Bought a paint brush and some crayons today

[Manfred M]

To play with some new concepts. It's not where I want to go with it yet (but I don't actually know where that is). Here is my first attempt at something...

This is probably the first step of a work in progress.

[escape]

I love it, Manfred. It's the kind of photo that makes you smile.

[Rita]

I love this, a fun shot. Look forward to seeing where you go with this one.

[ST1]

I too wonder where you could go with this one Manfred. But my first thought was how was this created. I'm familiar with the brand of crayons but not a brush handle from that brand.


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[Chataignier]

Original, intriguing. I like the slight non-alignment of the crayons - makes it believable.

[Manfred M]

But my first thought was how was this created. I'm familiar with the brand of crayons but not a brush handle from that brand.

This is the cheap Chinese knockoff...




The magic of Photoshop, Peter. In the original I lifted the lettering off the black crayon and placed it there and got the wood-burned look using the Soft Light blending mode.

After seeing your question, I did a bit of checking on the internet and found that Crayola uses a font called Omnes Bold for a lot of their branding and it is one of the fonts I have access to with my Adobe Creative Cloud subscription, which is how the "cheap Chinese knockoff" was created...

[Manfred M]

Original, intriguing. I like the slight non-alignment of the crayons - makes it believable.

I can thank the crayon manufacturer for that. Crayons are not a precision product and some of the misalignment on the way the wrappers are applied come from that. I also rotated the purple crayon a bit when I photographed the set to add a bit more misalignment. A bit of imperfection, as you point out, makes the whole thing more believable.