Neanderthals living in Ukraine’s Crimea region deliberately shaped ochre into crayon-like tools for making marks and designs.

Learn to draw expressive people using crayons, shading, and creative crayon techniques. James A. Schwalbach teaches kids how to draw people using crayons. Learn to vary pressure for shading, blend ...

Credit: d'Errico et al., Sci. Adv. 11, eadx4722; CC BY 4.0 Neanderthals crafted red and yellow "crayons" tens of thousands of ...

The most exciting is a roughly 4.5-centimeter-long, 1.2-centimeter-thick (1.8 and 0.5-inch) fragment of yellow ocher that was “fully-shaped into a crayon-like tool with a pointed morphology”, with ...

Meet the Crayola’s cool cousins. The crayons are forged from soy, beeswax, and natural pigments and are available in a plethora of playable shapes–from birds and dinosaurs to popsicles and eggs. The ...

The first box of Crayolas rolled off the production line 101 years ago, and today the company's Easton, Pennsylvania, factory turns out 12 million crayons a day. “We maintain the process as though we ...

The iconic art supply company has created a palette of 24 global shades for its new “Colors of the World” box, which is designed to illustrate more than 40 skin tones. Because Crayola believes that ...