Broken Watercolor Crayon to Spray Bottle of Watercolor Experiment
Did you miss Using Broken Watercolor Crayons?
The spray bottle of water holds 2 ounces of water. I had filled it nearly full of water but not quite before I put the half a watercolor crayon inside. It sat there undisturbed until tonite. I shook it up - it was a lovely dark shade of blue before and after shaking it - I could not see through it to tell if all of the crayon had dissolved or not which seemed like a good thing - I held it up to the light and it was not see through at all.
I got out one of the watercolor canvas sheets and started spraying the colored water on it - it did splatter nicely … except I did not have enough paper toweling around the edges so my drawing table got a coat of blue spray watercolor too … 
It was a nice light blue with dark blue splatter spots the first coat - the more I sprayed, the darker it got. I basically sprayed a lot on the entire canvas sheet … it looks like I have about a half a bottle of liquid left so I must have sprayed one ounce on the 9″ x 12″ watercolor canvas sheet … it lake puddled in a couple places or so … I let it sit that way while I went and got a paper towel then I lifted the entire wet off and what was left was a very nice light blue that will work quite well as a background for a seascape … a little bit of color and spots sort of nicely placed … I basically sort of stained the canvas sheet in very nice light blue splotches when I was finished.
If I had done this with watercolor paper … I might have had a lake all over the floor and the drawing table … the puddled water just sat there on the canvas sheet … the buckling was just enough to make it hold the sopping wet color [I knew before leaving it that it was not going to run all over the place - I had paper towels right there but I have a different texture of them in the kitchen so I was prepared in advance to mop quickly if I needed to do so!]
This experiment reminded me of when I was a kid with a box full of broken crayons … my grandmother would help me to melt them with wax to make candles out of them - she handled the hot pan and did the pouring into the candle molds with wicks … coloring the candle wax was a lot of fun for me … and perhaps that is where and how I got my adventurous spirit for trying different things in the arts and crafts world.
For my grandmother, it was a matter of waste not - she had been through the Depression so she squeezed every last drop of usable anything from everything. I didn’t have the same viewpoint … it was more like chemistry experiments to me.
