I picked up the Andy Warhol Tomato Soup crayons when I saw them for sale on the Museum of Modern Art's website. I did not know much about Andy Warhol before this. I am inspired by what I have learned about him, especially his fascination with Campbell's soup and Coca Cola. I am inspired because that is what I do with crayons. I do not draw them, but I love taking pictures and making art with them, making the ordinary things in our world come to life. That is why I started this website, to document all the crayons I have, they are art to me. He was gone before Crayola started their experimental crayons in the 1990's, but he probably would have loved all the experimentation Crayola did those years, as I do. I love his use of color also. I love color, that is why I love crayons. I love experimenting taking pictures with color. He loved experimenting with colors and would often take the same image and make it different colors. I wonder how his art would have changed with the advent of Photoshop. It would have been a lot easier to make different colors of his paintings.
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