The day's lecturer, Matt Marcy, a former student who now performs on cruise ships, dissected a crowd-pleasing illusion in which audience members secretly choose a crayon color, a number and a country.

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That is why you now see Hello Kitty with a rough crayon-like face line.

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An eclectic crowd made up of conventional art lovers, edgy artists and craft enthusiasts wanders through, reflecting on an equally diverse collection of exhibits, from 1980s crayon drawings to a towering 19th-century weathervane.

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In many school districts a student can be suspended for crayon drawings of handguns or for wearing an NRA T-shirt.

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At Phillips, an untitled Basquiat charcoal and crayon work on paper shows a black man, Christ-like beneath a crown of thorns.

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Krauss, best known for The Carrot Seed and husband Crockett Johnson, creator of Harold and the Purple Crayon, met Sendak at 22, after he had suffered a series of rejection from publishers.

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Here's my line for a detective novel: Buddy Shepard(ph) wasn't the brightest crayon in the box, and on this particular evening he was going out of his way to prove it.

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Etch A Sketch, Mr. Potato Head, Crayola Crayons the 64-crayon box with built-in sharpener, of course.

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Dine alternates among charcoal, India ink, litho crayon and other drawing tools, often on the same pieces, giving a lesson in the possibilities of tonal variation using implements that must have been high tech before the Renaissance.

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The poem, written on Army notepaper in blue crayon, consists of four 10-line stanzas, each ending with the name of a distant outpost of the British empire.

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