{"id":68,"date":"2006-12-08T05:07:07","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/?p=68"},"modified":"2012-06-19T12:11:04","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T05:11:04","slug":"crayon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/2006\/12\/crayon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Crayons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image69\" style=\"width: 221px; height: 194px;\" title=\"carvedcrayons_06-carvedc-161.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/carvedcrayons_06-carvedc-161.jpg\" alt=\"carvedcrayons_06-carvedc-161.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/>After marveling at the sculptured crayons of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petegoldlust.com\/carvedcrayons.html\">Pete Goldlust<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diemchau.com\/storytelling\/index.html\">Deim Chau<\/a>\u00a0on Tuesday courtesy of contributors to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polymerclaydaily.com\">Cynthia Tinapple&#8217;s Polymer Clay Daily<\/a>, I woke up the next day to more crayons on the front of the Living Section in our paper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The &#8220;Crayon Man&#8221; created by Jen LaMastra was a<img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image67\" style=\"width: 145px; height: 132px;\" title=\"crayonman.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/crayonman.jpg\" alt=\"crayonman.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/> superhero-style costume. LaMastra peeled papers from discarded crayons to create colorful collage pants and made a remarkable crayon Mohawk headdress to match. &#8221; The event? A &#8220;Junk to Funk&#8221; fashion show with costumes made from recycled materials. It looked like great fun!<\/p>\n<p>Crazy crayons seem to be the theme this week, so I searched for some crayon artists. I found lots of links to Jeffrey Robert and Don Marco but I liked\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amandamorley.com\/\">Amanda Morley&#8217;s<\/a> wonderful colors and her very hip drawings. I also liked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deborahlanino.com\/index.htm\">Deborah Lanino&#8217;s<\/a> beautiful illustrations in a more traditional style. I know there must be some other wonderful, colorful, crayon artists out there. Send them my way.<\/p>\n<p>If you have a few extra minutes this weekend and need a laugh, Kent Koren&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifilm.com\/video\/2775060\/collection\/17565\/channel\/shorts\">short mockumentary<\/a>\u00a0&#8220;True Colors&#8221; is a hoot. This seven minute home video starts with a commercial, sorry, but I was laughing out loud by the end.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you have your big box of 64 Crayola crayons ready for Monday&#8217;s tutorial. We will use them to color the handouts. Since color monitors and color printers are all different this will make it possible for everyone to be looking at the same colors &#8211; an inexpensive alternative to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pantone.com\/pages\/products\/product.aspx?pid=67&amp;ca=4\">Pantone fan deck<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After marveling at the sculptured crayons of Pete Goldlust and Deim Chau\u00a0on Tuesday courtesy of contributors to Cynthia Tinapple&#8217;s Polymer Clay Daily, I woke up the next day to more crayons on the front of the Living Section in our paper. &#8220;The &#8220;Crayon Man&#8221; created by Jen LaMastra was a superhero-style costume. LaMastra peeled papers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":6989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inspirations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maggiemaggio.com\/color\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}