36 x 36
Mosaic-Glue | Oil | Paper | Board
Sometimes most of the time, the name of the piece is found within the mosaic layers. This is especially true here. I love the colors and the overall rich corn yellow helped lean into the name, of course you will find the Crayola box in here and as with all of my pieces, my photo is in amongst the other, way more interesting photos.
After several decades producing commercial pigments, Binney & Smith produced their first crayon, the black Staonal Marking Crayon, in 1902. The following year, the company decided to enter the consumer market with its first drawing crayons. The name Crayola was suggested by Alice Binney, wife of company founder Edwin Binney, combining craie, French for “chalk,” a reference to the pastels that preceded and lent their name to the first drawing crayons, with the suffix -ola, meaning “oleaginous,” a reference to the wax from which the crayons were made. Initially this was just one of the brands produced by Binney & Smith; other crayons were produced under names such as Cerola, Cerata, Durel, Perma, and Boston, among others; but the Crayola brand proved the most successful, and was produced in two lines: Crayola Gold Medal School Crayons and “Rubens” Crayola Artists’ Crayons.
Early Crayola advertising mentions thirty different colors, although there is no official list; in fact thirty-eight different crayons are known from Crayola boxes of this period. The largest labeled assortment was box No. 51, titled Crayola Young Artists’ Drawing Crayons, which included twenty-eight different crayons. Other colors were found in different boxes, including the “Rubens” No. 500, a twenty-four crayon assortment. The names of several crayons varied from box to box; in general the larger assortments tended to use names associated with oil paints, and in fact early Crayola literature frequently describes drawing with crayons as a form of painting
