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PASTELS,
CHARCOAL AND PIGMENTS AT THE ART BOX
PASTELS
CHARCOAL AND SKETCH
STICKS
PIGMENTS
- Schmincke
Pigments
Schmincke
Pastels: (Shming-kuh.) Incredibly smooth, soft handmade
pastels that are a joy to use. The size of the stick is so substantial
that you'll really feel like you're getting your money's worth.
Each one is paper wrapped to keep you fingers clean for effective
smudging. The Art Box carries the entire line of Schmincke
Soft Pastels and also sells inexpensive try out sets in wooden
boxes so you can be sure you like them. We also have some samples
on display for you to try. Come by and feel them flow over the
paper.
Sennelier Soft Pastels:
Sennelier extra-fine soft pastels are the Rolls Royce
of pastels at a surprisingly affordable price.The intensity of
their pigments and their exceptional softness will be appreciated
by anyone who works in pastels. Made the same way, by hand since
1900, they were the favorites of Degas. The purest pigments are
mixed with minimal amounts of natural binders to yield lightfast,
watersoluble pastels. They are highly concentrated and so soft
that a gentle stroke delivers a solid, powerful line of brillant
color. Made in France. The Art Box carries sets. The entire
range of 552 colors is available by special order.
Unison Pastels:
Probably the most talked about pastel for the past few years,
these handmade pastels come from the studio of John Hersey in
the hills of Northumberland, England and have taken artists by
surprise. They are incredibly soft, many containing no binders
at all, being solid pigment rolled with a little water and allowed
to air dry. Others use a little weak starch or gum to hold them
together without interfering with the color. No other pastels
flow so smoothly into the tooth of the paper. Of course, they
are expensive, they're virtually solid pigment, and they
are so soft it can be hard to control the flow of the color, but
they'll make you smile. Made in England. The Art Box carries
sets and open stock.
Rowney Artist Soft Pastels:
Artists' grade pastels made by Daler-Rowney. These pastels
are nice to use and uniform in texture. Medium-soft, they hold
together well as you draw with them. Lovely soft shades of color.
Made in England. The Art Box carries sets.
Prismacolor Nu Pastels:
These are the best selling hard pastels in America. They
are very inexpensive and come in a wide range of colors. Try using
them on suede matboard or sanded pastel paper. Often, pastel artists
use hard pastels for sketching in the basic form of the drawing
and then use soft pastels for the highlights. The Art Box carries
sets and open stock so you can choose the colors you like best
to add to your pastel collection.
CarbOthello Pastel Pencils:
Top quality pastel encased in a wood pencil, CarbOthellos
sharpen well allowing for a fineness of detail often hard to get
with pastels. Available in a wide array of beautiful colors, they
are highly blendable and watersoluble. They're as easy to use
as colored pencils, but produce a wonderful soft pastel surface.
Made by Schwan-Stabilo of Germany in the Czech Republic. The
Art Box carries sets and open stock.
Conte Pastel Pencils:
This famous company makes a fine pastel pencil. Rich
wonderful color in an easy to use format. These pencils are reliable
and smooth. Made in France. The Art Box carries sets.
Sennelier Oil Pastels:
Sennelier Artists' Quality oil pastels were originally
developed in collaboration with Picasso in the 1940's. These creamy,
lipstick-like pastels are rich in pigment, very opaque and lightfast.
Created in a palette very close to oil paints, they may be thinned
with turpentine and worked with a brush. They are acid-free and
can be applied to any surface, paper, canvas, wood, or metal,
for mixed media works. Sennelier Oil Pastel Fixative is available
in a pump spray bottle. Made in France. The Art Box carries
sets.
Pentel Oil Pastels:
This student grade oil pastel has wonderful clear, brilliant colors
that apply smoothly. They blend easily for subtle shades, tints
and color mixtures. They are long lasting and fade resistant.
Made in Taiwan. The Art Box carries sets of 12, 16, 25,
and 36 sticks.
Savoir-Faire Nitram
Charcoal: A non-compressed, dense black charcoal, traditionally
hand-burned in France from the finest quality willow. Ideal for
professional artists and students alike, these charcoals are velvety
smooth and resistant to crumbling. The thin vines are square,
hold a sharp edge and come in H, HB, and B. The three unique large
sizes are very popular with teachers and are the biggest charcoals
available anywhere. The Gros Decor is a rectangular stick
measuring 5/8"x5/8"x5 1/2". The Maxi Decor is a cylinder
1" in diameter by 6" long, and the huge Baton de Saule
measures 1"x2"x5 1/2" Made in France. The Art Box carries
open stock.
Bruynzeel Charcoal, Sepia,
and Graphite Pencils: Bruynzeel makes nice charcoal
pencils. The blacks come in a variety of hardnesses, and have
a smooth flowing feel on the paper. The "Sepias" are beautiful
shades of sanguine and brown, excellent for capturing the figure
or the landscape. There is also a white to highlight the artist's
work. All the colors blend beautifully. Bruynzeel's graphite pencils
are woodless, giving a broad stroke when held at an angle to the
paper. The graphites are graded for hardness. You will love these
products. Made in Holland. The Art Box carries open stock.
General's Charcoal Pencils:
Inexpensive and reliable, General's graded charcoal pencils
are a pleasure to use. They come in 2B, 4B and 6B hardness which
gives the artist the ability to vary the strength of the drawing.
Made in the USA. The Art Box carries open stock.
General's Willow Charcoal:
General's willow charcoal comes packed in a clear plastic
tube containing 5 assorted 6" pieces. Inexpensive and easy to
carry, the variety of hardness provided gives the artist varying
shades of black on the paper. Grown in England. The Art Box
carries tubes.
Yarka Willow Charcoal:
Produced from willow branches scorched without access
to air, Yarka packs its willow charcoal in wooden boxes
with slide open tops. There are 50 sticks 4 3/8" long. Thickness
varies. The sticks give smooth coverage of a soft-medium grade
which provides easy shading from black to pale grey. Made in Russia.
The Art Box carries boxes of 50 sticks.
Conte Crayons: Fine,
smooth-drawing sticks. They can be sharpened to a chisel tip or
used flat on the side for various shading techiques and super-imposition
on other drawings. The Art Box carries the classic sketching
colors which include the graded Blacks, Greys, Sanguines, and
Whites. We also carry the Landscape, Portrait, and 12 Color sets.
Made in France.
Cretacolor Charcoal
Pencils and Artist's Chalk: A beautiful line of sketch
sticks and pencils sold in lovely sets. One set comes in a tin
box and contains graded charcoal and graphite pencils, sketch
sticks and a kneaded rubber eraser; the perfect gift for someone
who likes to draw. Sketch sticks come in shades of grey or brown
and are available in sets of 8 colors. They are highly lightfast,
water soluble, erasable and blendable. A pleasure to use. The
Art Box carries sets. Made in Austria.
Alphacolor Char-Kole
and Alphacolor White : Square Char-Kole sticks, these
are very soft and incredibly black. They blend easily for shadowing.
The white is equally responsive and soft. Made in the USA. The
Art Box carries packs of 3 and 12.
Ocaldo Sketch
Sticks: A marvelous tool for drawing and
sketching. A square stick that is not pastel, chalk or crayon.
Like charcoal with an easy blending nature, these sticks come
in a range of 6 colors to capture a still life, the landscape,
or the figure. Wonderful to take to a drawing class, they come
twelve sticks to a box for around $6.00, very inexpensive as sketch
sticks go. A BEST BUY from The Art Box. Made in England.
Schmincke
Pigments: The wonderful German company Schmincke makes
their high quality pigments available to artists through this
line. Finely seived pure artist's pigments packed in 100 ml.
glass jars, ready to be ground with oils, gums or other mediums
to make your own paints, pastels and concoctions. A classic
recipe for egg tempera combines egg yolk, pigment, and water.
The pigment is ground with the egg yolk to the desired consistancy.
A more contemporary recipe is as follows:
Grind and grind and grind.
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