8. Artistic Failure

Lately, for reasons I can't explain, I've had this urge to be more artistic. Maybe I want to channel my emotions into beauty, or maybe I just want to fill my room with cool projects. It's probably the second one. There's only one problem: I'm horrible at artistic things. All my life, I've wanted to be able to make something pretty with my hands, but I've never been able to. It's not that I'm not creative; I have plenty of ideas for things to make. I just don't know how to translate those ideas from my brain into whatever medium I'm working with.
Rather than not even try, like I usually do, I've been attempting to act like an artist lately. My friend's mom is an art teacher, so I asked her if she could help me learn how to watercolor paint. So, I went to her house one day, we set up a little still life for me to paint, and I tried my best. And, in my opinion, I failed.

See, there's a picture of it. It wouldn't all fit in my scanner, so some of it's cut off, and it's all shadow-y. I suppose it's not horrible, really, but there have been far better first tries.

Today, I tried to create something again.
There are two big "fads" circulating the internet. The first is melted crayon art. Basically, you glue a bunch of crayons (usually Crayola, usually in rainbow order) to a canvas, hit them with a hairdryer, and they melt into this beautiful mess of color.

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People have taken this all over the place, like keeping a hand on the canvas while you blow dry;

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or somehow keeping the wax from melting onto a particular spot (I still can't figure out how people do this);

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or adding other things to the wax to turn it into a whole new picture.

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So that's super-creative and cool of people. 

The other thing that's gotten popular is the concept of a "2013 Jar." It's this neat idea where you write something good that happens every day, put it in a jar, and then read them at the end of the year. I think it sounds like a great, somewhat cheesy idea. I'll probably quit around March. 

But, being the over-complicated person I am, I decided to combine these two amazing ideas. And the outcome was decidedly less than amazing.

It looks like a Michael's store puked on a jar. But, it's too late now, and I'll have this jar for the rest of 2013 as a reminder that not all good ideas are meant to be. 

After creating my masterpiece/nightmare, I found a how-to on melted crayon art. I should've looked it up before I undertook this adventure. 

How to Make Rainbow Melted Crayon Art