palette while the expensive watercolors floated away like champion swimmers.
I cleaned up the paint and decided to experiment with crayon batik. I heavily colored a sheet of Bristol board with Crayola crayons.
I accidentally broke a tip and decided to cut it into small bits and let it melt on later.
I put foil on a cookie sheet and popped the paper in a 350 degree oven until the broken bits melted.
Run tepid water over the cooled paper until the paper is pliable. Gently crumple the paper into a ball. The crumpling makes the cracks so you decide if you want lots of cracks or just a few.
I was going to cover the damp paper with India ink but I couldn't find any. India ink is a staple, like water chestnuts, and I assumed there was some in the cupboards. I didn't have any black gouache or black tempera paint so I painted the crayon surface with diluted black acrylic paint.
Gentle blotting helped remove some of the excess paint but to brighten it up a bit I did end up lightly rinsing it under cool running water. This photo shows the paper blotted, not rinsed.
I hung it outside to dry
The finished heart. I think if I did this again I would have colored it even more and would not have added the extra broken bits. It might be fun to simply place lots of shaved bits on and try to get them all to melt together. Remember, wax burns well, so be cautious.
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