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I think we all had a favorite version of a normal color to use instead. I always found myself using sepia instead of brown. It wasn't even intentional, it was just the brown for me.
i coulda SWORN i’ve seen prussian blue crayon before tho also dandelion was a color i used a ton growing up, literally was more common than yellow HOW was that retired
Same here, he even has the right voice to the Christmas story kid. and the wildly exaggerated imagery and hyperbole to the most mundane of things. lol Also as an elementary school student in the late 90s teachers would be the ones buying the 64 count crayon boxes (or larger) and the whole classroom would have to share it around.
I got quite emotional when I saw the names/drawing of the kids that once were. Such small details in a lifetime but they give a glimpse of how cherished they once were. It makes you wonder who these kids grew up to be and where life took them.
POW! Right in the children hood. I remember my 1st box of crayons. When I was younger. I was upset because they were "hande me downs". Broken or half used. But as time went on, I found I had colours that no one in my classroom had. When I asked how old they were my father said they were his in school and that he got them from his father. So alot of the colours went back to the 30s and 40s. Furiatingly my 3rd grade french teacher took them and through them out because I was coloring something and not paying attention to her. Too this day. If she was on fire. I wouldn't piss on her to put her out.
Ironically, everyone in my first grade class who didn't know what Peach was actually called referred to it as "skin-color" before our art teacher corrected us.
Same! My peach color pencil was asked for the most and every one called it skin color. Edit: Just to add. I'm brown and I internally died when people asked since it was the color of their skin but not mine.
Born in the first half of the 1960ties, we also reffered the peach to skin color. Then I started in school, and there was a girl adopted from Africa, and I understood that skin color can be other than peach.
This was so wholesome and brought me down memory lane with such interesting history. My favourite was periwinkle - it reminded me of a dress my mother wore with her special earrings. Thanks for the fabulous memories.
It's quite interesting, that back than a lot of crayons had names of actual existing colours and pigments, that look similar to that crayons. Now they are more focused on "fun" names, that are meant to catch attention, rather than help to define different colours.
The way you told the story from your childhood felt so much like A Christmas Story. I loved it. My mom couldn't get us the bigger boxes when I was a kid and I remember being so envious. I didn't know thistle, mulberry and dandelion were retired! I'm so sad.
I'm only saying this story not cuz it's gross but true & hilarious as a kid. I remember as a child that on the box it said, "non toxic". I found out when I was around 6 because my neighbor and I were trying to color our teeth with Crayons. He used pink, I used gold. We literally got into a fist fight over whose teeth were more pretty. Another time I forgot my large box of Crayons with the sharpener outside outside overnight. The next morning to my surprise, my pet Doberman ate the whole box. ....And you guessed it....I found the doody. Not to be gross, it was awesome! It looked like I emptied the crayon shavings from the sharpener melted them together. Just 1 big psychedelic Doo Doo! You could see the color gold(there's that color again) twinkling in the morning sun? I begged my mother to let me keep it! Of course to no avail. True Story!
I love that the drawing style of children hasn't changed--the stick figures we start out with are almost universal in a sense, and something about that is comforting.
I actually have a Copic marker called Flesh. I bought it about 8 years ago when I was 12 with Christmas money. I recently went to buy my first refill for it and found out Copic renamed Flesh to Rose Salmon! Thought it was interesting (but not surprising).
It IS surprising, because Copics are considered a professional art supply AND they are made in Japan (and the Japanese mostly ignore this kind of thing). Many professional art supplies call that color "flesh" or "skin tone," because it's a color used almost exclusively in portraiture, and the professional usage doesn't change because of PC politics that children's art supplies are subject to. Nobody thinks that browns aren't "skin tones," it's just that they generally have a much wider application as basic colors. You can make the argument that using "flesh" for a children's art supply could confuse children or introduce prejudice; but making the same argument for a supply that is used predominantly by professional illustrators is bizarre.
I have the entire Copic collection, and there are quite a few renamed colors. Like Africano, Orientale, Skin White and Baby Flesh Pink. Now they have names like Soft Pearl and Milk Chocolate.
@@bluesonicstreak7317 Fun fact, Copics aren't considered 100% artist's grade in Japan. In Japan they occupy this mid-grade between student and pro-quality supplies. The name itself comes from "copy", as in, you quickly render the image with the markers, copy it and toss the original. Though they've proven extremely popular with manga artists, they were originally designed for use in the product design industry. They're dye-based (as opposed to archival quality pigment-based supplies) and aren't at all lightfast. I've had pieces I colored with Copics shift colors after a few hours in indirect sunlight, while lightfast materials are meant to be stable for decades, if not centuries. The Ciao line is even marketed towards hobbyists and children (the caps have airholes in them in case they end up swallowed). Copics have a reputation for being 'high class Japanese art supplies' mostly because they were difficult to get up until recently. And even still, they're significantly more expensive abroad than they are in Japan (A Sketch marker retails for about 3 bucks in Japan, but costs between 5 and 10 depending on where you get it in the US. They're even more expensive in elsewhere.) As someone who owns literally every Copic (because I love markers), I find it kind of silly that there's this weird mystique around such a humble, albiet pricy, supply. You never see the same buzz around fine quality Italian oil paints. As for the whole 'PC' thing. Japan's a rather insular country with a homogenous population, sure, but they're not exactly PC-free. You just don't hear about most of it in the West because other countries don't rabidly export their politics like the US does. I mean, heaven forbid anyone disapprove of a single tone being considered the 'default' skin color. Also, I'm only a hobbyist painter (markers and ink are my wheelhouse), but there are very few, if any professional-grade supplies with 'flesh' in their name. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Holbien's 'Flesh'. Unless you're doing a really symbolic rendering of the skin, most tones aren't made up of a single color. IMHO, that color itself isn't even all that useful since it's weighed down with a ton of titanium dioxide, so it's difficult to mix without making mud.
not gonna lie, i kinda cried when you started showing off the old boxes with the names on them. I wasnt expecting to get emotional to a video about crayons, heh
I did as well. Just seeing remnants of childhoods long past got me wondering if the previous owners are still among the living. If they aren’t, they still left behind proof that they once lived and were full of childhood wonder and innocence. Made me yearn for my own childhood again. I’m a little misty-eyed myself typing this up.
Me too, at some garage sales I've sometimes seen the coloring book programs from shows like Muppet Babies on Ice and a few times I bought some and I don't mind that some of the pictures are colored already. That makes them more special.
oh same here! i went to school to be a preschool teacher. one time the crayola people came and gave a 3 day seminar/art class. we got almost every product they made at the time. water colors, big markers,small markers etc, etc. i still have a lot of it!
I got your "8 crayon box" story beat. My mother was a single mother who was a full time student, worked part time on campus, and was welfare and food stamp recipient. She planned menus and budgeted absolutely EVERY purchase she made so we would have enough to eat the whole month, even if those meals were a bit skimpy toward the end of the month. There was no "miscellaneous expenses" or "savings" in this budget. So it wasn't a surprise when she simply did not have the money to buy me crayons for the first day of the first grade. But, miracle of miracles, about a week before school started she found a crumpled, wet dollar bill in the gutter on the way home and picked it up. With that she bought a 24 crayon box (yes, this was THAT long ago) that I happily took to school with me the first day. Once there, I found myself sitting next to a little girl whose parents had not been so lucky. I shared my crayons with her until after winter break (her aunt had given her some crayons for Christmas). That single soggy bill made all the difference to not one, but two kids and their parents. My mother's determination and perseverance made all the difference to me, both then and now. You rock, Mom.
Oh, I was so certain it was going to turn out that you two ended up getting married years later! But I guess that would have been cliche. Your story was better. Real. And a wonderful illustration not only of the power of perseverance, but also of how the small kindnesses we extend to one another can have such a tremendous impact -- and how that impact can generate ripples that affect ever more and more people over time. Thanks for sharing. :)
My favourite crayons were probably Scarlet or Dandelion. (My main set was early 2000s era). Saw dandelion get retired not long ago and was sad to see it go; it was always one of the best yellows, imo, showed up well while still feeling like a calm edition of yellow. Scarlet was just very bright, and felt more "red" than most of the other reds we had. It's neat how attentive they were in several of the name situations, though; I'm glad they took misinterpretations and mistakes into account, even when their initial intents were purer.
As a professional artist who uses crayons in her work I’d have to say my favorite crayon color had to be apple green. I just LOVE The subtle vibrancy it has. It’s a color that’s soft but strong at the same time, but has a transparency do it that makes blending and boosting other colors a DREAM!! I love apple green!!
@@poopsicle107 I think so, they keep changing the name on me. And I still use some old crayons from when I was a kid so like 19 years old crayons. Im just so used to looking at the color and knowing what it is that I stoped making a complete effort to remembering the names. I will have to take a look next time I’m in the Studio.
Lemon yellow is a real paint pigment name and it's a pure yellow with no green black or orange tint. It's great for mixing or overlaying to tint other colors. I'm pissed they removed it.
It was a great color, as were those others they got rid of at the same time 😢. Violet blue was the color of blue jeans, and orange red was tomato color! They should have just added colors. I always like drawing with "realistic" colors than the bright ones. I never liked the neon colors as a kid.
Lemon yellow is actually like the spring green color I know it because i have a oil pastel that has a lemon yellow shade i knew immediately that green color is like pemon it can be found in 64 box +
OMG this is epic ... I remember having the 64 with the BUILT IN SHARPENER ... I think it was strictly for home use, however. I coveted it. Oh, and everyone knows the best crayola crayon color is periwinkle.
@Pam Landry, My favorite color is blue-violet and periwinkle is the tint of the discontinued/retired killed off violet-blue color in the beginning of the year 1990. The tint of blue-violet being closer to the violet/purple hue than the blue hue by adding white to it will be lilac. If you love periwinkle then you will also like lilac, blue-violet, denim, indigo, blue bell, cornflower, fuchsia, lavender, orchid, Purple Heart, wisteria and the newest Bluetiful (yinmn blue) crayon color launched and sold since the year 2017 to present.
And yet they kept Yellow Green... a crayon that was literally a sickish yellow with random green bits mixed in. When I was in psych ward for depression we werent allowed to use anything sharp, so no pencils or pens. We did have crayons though. We all had a pretty good laugh at Unmellow Yellow given our situation. We thought it needed some time to calm down but the nursing aids wouldnt let us put it in the solitary confinement room.
Personally I'm a lot calmer when I haven't been forcibly locked in a small room as a punishment for having too many emotions, but I guess they didn't try leaving me in there until my brain turned to mush
I have around ten of the Dandelion colored crayons, I had a HUGE box full of crayons that was passed down from my oldest brother, my second oldest brother and from me. It was basically full of multiple packs of crayons that my mom had bought for her kids over the years that got dumped into a huge box, so I can easily find some of the retired colors in there because my oldest brother is 24 now so imagine what colors of crayons he had when he was in kindergarten!!
The colors of the world is an artist's DREAM! I really hope they don't discontinue it. All of the artists that use things like Prismacolor and even Copic are excited about it.
Yes, I'll have a look at it too. I'm becoming an illustrator. I try not to draw human faces in color: it's so difficult or impossible to get faces, esp the range in 'white' or 'brown' faces accurately with pens or waxy colored pencils.
IRT the “flesh” crayon: I was born in Japan in 1999. When I was growing up, crayon sets included 肌色 [hada iro], translating to “color of skin”. But now, it’s called 薄橙 [usu daidai], translating to “pale orange”.
@Cirrx its Kanji characters, the Kanji script borrows Chinese characters used mostly in names, the scripts made by Japan are Hiragana and Katakana, the former used in the Japanese language most often encasing both a consonant and a vowel (ka, ki, ku -> か き くetc) and the latter (Katakana) being used in place of foreign names or words but having emphasis on their vowels (bacon -> bekon -> べコン)
@Cirrx I'm learning to speak Japanese (currently in my 2nd year of learning in school) and I'm also one of the ones here to point out that the Japanese language also uses Kanji, not China. The Japanese language is made up of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
Spring green is my all-time favorite crayon. I remember it from when I was a child in the 70s. I also vividly remember Prussian blue but according to this video it was discontinued 11 years before I was born! The only explanation I can think of is that I either was given some hand-me-down crayons from a much older cousin or my Mom probably picked up an old box at a rummage sale. This video was great and highly entertaining!
I adored the section of this video when you showed Anne’s and Judy’s proud signatures. I would wonder the same about where their lives took them. The circus picture is a piece of history when circuses were literally road shows. My mom was born in 1936 on a Pennsylvania farm and has talked several times about how they had to draw elephants in school one day and she hoped to see one in real life, so your close up of the elephant drawing really touched me. Thank you for such a wonderful video!!!
my great grandma grew up speaking polish, so as an adult she used “basic” color words. when my grandma was 6 they bought her a big set of crayons for christmas. they sat together on the floor reading all the label names
It’s a bit crazy as many of these banned color names are simply the traditional names for different pigments-like that flesh tint or the Prussian blue. I had both of those in my very first set of oil paints. Side note: I’m also slightly irritated that today’s children will never experience the frustration of accidentally grabbing orange-red instead of red-orange. Or yellow-green instead of green-yellow.
I want them to bring Prussian blue back. I think kids need to want to know where Prussia is and what the names of colors refer to. Sometimes it can be really interesting.
yeah, right!? LOL actually, i learned about colors from those crayons and i still refer to a red-orange or an orange-red there’s a difference. whatever they call them now, how’s a kid supposed to learn that difference with the stupid names they give them. and artist’s colors do not use those names. how would we know what color is in the tube? even with the color stripe on it? and isn’t there still a prussian blue? or is it called dark light blue with a dash of purple :)
Excellent video. Thanks for mentioning my website. And here's to an even deeper state of crayons no longer in Crayola's color rainbow: celestial blue, English vermillion, Madder lake, Permanent Geranium Lake, Gamboge Yellow, Venetian Red. All of them were there in 1903 except Gamboge Yellow and none of these were retired or banned. They just simply disappeared from their line ups. So much history for such a simple art medium.
Thank you for this. Favorite, 1960-1976: "Carnation". Loved the floral colors: Thistle, Periwinkle, Dandelion. I also loved the box of Crayola crayons that my paternal grandmother kept in her kitchen. It was lovely to see packaging like hers in this piece. 19:43, Sunday 14 November 2021
Oh my God! This is a walk down memory lane! Every year I begged my mom for the 64 box with the magical sharpener in the back. oh how I longed for Gold! Silver! Copper! and my favorite, Blue-Green! Only to receive the 8 color box instead, we couldn't afford it. But there is a happy ending, my dear friend Kathy sent me the 64 box as a present this year! It is magical to have it. Thank you Kathy!!!
TH-cam recommends me cute stuff today. This was a charming little video, the production and humor were great. I appreciated the bit at the end showing older boxes owned by people. It reminded me of the big 64 pack my parents bought me when I couldnt go to school due to being sick. Periwinkle was actually one of my favorites because it was a shade of purple I had never seen before. "What does that even look like" is a sentence that resonated with me and still feeds my sense of wonder and curiosity to this very day.
I never forgot the name "periwinkle ", learned before I went to school, from a box of 64 that lived in my grandparents stairway. I remember finding out later that it was named for a flower, imagine my excitement when I finally got to see a living periwinkle and it was the "proper " color! Oh, what things we save in our memory banks.
Periwinkle was my favorite, too! So many colors that I loved but periwinkle just had something magical about it. Maybe in the end it was mostly the sound of the name. lol
I have a 216 pack of alcohol brush markers, and soooo many of these retired names are used in that set. Some of my favorites! Raw Umber, Prussian Blue, lemon yellow, blue gray, green blue, thistle… such great names!
I bought myself a box of 64 crayons when I was 65 because I always regretted only having a box of 8. It made me feel great, funny I know, but I knew I had finally arrived. Thank you, Crayola!
I loved this trip down memory lane. In my 71 years, I have purchased many boxes of crayons. They have to be Crayola because the others are like trying to color with a tinted candle. My favorite was always periwinkle. Thanks for the memories.
My favourite was always periwinkle, tried to colour everything with it! I even grow periwinkles in my garden ;-) although the flowers actually range from purple to blue to pink in colour.
I remember when I was younger (I think like 2nd grade?) we had these "About me" posters, and one of the questions was what was your favourite colour? Well, I never had one, because all colours are nice. My mom told me to pick a crayon out of a I think 32 count Crayola crayon box, and I pulled out orange red. I remember grabbing that and using it every time because it looked "more red" to me. The fact that they retired it devastated me.
@@jaxsterminator8634 I used scarlet because I thought it said scribble when I was little and that would be exactly what I would do with that colored crayon
Fun fact: In the 1890's a company called Binney & Smith devised a method to manufacture a soot pigment from oil and gas. Later, they mixed the soot with a solid material - paraffin - hated by oil producers to create "dustless chalk". The dustless chalk was so popular, it won a gold medal at the 1904 World's fair. They later manufactured colors mixed with paraffins/waxes and gave the product the name "Crayola" - a combination of the French word "craie" for chalk and an English adjective meaning "oily". However, a rubber company - B. F. Goodrich - later found that adding carbon to rubber greatly improved its strength and abrasion resistance among other qualities, so Binney & Smith also produced their soot (that is, carbon from oil/gas) for tires, which allowed their business to thrive not only for crayons but also the automotive industry.
My gosh, I remember all these, especially the thrill of the sharpener. The names did teach us a lot - words you'd never normally hear. And yes, the Crayola smell. Also, the joy when 'white' came out. Thanks for this.
Anyone know any crayons colors that should be banned? For example the “Macaroni and cheese” one, it’s an orange that resembles the powdered cheese from a box of Kraft. I remember actually eating that specific color of crayon and it was not fun.
I wanted to "like", your comment and then I saw it had an appropriate number of likes so I went to write this reply and two people "liked", the comment and ruined the perfect number.
I remember when macaroni and cheese crayon came out. I was so thrilled about it but never really used it unless I was desperate for anything resembling orange.
My favorite crayon color was Cornflower Blue. I believe it was “retired” many years ago. But I always colored the prettiest places in a book with Cornflower.
Prussian blue is still a color for paints, tubes of acrylics, oils and even watercolors. The best thing about the Crayolas is that often they were named after their proper color (read professional art supply) names.
They still use the term “Prussian Blue” in adult art supplies. It has a specific pigment number. People don’t use it much because it fades to gray in sunlight within a year or so. However, when you put the artwork in a dark place, for some reason, it comes back. When I was younger, Magenta was my favorite color.
As far as I can recall Phthalo Blue green shade, a touch of Raw Umber, and a smidgen of Payne's Gray,.will give a blue that functions the same effect - or near enough. I haven't used it in many years simply because of the fading you describe.
As well as the tenuous connection to the Eastern Bloc, Prussian Blue gained so dark history during and after the Second World War. It was noted that the walls of the gas chambers used to murder the Jews and other victims of the Holocaust and the soil around the vents the gas was vented out of after they died were stained Prussian Blue. Some was present in the Zyklon B pellets used ( the cyanide gas was not piped in as a gas, or generated by dropping potassium cyanide into liquid acid as is the case in the US, the victims would be packed in tight and the Zyklon B (a commercial insecticide and rodent poison) dropped in and the combined body heat of the victims would cause the cyanide to sublimate and form a gas) as a by product of manufacture but not enough to cause the staining. It’s hypothesised that the cyanide would react with the paint and body fluids of the victims to form the pigment. In the early 2000s there was a far right ‘musical group’, formed if two 11 year old girls, called Prussian Blue for this reason.
My favorite was actually periwinkle and it still is. I bought myself the prized 64 box when I was about 50, the very smell of those crayons makes me giddy for school to start in the fall. I have not started school in the fall for nearly sixty years, but I always have a few crayons to bring out for my granddaughters. I got into a little trouble back in preschool when I tried to eat a purple crayon, I think I tried to pretend it was a grape lifesaver. Thank you for your charming
Dude I remember that if you got the 64 box and brought it to school(specifically in like K-to-4 levels), you were the cool kid As for 5 to 12 either you're seen as like an art savant or a lazy bones
I remember using Raw Umber, Violet Blue, Teal Blue, and Dandelion all the time as a kid. My favorite color is definitely macaroni and cheese simply because I remember first seeing the color as a kid and thinking it was a really cool name for a crayon.
Oh my gosh, what a GREAT video! Brought back so many memories to me (I too only had an 8-Crayon box, but I thought I was sooooo lucky to have it!)--do you remember using used Kraft grocery bags (no $ for buying white paper to just use for coloring. I often remember my favorite scents of First Day of School--the wood smell of a freshly sharpened Ticonderoga pencil and whatever ink was used on those mimeographed sheets that were handed out. So silly to think of the importance of those two scents, each first day when they were handed out it was like spring, anything was possible, I would make new friends, I would excel in ALL tests (that one never happened), I would be popular (alas, that didn't happen either). Thanks so much for the solid information as well as the humor and the memories!
I like white, and here’s why. Draw something on a piece of cotton. Colour it heavily with white crayola. Next colour over the white with any colours you love. Sandwich the cloth between two pieces of paper bag and iron it with a hot iron. The white helps set the other colours and you have wearable art. Wash in cold. If it fades, you can just repeat the process.
One summer I taught arts and crafts for the city. The craft of the week was too hard even for ME to learn, so Instead I had the kids bring in any light colored t-shirt. I pulled out all of our broken Crayolas and had them decorate their shirts. I told them to color heavily (to use up those stubby pieces!) and then ironed off the wax between sheets of newsprint. We all got to wear our creations to the end of summer picnic. As for using white crayons for art-I liked to tell the students to draw an underwater scene using only white, then to paint over it with blue watercolors. I loved hearing the oohs and aahs when their pictures would magically appear!
I still have the t-shirt from my daughter's 4th grade choir recital that was decorated by the children with an ironed crayon design. 🖍 What a sweet memory, thank you 💖
As a kid back in the 60's, getting a new box of 64 Crayola's on Christmas morning was such a HUGE deal. To this day I can still sit with crayons and a colouring book. Prussian Blue was my favourite. I remember all those 'retired' colours.
the clockface of big ben has been restored to its original colouring: prussian blue. for about 100 years it was black. no problem with the name here in uk
Crayons are just so satisfying. Especially Crayola ones. Just feeling their smooth edges and knowing you can make anything with them. And the colors are beautiful.
I'm 75 now, but I've always been fascinated with a full box of crayons with every color in it, it was a status symbol in itself! I used the "red" color frequently on my fingernails, because it made my hands look pretty with bright red nails. I didn't think ahead too much, because it was embarrassing when the teacher came along, and saw my nails red again! Especially since I'm a guy....
How come no one is talking about the production/editing/narration of this video? Its stellar. Legit this channel made banned crayon colors into a personal narrative. Bravo.
Super late to the party, but I appreciate all the production that went into this video. For some reason, Crayola products are very difficult to find in Japan. Sure, I could easily order them online, but it's not the same as shopping and picking them up in person. I recently rediscovered Crayola after I found some new, unused boxes at Book-Off. One is a 24 count box dating back to 2010, and a 64 count box dating back to 1999. Both boxes even include the discontinued Dandelion. Did you know that dandelion in Japanese is tampopo? It is also the name of a 1985 Japanese comedy film. I recommend it!
Isn’t that kind of ironic though? I’ve heard a lot of artists say Japan has tons of stores that sell art supplies you won’t find in American stores. Or so I’ve been told.
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle It's true that you can get a lot of art supplies here that you won't find in North American stores and vice versa. Japan already makes amazing stationery and art supplies; Craypas (Sakura Colors Corp.) being one of the the most common in elementary school classrooms. So, it doesn't make sense for a company like Crayola to try to enter/expand in an already saturated market. On the other hand, I've noticed that Sakura rebrands a lot of their export products, and a lot of their export products aren't available in the domestic market. For example, the Sakura Petit Color watercolour kit was rebranded as the Sakura Koi watercolour kit overseas, and the signature Pigma Micron pen is navy and gold in colour, but the overseas version is beige. They also have a line of export erasers called the Sumo. At the end of the day, the brands and the packaging of the products we use doesn't change their function. But I do find the range, selection, and availability of these products interesting. I think this sort of "region locked" products have always been around, it's just that the internet has made it easier for us to see what we're missing out on.
Cerise was and still is my favorite crayon. There was an ongoing crayon related argument in my aunt’s Sunday School class because she insisted we color the people on Bible coloring pages with the peach crayon. It was pointed out to her that there was only one person that color in a class full of Mexican American kids, and it was her. So we should be allowed to color people other shades of brown too. She refused to accept this, among other logical arguments like they would likely at least have a tan being in the Middle East. It made its way to the minister, my grandfather, who told her to stop arguing with the kids, especially since they were right. There were still skirmishes about the peach crayon for another 20 years (she’s stubborn), and coloring the people in “shocking” ways was my favorite pastime. She got particularly upset about brown Jesus with red hair.
As an Orthodox iconographer, I help preserve our church's 2000 year old history of making Christian art. I have had some disagreements with my own kids (who I taught ) over the traditional colors and styles to paint some of the clothes on the icons. Of course like the pastor's good advice in the story, it was best to let them win, and I still come across their work from time to time. BTW, referring to your story, It's interesting that some of the old sources have at least red or auburn highlights (or a description like that) for His hair. Some traditions have him descended from a line of red-heads (called by a term translated ruddy-colored) all the way from King David. You rarely see His mother Mary's hair, because it is contained in a snood, but when it is shown down it also matches His. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas season! Feliz Navidad!
Jesus's skin in the bible was described as a darker hue and his hair was woolly in texture. Wait until she meets a brown man with Afro-textured hair waiting for her at the gates lmao. She might ask if it's too late to go to hell.
Periwinkle is a type of flowering plant, and yes, the flowers are a light dusty blue color. I don't like how crayons of any brand have switched to soy wax, it doesn't color as well as whatever wax they used to use.
@@ColorJoyLynnH Yeah, the crayons mainly just put out uneven streaks of color rather than an even coverage. Crayola used work the best, but not any more, they're no better than the cheap crayons now but still command a higher price.
I remember "that kid" in my class that had the biggest crayon box and wouldn't let anyone touch it... i also remember the burst of colors, so many ! And the first time i saw a gold and a silver crayon, what a sight to behold in the late 70's, early 80's, when gold and silver were a staple in Barbie fashion - my ULTIMATE PASSION ! I still love crayons at the age of 42 and there's nothing like the smell of a brand new box of crayons, it just takes me back to the happiest times of my life 💕.
I remember “that kid” too. Though in my case, she had a great big box AND a smaller box of bright psychedelic crayons. She was a trendsetter…and she knew it. Only a very lucky few were allowed to try the coveted crayons. And I was not one of them.
It’s a really, REALLY long shot but if that box from Judy came from either California or Texas then the age closely matches my aunt Judy. She has since passed but that made me smile a lot and brought some good memories to mind. I miss her for sure.
Great video! I grew up poor in the 60's and yes, I too was hit with "Crayon Envy" when I saw that other kids had the bigger packs than me. The 64 pack was truly the Holy Grail of crayons and yes, like you; I was totally envious of my classmates who came from two parent households who could afford such "luxuries". Ahhhhh, childhood memories! They never really fade, do they??? Again, great video!
@Jim Atkins: I shared your experience as a child. You are right, those child hood memories never fade and like you, I relived them in this video. My 64 color box is a prized possession
I was, and still am, utterly enamored with MAGENTA! Not red, or purple, or blue, but a beatious amalgam of all 3. Thrilled when 8 I found out Blue's Clues dog had a girlfriend named Magenta.
Aw man, I loved mulberry. Another thing I love is your narration, the comment comparing it to A Christmas Story is spot on. Feels fun and nostalgic. The little drawings and names written in the boxes towards the end were so cool, I love thinking about who used to own old things.
A side note on Prussian Blue: This specific name was also used for the shade of blue that contained cyanide to produce the colour. It may have been altered because of those connotations too.
Meh, what’s little deadly poison? We grew up around lead paint, yard darts, and any other number of things meant to “thin the herd” so that only the strong of us survived.
Awesome topic! Ive always loved color- I'm a makeup artist today and i still collect crayons and coloring books. Thank you for this informative and sentimental journey ❤
Crayola is the reason I grew up thinking I my race was peach. Until I was 10, I'd never heard of the concept of white people, black people, etc. In 5th grade social studies, when the teacher introduced a discussion about Martin Luther King Jr by talking about skin color, no one in my class could "accurately" name our skin color, or at least what we were supposed to call it. We kept guessing peach or orange or brown or sepia. When the teacher told us we're considered white or black, we laughed uproariously. It was absurd -- looking down at our own arms and each others', wondering how anyone could see us as white or black when we were definitely peach or orange or brown or sepia! Ah, youth.
1:25 I had the same plane, I forgot the name, to control, you need to put your hand below, in a tight area where the ceiling is shorter, you can easily catch it!
Does anyone else remember the trauma that you either had to ruin your crayon by peeling the paper down, or else stop coloring, once you had worn it down? I remember the impasse.
Me too. What to do. I am 81. Burnt sienna was and still is my favorite color. And that wonderful smell when yu opened a brand new box of shiny new crayons.
This is a delightful presentation, chock-full of wit, fun facts, and good humor. Incidentally, I have always been fond of the "Cornflower Blue" crayon because the name conjures up such a lovely image!
My favorite crayon as a kid was Cerulean. I always thought it was the best sky blue. I used the word cerulean in a college English essay and my professor said he had to look it up. I felt quite... cultured for using a word an English professor didn't know, lol. I'm also an artist so I know a lot of color names.
I learned the word cerulean from The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein by Carol Ryrie Brink--who is better known for writing Caddie Woodlawn. Irma uses it to describe the eyes of the imaginary doll that causes all the trouble...her teacher has to explain the word to Irma's classmates.
@@gentleasa5728 He has a good eye for color. The whole purple family is one of my favorit groups. Purple, periwinkle, pinks, reds and blues. Right next to that group is red, white and blue; I'm very patriotic. Next are the yellows and oranges. Finally, greens if they are bright or neon. Drab colors like olive green are a big NO. Browns? Not in my closet.
Genuinely loved Periwinkle, funnily enough. It was a pretty shade of blue-purple to me, and the name just sounded neat, cute and calm, just a generally good vibe, hah. But Robin's Egg Blue was also one I really liked, yeh So was Dandelion, it was always perfect for having a different shade of yellow, like how you had pink and hot pink or magenta, you could also have Dandelion help fill that gap to give more variety to your doodles My big crayon pack is what helped start me off as an artist today, still forever thankful for it ^u^
Your tribute to the original owners is touching. The flesh colors of the world first came out in the late 70s-early 80s. It was originally an box of eight. As an adult I was gifted with the plastic display box of 72. It was a joke gift, but I still treasure it. And I envy you your box of 200.
The multicultural colors first came out in 1992 as an 8 pack. Then they came up with the 24 pack Colors of The World in 2020. I was a fan of Burnt Sienna.
When I saw this recommended to me, I thought it would just be like one of those TOP 10 FACTS videos with a simple narration. I'm so glad I clicked on this because it's so much more. I chuckled so much at the narration and story about your childhood, and I'm so impressed by the craftmanship you put into this video. Thank you!
I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked on this video, but I certainly wasn't expecting such an entertaining, creative video with stellar narration! Excellent production quality! 👏🏻 Didn't think a video about crayons would be so impressive lol
I've been drawing cartoons for most of my life.I had no idea when I casually clicked on that I'd be so entertained.This is a great video...I'm sure it's been mentioned in the comments below,but I felt I was watching..and listening..to yet another project from the narrator of A Christmas Story.You made Crayola Crayons so interesting..and funny...well done.
When I was a kid, my favorite color was the periwinkle. I am glad you put it back. Put it back in the 64 where it originally was. Thanks. Watermelon would be a good color.
Especially the part where he was reminiscing about his 8 count box of crayons, that reminded me so much of the Red Ryder bb gun scene. He even sounds like Ralphie lmao-
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Periwinkle is a flower. I had to color skin orange. It helped me hate orange.
:D
Can I get it please I am a kid who loves art
😢@@collettesmyth
@@shaynethayer9641 Wdym 😢
My favorite was “dandelion” because I didn’t like the regular yellow when I was smaller
I still have that crayon.
I kept my dandelions safely, and still have like three of them
I think we all had a favorite version of a normal color to use instead.
I always found myself using sepia instead of brown. It wasn't even intentional, it was just the brown for me.
Yeah
Same, when they said it would be gone it was like -"Dandelion was my gd hair color now i'm gonna look like I took a highlighter to my head"-
crayola: lets remove dandelion because we already have a yellow in the 24 pack
also crayola: *adds a sixth blue*
Dandelion is better than yellow
Sorry dude. Cornflower Blue is pog
Seriously wtf
Bro I remember that! They added a blue called “bluetiful” and I remember absolutely HATING that name.
@@Thatmoosecaishen ture
Imagine a conversation like:
“What’s your favorite color?”
*“FLESH”*
I was that child.
Lol
Haha
*F L E S H*
“Yeah so i like flesh but i accidentally ate it”
“What?”
“What?”
Thistle...thistle was my favorite. My Dad called the evening sky " sky blue pink"...I remember telling him it was thistle. Thanks for the memory.
I thought flesh was changed to stop kids from eating the crayons, because they craved flesh more than peaches
I kinda agree.
How have I seen you everywhere
True
Why did I think of human flesh?
Here b4 this blows up
i coulda SWORN i’ve seen prussian blue crayon before tho
also dandelion was a color i used a ton growing up, literally was more common than yellow HOW was that retired
Yeah I know!
It's not retired it's in the 120 pack today
I'm saying that's not retired is dandelion
you'll like the new Crayelllow. it's just in the Colors of Kindness right now but still
@@JimCutler sadly, the New York times article requires a subscription. This link is clickbait. Have a colorful day.
The grade school story with the 8 pack vs 64 is highly reminiscent of "A Christmas Story" and I loved it
Was literally thinking the same thing; literally the one person I could think of hearing this narrator was Jean Shepard.
I thought the same exact thing
ditto lol i could not get that thought out of my head 🤣
Same here, he even has the right voice to the Christmas story kid. and the wildly exaggerated imagery and hyperbole to the most mundane of things. lol Also as an elementary school student in the late 90s teachers would be the ones buying the 64 count crayon boxes (or larger) and the whole classroom would have to share it around.
I like how flesh didn’t get removed, they got promoted into there own seperate package, the only crayon which got promoted
I got quite emotional when I saw the names/drawing of the kids that once were. Such small details in a lifetime but they give a glimpse of how cherished they once were. It makes you wonder who these kids grew up to be and where life took them.
Agreed.
imagine finding the crayola pack of a certain failed artist from austria.
@@JimCutler or so the Germans would have us believe
People from before made the best things
POW! Right in the children hood.
I remember my 1st box of crayons. When I was younger. I was upset because they were "hande me downs". Broken or half used. But as time went on, I found I had colours that no one in my classroom had. When I asked how old they were my father said they were his in school and that he got them from his father. So alot of the colours went back to the 30s and 40s. Furiatingly my 3rd grade french teacher took them and through them out because I was coloring something and not paying attention to her. Too this day. If she was on fire. I wouldn't piss on her to put her out.
I just reread this comment as I always do- SHE DID WHAT
@@sierrahale804 I second this!!
That’s basically ILLEGAL, you should of told your parent or something.
that's literally not allowed WTF
SHE TOOK THE COLORS FOR HERSELF???????
Ironically, everyone in my first grade class who didn't know what Peach was actually called referred to it as "skin-color" before our art teacher corrected us.
Same! My peach color pencil was asked for the most and every one called it skin color.
Edit: Just to add. I'm brown and I internally died when people asked since it was the color of their skin but not mine.
I remember kind of the opposite. Lol. When I was a kid the color of my skin and other white people was called "peach". 😂
@@5-Volt Sameee
Born in the first half of the 1960ties, we also reffered the peach to skin color. Then I started in school, and there was a girl adopted from Africa, and I understood that skin color can be other than peach.
@@ireallylikeinigo2300 lmao ye,also in here,in spain,they called it skin color,when now it's called peach too
This was so wholesome and brought me down memory lane with such interesting history. My favourite was periwinkle - it reminded me of a dress my mother wore with her special earrings. Thanks for the fabulous memories.
The best thing about Crayola is the smell. Open a box and the smell takes you right back to your childhood.
True
NO. IT'S THE GLIDE. THOSE ROSEARTS DON'T GLIDE, THE WAY A CRAYOLA DOES. SO SMOOTH. FLUID CURVES. SEXY!
that's so true
Amen to that. I loved the smell of of a fresh box of crayons.
You ain't lyin'!
It's quite interesting, that back than a lot of crayons had names of actual existing colours and pigments, that look similar to that crayons. Now they are more focused on "fun" names, that are meant to catch attention, rather than help to define different colours.
Much of the original names would've had similarly arbitrary naming criteria, so it's not that one is more correct than the other.
Can’t wait for the “Shitty Toilet Bowl” crayon to come out.
@@CRRNCRW can't wait for dehydrated school bathroom piss covered floor
I need bathroom cleaner crayola
Can't wait for plunger red
The way you told the story from your childhood felt so much like A Christmas Story. I loved it. My mom couldn't get us the bigger boxes when I was a kid and I remember being so envious. I didn't know thistle, mulberry and dandelion were retired! I'm so sad.
I remember when dandelion was retired. That was my fave yellow
i thought the same thing!!! a very nostalgic video with very nostalgic-feeling narration
Thistle was my favorite
NOOOOO NOT DANDELION FFFFF THATS MY FAVORITE ONE!
I'm only saying this story not cuz it's gross but true & hilarious as a kid. I remember as a child that on the box it said, "non toxic". I found out when I was around 6 because my neighbor and I were trying to color our teeth with Crayons. He used pink, I used gold. We literally got into a fist fight over whose teeth were more pretty. Another time I forgot my large box of Crayons with the sharpener outside outside overnight. The next morning to my surprise, my pet Doberman ate the whole box. ....And you guessed it....I found the doody. Not to be gross, it was awesome! It looked like I emptied the crayon shavings from the sharpener melted them together. Just 1 big psychedelic Doo Doo! You could see the color gold(there's that color again) twinkling in the morning sun? I begged my mother to let me keep it! Of course to no avail. True Story!
that poor dog :( that much wax is not good for your colon.
I love that the drawing style of children hasn't changed--the stick figures we start out with are almost universal in a sense, and something about that is comforting.
I think cave paintings even used stick figures
I still draw stick figures lol
Have you seen the ones from a boy named Onfim who loves 800 years ago? He also doodled like this.
They are universal as well as drawing the sun. It is comforting.
You're right :))
I actually have a Copic marker called Flesh. I bought it about 8 years ago when I was 12 with Christmas money. I recently went to buy my first refill for it and found out Copic renamed Flesh to Rose Salmon! Thought it was interesting (but not surprising).
It IS surprising, because Copics are considered a professional art supply AND they are made in Japan (and the Japanese mostly ignore this kind of thing). Many professional art supplies call that color "flesh" or "skin tone," because it's a color used almost exclusively in portraiture, and the professional usage doesn't change because of PC politics that children's art supplies are subject to.
Nobody thinks that browns aren't "skin tones," it's just that they generally have a much wider application as basic colors.
You can make the argument that using "flesh" for a children's art supply could confuse children or introduce prejudice; but making the same argument for a supply that is used predominantly by professional illustrators is bizarre.
I have the entire Copic collection, and there are quite a few renamed colors. Like Africano, Orientale, Skin White and Baby Flesh Pink. Now they have names like Soft Pearl and Milk Chocolate.
@@bluesonicstreak7317 Fun fact, Copics aren't considered 100% artist's grade in Japan. In Japan they occupy this mid-grade between student and pro-quality supplies. The name itself comes from "copy", as in, you quickly render the image with the markers, copy it and toss the original. Though they've proven extremely popular with manga artists, they were originally designed for use in the product design industry. They're dye-based (as opposed to archival quality pigment-based supplies) and aren't at all lightfast. I've had pieces I colored with Copics shift colors after a few hours in indirect sunlight, while lightfast materials are meant to be stable for decades, if not centuries. The Ciao line is even marketed towards hobbyists and children (the caps have airholes in them in case they end up swallowed). Copics have a reputation for being 'high class Japanese art supplies' mostly because they were difficult to get up until recently. And even still, they're significantly more expensive abroad than they are in Japan (A Sketch marker retails for about 3 bucks in Japan, but costs between 5 and 10 depending on where you get it in the US. They're even more expensive in elsewhere.) As someone who owns literally every Copic (because I love markers), I find it kind of silly that there's this weird mystique around such a humble, albiet pricy, supply. You never see the same buzz around fine quality Italian oil paints.
As for the whole 'PC' thing. Japan's a rather insular country with a homogenous population, sure, but they're not exactly PC-free. You just don't hear about most of it in the West because other countries don't rabidly export their politics like the US does. I mean, heaven forbid anyone disapprove of a single tone being considered the 'default' skin color.
Also, I'm only a hobbyist painter (markers and ink are my wheelhouse), but there are very few, if any professional-grade supplies with 'flesh' in their name. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Holbien's 'Flesh'. Unless you're doing a really symbolic rendering of the skin, most tones aren't made up of a single color. IMHO, that color itself isn't even all that useful since it's weighed down with a ton of titanium dioxide, so it's difficult to mix without making mud.
Salmon just makes more sense.
not gonna lie, i kinda cried when you started showing off the old boxes with the names on them. I wasnt expecting to get emotional to a video about crayons, heh
I teared up too, it snuck up on me!
Anne who owned one of the boxes is sadly probably dead
I did as well. Just seeing remnants of childhoods long past got me wondering if the previous owners are still among the living. If they aren’t, they still left behind proof that they once lived and were full of childhood wonder and innocence. Made me yearn for my own childhood again.
I’m a little misty-eyed myself typing this up.
Me too, at some garage sales I've sometimes seen the coloring book programs from shows like Muppet Babies on Ice and a few times I bought some and I don't mind that some of the pictures are colored already. That makes them more special.
oh same here! i went to school to be a preschool teacher. one time the crayola people came and gave a 3 day seminar/art class. we got almost every product they made at the time. water colors, big markers,small markers etc, etc. i still have a lot of it!
This was such a random video to appear in my feed and I am so glad I did. This is really well made content
I got your "8 crayon box" story beat. My mother was a single mother who was a full time student, worked part time on campus, and was welfare and food stamp recipient. She planned menus and budgeted absolutely EVERY purchase she made so we would have enough to eat the whole month, even if those meals were a bit skimpy toward the end of the month. There was no "miscellaneous expenses" or "savings" in this budget. So it wasn't a surprise when she simply did not have the money to buy me crayons for the first day of the first grade.
But, miracle of miracles, about a week before school started she found a crumpled, wet dollar bill in the gutter on the way home and picked it up. With that she bought a 24 crayon box (yes, this was THAT long ago) that I happily took to school with me the first day. Once there, I found myself sitting next to a little girl whose parents had not been so lucky. I shared my crayons with her until after winter break (her aunt had given her some crayons for Christmas).
That single soggy bill made all the difference to not one, but two kids and their parents. My mother's determination and perseverance made all the difference to me, both then and now. You rock, Mom.
Such a memorable story.
What a beautiful story! Was your mom able to finish school?
This brought tears to my eyes
Your mom gave you the color of love. 👍 Wonderful story!
Oh, I was so certain it was going to turn out that you two ended up getting married years later!
But I guess that would have been cliche.
Your story was better. Real. And a wonderful illustration not only of the power of perseverance, but also of how the small kindnesses we extend to one another can have such a tremendous impact -- and how that impact can generate ripples that affect ever more and more people over time. Thanks for sharing. :)
My favourite crayons were probably Scarlet or Dandelion. (My main set was early 2000s era). Saw dandelion get retired not long ago and was sad to see it go; it was always one of the best yellows, imo, showed up well while still feeling like a calm edition of yellow. Scarlet was just very bright, and felt more "red" than most of the other reds we had. It's neat how attentive they were in several of the name situations, though; I'm glad they took misinterpretations and mistakes into account, even when their initial intents were purer.
wait, dandelion was retired?? when?
I loved bright colors as a kid so Scarlett and cerulean were always my go-to!
@@D3ViiANT Cerulean was DEFINITELY my favourite blue, omg. Very bright and nice.
scarlet was the PERFECT red for me ugh, and cerulean the perfect blue
As a professional artist who uses crayons in her work I’d have to say my favorite crayon color had to be apple green. I just LOVE The subtle vibrancy it has. It’s a color that’s soft but strong at the same time, but has a transparency do it that makes blending and boosting other colors a DREAM!! I love apple green!!
Cerulean or gtfo
You mean Granny Smith apple?
@@josephbrandenburg4373 Why not both?
@@poopsicle107 I think so, they keep changing the name on me. And I still use some old crayons from when I was a kid so like 19 years old crayons. Im just so used to looking at the color and knowing what it is that I stoped making a complete effort to remembering the names. I will have to take a look next time I’m in the Studio.
I'm always amazed at professional artists using crayons and what they can create with them, its a medium that doesn't get much attention anymore.
Jim & Dawn Cutler, Your videos always make me happy, so I subscribed!
This is perhaps the most boomer thing I've ever seen, and I mean that in a completely complimentary way. Please make more.
@@JimCutler mans responded to a comment after this video was made a year ago
@@JimCutler This video is going to make me get Crayola collection fever.
@@Luna-mo4bp It did to me
It's Boomer in a very bad way when you consider he called the Eastern bloc the wrong side.
Boomers have never been offended by crayons
I would've OBSESSED over a crayon called 'Lemon Yellow' as a kid.
Lemon yellow is a real paint pigment name and it's a pure yellow with no green black or orange tint. It's great for mixing or overlaying to tint other colors. I'm pissed they removed it.
@@maricampari3970 same
It was a great color, as were those others they got rid of at the same time 😢. Violet blue was the color of blue jeans, and orange red was tomato color! They should have just added colors. I always like drawing with "realistic" colors than the bright ones. I never liked the neon colors as a kid.
Lemon yellow is actually like the spring green color I know it because i have a oil pastel that has a lemon yellow shade i knew immediately that green color is like pemon it can be found in 64 box +
@@martabachynsky8545 same. It made me not like neon colors-
OMG this is epic ... I remember having the 64 with the BUILT IN SHARPENER ... I think it was strictly for home use, however. I coveted it. Oh, and everyone knows the best crayola crayon color is periwinkle.
@Pam Landry, My favorite color is blue-violet and periwinkle is the tint of the discontinued/retired killed off violet-blue color in the beginning of the year 1990. The tint of blue-violet being closer to the violet/purple hue than the blue hue by adding white to it will be lilac. If you love periwinkle then you will also like lilac, blue-violet, denim, indigo, blue bell, cornflower, fuchsia, lavender, orchid, Purple Heart, wisteria and the newest Bluetiful (yinmn blue) crayon color launched and sold since the year 2017 to present.
I had a periwinkle color car I was crazy about. Love the color!
Bluetiful is the reason why Dandelion doesn't exist anymore. :(
My favorite had to be Dandelion.
Yee
And yet they kept Yellow Green... a crayon that was literally a sickish yellow with random green bits mixed in.
When I was in psych ward for depression we werent allowed to use anything sharp, so no pencils or pens. We did have crayons though. We all had a pretty good laugh at Unmellow Yellow given our situation. We thought it needed some time to calm down but the nursing aids wouldnt let us put it in the solitary confinement room.
Yellow-green? I call generally call that barfbag green
Awww... If I'd been on the psych staff there... I'd have helped with a protest over that unfair treatment :)
Personally I'm a lot calmer when I haven't been forcibly locked in a small room as a punishment for having too many emotions, but I guess they didn't try leaving me in there until my brain turned to mush
@@bananawitchcraft I mean people pay to use sensory deprevation chambers.
I can visualize it in the padded cell with the tiny straight jacket lol
Can't believe I still have a mint-condition dandelion crayon in my possession. Still sad to see it retire back in 2017.
the fact i actually cried in 2017 when my teacher explained that dandelion would be retired is insane
Same here! Dandelion was the best.
I have many dandelion crayons. Not all in mint condition, but still.
i have a pack of some 😨
I have around ten of the Dandelion colored crayons, I had a HUGE box full of crayons that was passed down from my oldest brother, my second oldest brother and from me. It was basically full of multiple packs of crayons that my mom had bought for her kids over the years that got dumped into a huge box, so I can easily find some of the retired colors in there because my oldest brother is 24 now so imagine what colors of crayons he had when he was in kindergarten!!
0:25 what about Motorola
The fact that they got rid of green blue, red orange, yellow orange, and violet blue is a crime
lol the in between colors are actually useful to me ._.
Green blue was my favorite as a kid, and even though I rarely use crayons anymore, the thought of green blue no longer existing makes me sad.
Agreed.
Also, nice PFP of Mr. Boo's Vtuber.
i cry
I mean, it's because they already still had Blue-Green, Orange-Red, Orange-Yellow, and Blue-Violet
-Paintspot Infez
Wasabi!
The colors of the world is an artist's DREAM! I really hope they don't discontinue it. All of the artists that use things like Prismacolor and even Copic are excited about it.
BRO YES. I WAS SO EXCITED TO SEE THAT THEY DID THAT
That's so true
The color of the ocean before.
They make them in colored pencils, in addition to the crayons! I was stoked to get the big 24 pack of the Colors Of The World pencils, at Walmart.
Yes, I'll have a look at it too. I'm becoming an illustrator. I try not to draw human faces in color: it's so difficult or impossible to get faces, esp the range in 'white' or 'brown' faces accurately with pens or waxy colored pencils.
IRT the “flesh” crayon:
I was born in Japan in 1999. When I was growing up, crayon sets included 肌色 [hada iro], translating to “color of skin”. But now, it’s called 薄橙 [usu daidai], translating to “pale orange”.
@Cirrx Japanese uses chinese characters in their language
@Cirrx loan words, buddy.
@Cirrx its Kanji characters, the Kanji script borrows Chinese characters used mostly in names, the scripts made by Japan are Hiragana and Katakana, the former used in the Japanese language most often encasing both a consonant and a vowel (ka, ki, ku -> か き くetc) and the latter (Katakana) being used in place of foreign names or words but having emphasis on their vowels (bacon -> bekon -> べコン)
@Cirrx I'm learning to speak Japanese (currently in my 2nd year of learning in school) and I'm also one of the ones here to point out that the Japanese language also uses Kanji, not China. The Japanese language is made up of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji.
Same thing happens in Brazil. I'm 23, so I grew up in the 2000s, and we would call that type of beige "cor de pele" (flesh coloured).
What a fun video to watch. Narration and editing is 10/10.
You made our day, thank you :)
Spring green is my all-time favorite crayon. I remember it from when I was a child in the 70s. I also vividly remember Prussian blue but according to this video it was discontinued 11 years before I was born! The only explanation I can think of is that I either was given some hand-me-down crayons from a much older cousin or my Mom probably picked up an old box at a rummage sale. This video was great and highly entertaining!
I wasn't born until the early 2000's and I remember prussian blue too.
Thé colour spring green hurts my eyes haha
In the description he mentions that some of the old stock continued to end up in newer boxes so that's possibly where you got the Prussian blue crayon
Children: "What's Prussia?"
Crayola: "Trust me, you don't wanna know."
oh please tell me why, at least we can stand behind our past and where we came from you cowards
I love prussia
Prussia balls
@@Deadflower019 🌚
russian
I honestly think that the "flesh" crayon should be reintroduced, but should be the color of viscera instead.
That's what I've always interpreted the word flesh to mean anyway.
They could also do a grey green "zombie flesh"
Everyone's flesh is the same color if you remove the skin first
@@pikmin937 to bad it all tastes the same to
@@acetheone5765 h u h
listening to this channel feels like the narrator in A Christmas Story. I love it
I adored the section of this video when you showed Anne’s and Judy’s proud signatures. I would wonder the same about where their lives took them. The circus picture is a piece of history when circuses were literally road shows. My mom was born in 1936 on a Pennsylvania farm and has talked several times about how they had to draw elephants in school one day and she hoped to see one in real life, so your close up of the elephant drawing really touched me. Thank you for such a wonderful video!!!
my great grandma grew up speaking polish, so as an adult she used “basic” color words. when my grandma was 6 they bought her a big set of crayons for christmas. they sat together on the floor reading all the label names
It’s a bit crazy as many of these banned color names are simply the traditional names for different pigments-like that flesh tint or the Prussian blue. I had both of those in my very first set of oil paints.
Side note: I’m also slightly irritated that today’s children will never experience the frustration of accidentally grabbing orange-red instead of red-orange. Or yellow-green instead of green-yellow.
I want them to bring Prussian blue back. I think kids need to want to know where Prussia is and what the names of colors refer to. Sometimes it can be really interesting.
yeah, right!? LOL
actually, i learned about colors from those crayons and i still refer to a red-orange or an orange-red there’s a difference. whatever they call them now, how’s a kid supposed to learn that difference with the stupid names they give them. and artist’s colors do not use those names. how would we know what color is in the tube? even with the color stripe on it? and isn’t there still a prussian blue? or is it called dark light blue with a dash of purple :)
Funny thing is, I actually have colored pencils I bought a few years back that have those colors, and it brought me so much pain when I messed up
😅😅😅
Many colors served to expand our vocabulary and teach us about the world. It is so sad that children today must have a dumbed down box of crayons.
In loving memories of lemon yellow, maize, raw umber and violet-blue (1903-1990), orange-red, orange-yellow, green-blue and blue-gray (1958-1990).
Excellent video. Thanks for mentioning my website. And here's to an even deeper state of crayons no longer in Crayola's color rainbow: celestial blue, English vermillion, Madder lake, Permanent Geranium Lake, Gamboge Yellow, Venetian Red. All of them were there in 1903 except Gamboge Yellow and none of these were retired or banned. They just simply disappeared from their line ups. So much history for such a simple art medium.
OMG......
I Want Rainbow....
I WANT RAINBOW....!
I'm more impressed that you managed to get all these rare crayons
Thank you for this.
Favorite, 1960-1976: "Carnation". Loved the floral colors: Thistle, Periwinkle, Dandelion.
I also loved the box of Crayola crayons that my paternal grandmother kept in her kitchen. It was lovely to see packaging like hers in this piece.
19:43, Sunday 14 November 2021
I misread that as... Cremation.
@@kaiyotee2475 that would probably be a mixture of gray and brown lol.
@@carmacharmella27 yes
I actually genuinely enjoy the way you guys put this video together
Oh my God! This is a walk down memory lane! Every year I begged my mom for the 64 box with the magical sharpener in the back. oh how I longed for Gold! Silver! Copper! and my favorite, Blue-Green! Only to receive the 8 color box instead, we couldn't afford it. But there is a happy ending, my dear friend Kathy sent me the 64 box as a present this year! It is magical to have it. Thank you Kathy!!!
I am now determined to replace my 64 box from @$/&() years ago. So many options. And the metallics! 🖍🌈🖍🌈
@@squalter.kaufmann Hooray!!! Very cool 😎
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@@squalter.kaufmann Hey whats the year? That doesn’t make you
Look cool :(
The ″Flesh″ incident happened in Japan too. It was called はだいろ(hada-iro) which literally means skin color. Now it's called pale orange.
Cool!
here in spain we still call it skin color
Hada-Iro is now my favorite word in japanese heh.😊
it makes sense why they got rid of it becuase not everyone is white
TH-cam recommends me cute stuff today. This was a charming little video, the production and humor were great. I appreciated the bit at the end showing older boxes owned by people. It reminded me of the big 64 pack my parents bought me when I couldnt go to school due to being sick. Periwinkle was actually one of my favorites because it was a shade of purple I had never seen before. "What does that even look like" is a sentence that resonated with me and still feeds my sense of wonder and curiosity to this very day.
I never forgot the name "periwinkle ", learned before I went to school, from a box of 64 that lived in my grandparents stairway. I remember finding out later that it was named for a flower, imagine my excitement when I finally got to see a living periwinkle and it was the "proper " color! Oh, what things we save in our memory banks.
Yes! Periwinkle and cornflower 💙
Periwinkle was my favorite, too! So many colors that I loved but periwinkle just had something magical about it. Maybe in the end it was mostly the sound of the name. lol
@@barbarakangas3255 yes! It's still one of my very favorite colors. I even found periwinkle nail polish.
Named for a flower, it's beautiful.
I have a 216 pack of alcohol brush markers, and soooo many of these retired names are used in that set. Some of my favorites! Raw Umber, Prussian Blue, lemon yellow, blue gray, green blue, thistle… such great names!
I bought myself a box of 64 crayons when I was 65 because I always regretted only having a box of 8. It made me feel great, funny I know, but I knew I had finally arrived. Thank you, Crayola!
I did the exact same thing for the exact same reason! Lol! And the scent of the crayons is awesome.
Yes, only the really wealthy students had the big box of crayons.
@@denickite I certainly wasn’t wealthy but I was an only child, so I always had the big box but I had no problem sharing.
you bought a stack of crayons xd
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I loved this trip down memory lane. In my 71 years, I have purchased many boxes of crayons. They have to be Crayola because the others are like trying to color with a tinted candle. My favorite was always periwinkle. Thanks for the memories.
Periwinkle has always been my favorite, too.
@@bigred9428 +1
You're not kidding that it's like trying to color with a tinted candle! I noticed the same thing.
My favourite was always periwinkle, tried to colour everything with it! I even grow periwinkles in my garden ;-) although the flowers actually range from purple to blue to pink in colour.
You are not wrong 😂
I remember when I was younger (I think like 2nd grade?) we had these "About me" posters, and one of the questions was what was your favourite colour? Well, I never had one, because all colours are nice. My mom told me to pick a crayon out of a I think 32 count Crayola crayon box, and I pulled out orange red. I remember grabbing that and using it every time because it looked "more red" to me. The fact that they retired it devastated me.
I always used scarlet for the same reason you used orange red. It’s a very bright red, and I’m a sucker for bright colors.
what? I still use orange red, I have an outdated box I guess
Orange red was my FAVORITE it's so sad its retired!
@@jaxsterminator8634 I used scarlet because I thought it said scribble when I was little and that would be exactly what I would do with that colored crayon
THEY WHAT
Jim & Dawn Cutler, I really enjoyed this video, so I hit the like button!
Thank you
i had no idea “scarlet” was originally named “torch red”, it was one of my favorite crayola colors as a kid!
Fun fact: In the 1890's a company called Binney & Smith devised a method to manufacture a soot pigment from oil and gas. Later, they mixed the soot with a solid material - paraffin - hated by oil producers to create "dustless chalk". The dustless chalk was so popular, it won a gold medal at the 1904 World's fair. They later manufactured colors mixed with paraffins/waxes and gave the product the name "Crayola" - a combination of the French word "craie" for chalk and an English adjective meaning "oily". However, a rubber company - B. F. Goodrich - later found that adding carbon to rubber greatly improved its strength and abrasion resistance among other qualities, so Binney & Smith also produced their soot (that is, carbon from oil/gas) for tires, which allowed their business to thrive not only for crayons but also the automotive industry.
This comment deserves it's own video 🙂
Fascinating. Thank you.
damn they were really in their bag 💸💸😩
WOOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!
The word "Flesh" with no context is just such a threatening sounding word. 😂
My gosh, I remember all these, especially the thrill of the sharpener. The names did teach us a lot - words you'd never normally hear. And yes, the Crayola smell. Also, the joy when 'white' came out. Thanks for this.
Anyone know any crayons colors that should be banned? For example the “Macaroni and cheese” one, it’s an orange that resembles the powdered cheese from a box of Kraft. I remember actually eating that specific color of crayon and it was not fun.
I remember eating the erasers because the package said "crumbs" and sharing them with my friends, I thought of cookie crumbs
I wanted to "like", your comment and then I saw it had an appropriate number of likes so I went to write this reply and two people "liked", the comment and ruined the perfect number.
I remember when macaroni and cheese crayon came out. I was so thrilled about it but never really used it unless I was desperate for anything resembling orange.
well, ain't that a choking hazard.
Mac and cheese was my favorite too
As always..a fantastic piece.. Cerulean Blue.
YES
I still have that volir in my box
I always used that type blue
"Reminds me of a cool breeze..."
My favorite crayon color was Cornflower Blue. I believe it was “retired” many years ago. But I always colored the prettiest places in a book with Cornflower.
Me too, Linda!
Me too!
Me three.
Aw it’s been so long since I used crayola, Cornflower got retired? 😔
in the 96 pack it has cornflower (i checked)
Prussian blue is still a color for paints, tubes of acrylics, oils and even watercolors.
The best thing about the Crayolas is that often they were named after their proper color (read professional art supply) names.
They still use the term “Prussian Blue” in adult art supplies. It has a specific pigment number. People don’t use it much because it fades to gray in sunlight within a year or so. However, when you put the artwork in a dark place, for some reason, it comes back. When I was younger, Magenta was my favorite color.
As far as I can recall Phthalo Blue green shade, a touch of Raw Umber, and a smidgen of Payne's Gray,.will give a blue that functions the same effect - or near enough. I haven't used it in many years simply because of the fading you describe.
As well as the tenuous connection to the Eastern Bloc, Prussian Blue gained so dark history during and after the Second World War. It was noted that the walls of the gas chambers used to murder the Jews and other victims of the Holocaust and the soil around the vents the gas was vented out of after they died were stained Prussian Blue. Some was present in the Zyklon B pellets used ( the cyanide gas was not piped in as a gas, or generated by dropping potassium cyanide into liquid acid as is the case in the US, the victims would be packed in tight and the Zyklon B (a commercial insecticide and rodent poison) dropped in and the combined body heat of the victims would cause the cyanide to sublimate and form a gas) as a by product of manufacture but not enough to cause the staining. It’s hypothesised that the cyanide would react with the paint and body fluids of the victims to form the pigment.
In the early 2000s there was a far right ‘musical group’, formed if two 11 year old girls, called Prussian Blue for this reason.
Azul de prusia.. a beautiful blue.. acrylics dont have it, doesnt fixate.. just oils can have this bue...
Magenta is still my favourite!
I remember this from Bob Ross' Joy of Painting.
My favorite was actually periwinkle and it still is. I bought myself the prized 64 box when I was about 50, the very smell of those crayons makes me giddy for school to start in the fall. I have not started school in the fall for nearly sixty years, but I always have a few crayons to bring out for my granddaughters. I got into a little trouble back in preschool when I tried to eat a purple crayon, I think I tried to pretend it was a grape lifesaver. Thank you for your charming
Dude I remember that if you got the 64 box and brought it to school(specifically in like K-to-4 levels), you were the cool kid
As for 5 to 12 either you're seen as like an art savant or a lazy bones
Is that you, Carla?
I ate a crayon once and turned my spit green, I believe I was 16,way too old to be eating crayons, I know, but I did and I don't know why
@@TheCaptainAmeliathis is an instant classic comment
I remember using Raw Umber, Violet Blue, Teal Blue, and Dandelion all the time as a kid. My favorite color is definitely macaroni and cheese simply because I remember first seeing the color as a kid and thinking it was a really cool name for a crayon.
The macaroni and cheese color never really looked like macaroni and cheese colored to me as a kid. XD
Wild strawberry was my total fave ever
Oh my gosh, what a GREAT video! Brought back so many memories to me (I too only had an 8-Crayon box, but I thought I was sooooo lucky to have it!)--do you remember using used Kraft grocery bags (no $ for buying white paper to just use for coloring. I often remember my favorite scents of First Day of School--the wood smell of a freshly sharpened Ticonderoga pencil and whatever ink was used on those mimeographed sheets that were handed out. So silly to think of the importance of those two scents, each first day when they were handed out it was like spring, anything was possible, I would make new friends, I would excel in ALL tests (that one never happened), I would be popular (alas, that didn't happen either). Thanks so much for the solid information as well as the humor and the memories!
Hahahahah!! And thank you!
I like white, and here’s why. Draw something on a piece of cotton. Colour it heavily with white crayola. Next colour over the white with any colours you love. Sandwich the cloth between two pieces of paper bag and iron it with a hot iron. The white helps set the other colours and you have wearable art. Wash in cold. If it fades, you can just repeat the process.
Neat!
Got to try this
Gotta try that
One summer I taught arts and crafts for the city. The craft of the week was too hard even for ME to learn, so Instead I had the kids bring in any light colored t-shirt. I pulled out all of our broken Crayolas and had them decorate their shirts. I told them to color heavily (to use up those stubby pieces!) and then ironed off the wax between sheets of newsprint. We all got to wear our creations to the end of summer picnic.
As for using white crayons for art-I liked to tell the students to draw an underwater scene using only white, then to paint over it with blue watercolors. I loved hearing the oohs and aahs when their pictures would magically appear!
I still have the t-shirt from my daughter's 4th grade choir recital that was decorated by the children with an ironed crayon design. 🖍 What a sweet memory, thank you 💖
As a kid back in the 60's, getting a new box of 64 Crayola's on Christmas morning was such a HUGE deal. To this day I can still sit with crayons and a colouring book. Prussian Blue was my favourite. I remember all those 'retired' colours.
the clockface of big ben has been restored to its original colouring: prussian blue. for about 100 years it was black. no problem with the name here in uk
I will always mourn this terrible loss. How could they retire lemon yellow, for instance? Do we no longer color lemons?
Crayons are just so satisfying. Especially Crayola ones. Just feeling their smooth edges and knowing you can make anything with them. And the colors are beautiful.
I'm 75 now, but I've always been fascinated with a full box of crayons with every color in it, it was a status symbol in itself! I used the "red" color frequently on my fingernails, because it made my hands look pretty with bright red nails. I didn't think ahead too much, because it was embarrassing when the teacher came along, and saw my nails red again! Especially since I'm a guy....
Oh, by the way, I'm a video producer now, and that was a very well produced video!
Cool!
Nice dude!!!! (Even if ur a guy you can wear nail polish btw!)
Oh wow nice dude
aww :)
How come no one is talking about the production/editing/narration of this video? Its stellar. Legit this channel made banned crayon colors into a personal narrative. Bravo.
It really is--SO clever!
I agree this was a great video, not to long just enough interesting information, and great anecdotes. I enjoyed it.
Super late to the party, but I appreciate all the production that went into this video. For some reason, Crayola products are very difficult to find in Japan. Sure, I could easily order them online, but it's not the same as shopping and picking them up in person. I recently rediscovered Crayola after I found some new, unused boxes at Book-Off. One is a 24 count box dating back to 2010, and a 64 count box dating back to 1999. Both boxes even include the discontinued Dandelion. Did you know that dandelion in Japanese is tampopo? It is also the name of a 1985 Japanese comedy film. I recommend it!
Was going to say that too! This quality is stunning for only 1k subscribers.
Isn’t that kind of ironic though? I’ve heard a lot of artists say Japan has tons of stores that sell art supplies you won’t find in American stores.
Or so I’ve been told.
@@TheSlipperyNUwUdle It's true that you can get a lot of art supplies here that you won't find in North American stores and vice versa. Japan already makes amazing stationery and art supplies; Craypas (Sakura Colors Corp.) being one of the the most common in elementary school classrooms. So, it doesn't make sense for a company like Crayola to try to enter/expand in an already saturated market.
On the other hand, I've noticed that Sakura rebrands a lot of their export products, and a lot of their export products aren't available in the domestic market. For example, the Sakura Petit Color watercolour kit was rebranded as the Sakura Koi watercolour kit overseas, and the signature Pigma Micron pen is navy and gold in colour, but the overseas version is beige. They also have a line of export erasers called the Sumo.
At the end of the day, the brands and the packaging of the products we use doesn't change their function. But I do find the range, selection, and availability of these products interesting. I think this sort of "region locked" products have always been around, it's just that the internet has made it easier for us to see what we're missing out on.
I'm even more late lol
It feels wrong when I remember this, but I could swear there being some “dandelion” crayon mascot at my local target when they were discontinuing it
Cerise was and still is my favorite crayon.
There was an ongoing crayon related argument in my aunt’s Sunday School class because she insisted we color the people on Bible coloring pages with the peach crayon. It was pointed out to her that there was only one person that color in a class full of Mexican American kids, and it was her. So we should be allowed to color people other shades of brown too. She refused to accept this, among other logical arguments like they would likely at least have a tan being in the Middle East. It made its way to the minister, my grandfather, who told her to stop arguing with the kids, especially since they were right. There were still skirmishes about the peach crayon for another 20 years (she’s stubborn), and coloring the people in “shocking” ways was my favorite pastime. She got particularly upset about brown Jesus with red hair.
So..... maybe we should be thanking God, as well as crayola for the colors of the world creation !!! Yes, just as it says.
should have given Jesus long blue hair
@@insignificantopinions3210 I would have, but the fight was more effective if we kept it to “natural” hair/skin colors.
As an Orthodox iconographer, I help preserve our church's 2000 year old history of making Christian art. I have had some disagreements with my own kids (who I taught ) over the traditional colors and styles to paint some of the clothes on the icons. Of course like the pastor's good advice in the story, it was best to let them win, and I still come across their work from time to time. BTW, referring to your story, It's interesting that some of the old sources have at least red or auburn highlights (or a description like that) for His hair. Some traditions have him descended from a line of red-heads (called by a term translated ruddy-colored) all the way from King David. You rarely see His mother Mary's hair, because it is contained in a snood, but when it is shown down it also matches His. Hope you have a wonderful Christmas season! Feliz Navidad!
Jesus's skin in the bible was described as a darker hue and his hair was woolly in texture. Wait until she meets a brown man with Afro-textured hair waiting for her at the gates lmao. She might ask if it's too late to go to hell.
Periwinkle is a type of flowering plant, and yes, the flowers are a light dusty blue color.
I don't like how crayons of any brand have switched to soy wax, it doesn't color as well as whatever wax they used to use.
I always remember Periwinkle as the name of Tinkerbell's sister
Is it the wax as well as the lo pigment percentage? I stopped enjoying crayons because there is no color any more.
@@ColorJoyLynnH Yeah, the crayons mainly just put out uneven streaks of color rather than an even coverage.
Crayola used work the best, but not any more, they're no better than the cheap crayons now but still command a higher price.
I remember the school used to buy a brand of crayons- Prang. They were made from soy wax and did not smell wonderful like Crayolas!
The flowers Periwinkle kind of glow-in-the-dark at dusk.
I remember "that kid" in my class that had the biggest crayon box and wouldn't let anyone touch it... i also remember the burst of colors, so many ! And the first time i saw a gold and a silver crayon, what a sight to behold in the late 70's, early 80's, when gold and silver were a staple in Barbie fashion - my ULTIMATE PASSION ! I still love crayons at the age of 42 and there's nothing like the smell of a brand new box of crayons, it just takes me back to the happiest times of my life 💕.
Lol same here. I even asked for that box for Christmas , my mom was like you better ask for something else because you are not getting that. 😣
I was so happy to inherit a 120 box when my father died. I didn't know there was a 200 box! Now I need that.😅
Bronze & copper...
My Sun is 30 plus Still has a Big box of Crayons UNTOUCHED!
I remember “that kid” too. Though in my case, she had a great big box AND a smaller box of bright psychedelic crayons. She was a trendsetter…and she knew it. Only a very lucky few were allowed to try the coveted crayons. And I was not one of them.
It’s a really, REALLY long shot but if that box from Judy came from either California or Texas then the age closely matches my aunt Judy. She has since passed but that made me smile a lot and brought some good memories to mind.
I miss her for sure.
Great video! I grew up poor in the 60's and yes, I too was hit with "Crayon Envy" when I saw that other kids had the bigger packs than me. The 64 pack was truly the Holy Grail of crayons and yes, like you; I was totally envious of my classmates who came from two parent households who could afford such "luxuries". Ahhhhh, childhood memories! They never really fade, do they??? Again, great video!
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@Jim Atkins: I shared your experience as a child. You are right, those child hood memories never fade and like you, I relived them in this video. My 64 color box is a prized possession
I was, and still am, utterly enamored with MAGENTA! Not red, or purple, or blue, but a beatious amalgam of all 3. Thrilled when 8 I found out Blue's Clues dog had a girlfriend named Magenta.
Aw man, I loved mulberry.
Another thing I love is your narration, the comment comparing it to A Christmas Story is spot on. Feels fun and nostalgic.
The little drawings and names written in the boxes towards the end were so cool, I love thinking about who used to own old things.
A side note on Prussian Blue: This specific name was also used for the shade of blue that contained cyanide to produce the colour. It may have been altered because of those connotations too.
Meh, what’s little deadly poison? We grew up around lead paint, yard darts, and any other number of things meant to “thin the herd” so that only the strong of us survived.
Prussian Blue is still a color name common to many manufacturers of artist oil paints.
Wait, didn't the chemical Zyklon-B leave a Prussian blue stain on walls?
(Zyklon-B is the "gas chamber" stuff)
Awesome topic! Ive always loved color- I'm a makeup artist today and i still collect crayons and coloring books. Thank you for this informative and sentimental journey ❤
Imagine how cool it would be to have every single color Crayola has ever made
I love crayola crayons. I collect all the colors I can. I would love to get the box of 200.
Christine Knowles
Just imagine owning like shelves full if them like in a pattern And just looking like it
My favorite color, red, and violet.
@@glassontherocks I wonder how clear crayons would look… and how would the color look on paper? But it’d be pretty cool and unexpected tho
That would be so cool
For some reason, I liked the "WHITE" Crayon because if you had dark-colored construction paper it was the perfect pick!
I do hate how white is removed on some I think?
Crayola is the reason I grew up thinking I my race was peach. Until I was 10, I'd never heard of the concept of white people, black people, etc. In 5th grade social studies, when the teacher introduced a discussion about Martin Luther King Jr by talking about skin color, no one in my class could "accurately" name our skin color, or at least what we were supposed to call it. We kept guessing peach or orange or brown or sepia. When the teacher told us we're considered white or black, we laughed uproariously. It was absurd -- looking down at our own arms and each others', wondering how anyone could see us as white or black when we were definitely peach or orange or brown or sepia! Ah, youth.
1:25 I had the same plane, I forgot the name, to control, you need to put your hand below, in a tight area where the ceiling is shorter, you can easily catch it!
Does anyone else remember the trauma that you either had to ruin your crayon by peeling the paper down, or else stop coloring, once you had worn it down? I remember the impasse.
OMG! I’m 72 and had completely forgotten how upset that always made me! Or, when the crayon would snap!
Me too. What to do. I am 81. Burnt sienna was and still is my favorite color. And that wonderful smell when yu opened a brand new box of shiny new crayons.
@@carolmeagher4134You and me. Carol…burnt sienna!
To this day it bothers me when someone has completely removed the paper from the crayon.
In rolled the crayon sharpener
This is a delightful presentation, chock-full of wit, fun facts, and good humor. Incidentally, I have always been fond of the "Cornflower Blue" crayon because the name conjures up such a lovely image!
*chalk-full
**chock full
@@benkoopman178I may have misused the hyphen. I'm prone to do that sometimes, lol.
@@DAMN_ITS_GOT_SPOTS_ON_THE_TOP you're good, I was correcting the previous reply lol
O I see now, thx, and greetings from SC, USA!@@benkoopman178
My favorite crayon as a kid was Cerulean. I always thought it was the best sky blue. I used the word cerulean in a college English essay and my professor said he had to look it up. I felt quite... cultured for using a word an English professor didn't know, lol. I'm also an artist so I know a lot of color names.
I learned the word cerulean from The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein by Carol Ryrie Brink--who is better known for writing Caddie Woodlawn. Irma uses it to describe the eyes of the imaginary doll that causes all the trouble...her teacher has to explain the word to Irma's classmates.
It was always my favorite too! And it’s how I learned what “cerulean” is!
This was incredibly charming. Thank you, sincerely.
You are an excellent storyteller! I enjoyed this video a lot
Nice, a verified person!
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I love your videos temi
Agreed
@@JimCutler l enjoyed this video ALOT :-D the story was very interesting (coloring fan from way back & still coloring :-D )
That was a fun few minutes down a 71 year old lane. Periwinkle is still one of my favorite colors.
My youngest sons favorite color!
@@gentleasa5728 He has a good eye for color. The whole purple family is one of my favorit groups. Purple, periwinkle, pinks, reds and blues. Right next to that group is red, white and blue; I'm very patriotic. Next are the yellows and oranges. Finally, greens if they are bright or neon. Drab colors like olive green are a big NO. Browns? Not in my closet.
Mine too
I had a periwinkle minivan that got t-boned in a snow storm. Bad memory for me.
My Dad always painted the wood in our backyard, 'Indian Red'. Picnic table, bench, clothes line pole and fence.
Genuinely loved Periwinkle, funnily enough. It was a pretty shade of blue-purple to me, and the name just sounded neat, cute and calm, just a generally good vibe, hah.
But Robin's Egg Blue was also one I really liked, yeh
So was Dandelion, it was always perfect for having a different shade of yellow, like how you had pink and hot pink or magenta, you could also have Dandelion help fill that gap to give more variety to your doodles
My big crayon pack is what helped start me off as an artist today, still forever thankful for it ^u^
Oh same… rip those colors
PERIWINKLE IS MY FAVORITE COLOR
Also, you can get prussian blue in watercolor paints, oil paints, acrylics, pastels and more. Only Crayola removed it.
Your tribute to the original owners is touching. The flesh colors of the world first came out in the late 70s-early 80s. It was originally an box of eight. As an adult I was gifted with the plastic display box of 72. It was a joke gift, but I still treasure it. And I envy you your box of 200.
Cornflower is another crayon color gone, this was a very pale color blue
The multicultural colors first came out in 1992 as an 8 pack. Then they came up with the 24 pack Colors of The World in 2020. I was a fan of Burnt Sienna.
When I saw this recommended to me, I thought it would just be like one of those TOP 10 FACTS videos with a simple narration. I'm so glad I clicked on this because it's so much more. I chuckled so much at the narration and story about your childhood, and I'm so impressed by the craftmanship you put into this video. Thank you!
I don't know what I was expecting when I clicked on this video, but I certainly wasn't expecting such an entertaining, creative video with stellar narration! Excellent production quality! 👏🏻
Didn't think a video about crayons would be so impressive lol
Same!
only 9k subs!
Absolutely entertaining and worth the time. Excellent narration.
I've been drawing cartoons for most of my life.I had no idea when I casually clicked on that I'd be so entertained.This is a great video...I'm sure it's been mentioned in the comments below,but I felt I was watching..and listening..to yet another project from the narrator of A Christmas Story.You made Crayola Crayons so interesting..and funny...well done.
Awesome! Thank you!
When I was a kid, my favorite color was the periwinkle. I am glad you put it back. Put it back in the 64 where it originally was. Thanks. Watermelon would be a good color.
true, watermelon red
Yo, we still have periwinkles at my country
This feels like a very Christmas Story style narration, and I am here for it.
Especially the part where he was reminiscing about his 8 count box of crayons, that reminded me so much of the Red Ryder bb gun scene. He even sounds like Ralphie lmao-