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PASTELS,
CHARCOAL AND PIGMENTS AT THE ART BOX
PASTELS
CHARCOAL AND SKETCH
STICKS AND PENCILS
PIGMENTS
Caran D'ache
Neopastels:
Neopastels are professional quality oil
pastels with superb smoothness and blendability. These pastels are
absolutely dustless. They are made from permanent pigments
that are equally suited to intense coloring, delicate shading, and
subtle transition of hue. The Art Box carries open
stock and sets.
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.
Expressionist Cray-Pas Oil Pastels:
The Art Box carries sets.
Holbein Oil Pastels:
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.
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.
Rembrandt Soft Pastels:
We offer you the full range of
Rembrandt colors in open stock. Rembrandt pastels are made from the
purest pigments and mixed with the finest quality kaolin clay
binder. No pigments containing heavy metals, such as cadmium, lead,
and cobalt, are used in production which ensures that the pastels
have no hard bits or sharp edges. These pastels are harder in
consistency than many soft pastels, allowing for more control and
definition in your painting. Full sticks measure 2-3/4" long ×
7/16" diameter (70 mm × 11 mm). They are paper wrapped, and are sold
individually. Half sticks are available only in sets.
Schmincke
Soft
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 sets. We have some samples on display
for you to try, so 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.
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.
Unison
Soft 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.
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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.
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.
China
Markers:
This high quality, smooth writing all purpose marker marks on any
porous or nonporous material. Especially suited for writing on
china, glass, metal, plastics, rubber.
Cretacolor Compressed
Charcoal:
Produce an even, smooth, dark
black stroke. In contrast to the natural charcoal, compressed
charcoal can be recognized by their darker, precise and
consistent strokes. Imported from Austria. Available in soft,
medium and hard charcoals in boxes of 12, or sold individually.
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.
General's
Charcoal Pencils:
General’s® original
charcoal pencil is an extra smooth, rich, intense black, family
formula dating back to 1889. Made with genuine Incense Cedar
wood, available in 5 degrees and Charcoal White®. Sold
individually.
General's Charcoal:
Compressed Charcoal: These
extra-smooth, high-quality charcoal sticks offer rich, intense,
blendable blacks to create broad strokes or fine details. Each
package includes one medium, one firm, and two soft sticks.
Individual sticks measure 3" × ¼" × ¼" (76 mm × 6 mm × 6 mm).
White Charcoal: Each
package of General's White Charcoal offers an assortment of four
white, smooth, compressed sketching sticks.
Jumbo Charcoal: Each
package contains three Jumbo Charcoal Sticks, each one slightly
less than three inches in length. This compressed charcoal can be
sharpened to a point for detail work. It blends easily with a
paper stub.
General's Powdered Charcoal:
General's Powdered Charcoal is a super
fine, 100% pure, artist-quality charcoal. It is a willow-type
charcoal, extra soft, and intensely black. Excellent for all pattern
work and pouncing.
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.
Grumbacher
Artists Vine Charcoal: Made from the highest quality natural
wood carefully selected for uniformity, texture, and drawing
quality. Four degrees of hardness give different densities of
black when used. Available in packs of three (extra soft, soft
and medium).
Koh-i-noor
Gioconda Charcoal Pencils: The
Koh-I-Noor
Gioconda
Charcoal Pencils provide professional artist quality results.
Prismacolor Vine Charcoal: This
natural vine charcoal is carefully selected for its consistent
texture. It is extremely versatile and creates dark grey
marks that can easily be erased. The Art Box carries
packs.
Richeson Vine
Charcoal Sticks:
Designed for the professional artist, draftsman, and architect.
The selection of raw material texture, hardness, and size were
carefully studied to guarantee the finest drawing/sketching
material for the professional or student. 3/16" dia. Sold
individually.
Ritmo Charcoal Pencils:
This pencil combines the
rich blackness of a charcoal pencil with the smooth control of a
graphite pencil. Artists will find this smooth, black pencil less
abrasive than a charcoal pencil and will come to appreciate the
intense lines and expressive freedom made possible with this
remarkably versatile drawing medium.
Sennelier Willow Charcoal Sticks:
Created for the most discerning
artists, these premium quality vine charcoals are made from the
finest willow rods. Repeated slow burning allows our non-compressed
charcoals to combine the following qualities: deep black hue,
uniform texture, soft, velvety touch. The Art Box carries
packs.
Wolff's
Carbon Pencils: The carbon pencil is the perfect combination of
charcoal and graphite. It has a fine grain, and goes on smoothly and
precisely in rich, velvety, matte black lines. Carbon pencils have a
consistent softness, for superior blending and texture.
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Gold Leaf and Metallic Powders:
These powders have many uses and mix with clear media ranging from
acrylic mediums to shellac. You control the pigment content--use
very little for a translucent veil of metallic or use more for a
solid metal look. Specially selected for the professional faux
finisher, architectural restorer, sign maker, or picture framer.
Jacquard Pearl Ex Pigments:
They can be mixed into
any media and applied to any surface! And the variety of finishes
Pearl Ex can produce is nearly endless—from metallic sheens to
pearlescent shimmers to all manner of faux finishes.
Pearl Ex creates a
metallic look without being a metal. The particles are flat
platelets with two surfaces, therefore it lays down beautifully like
a thin coating of metal. The different particle sizes produce
different looks—from a fine, smooth, pearly luster to a highly
metallic sheen.
It is a safe,
non-toxic, inert powdered pigment with a neutral pH. It is extremely
color fast and stable—it will not tarnish or fade and is therefore
ideal for archival applications. The Art Box carries 3g
jars.
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:
35g gum arabic in
liquid form
7g glycerin
1g egg yolk
1g preservative
enough pigment to
reach the desired consistency
Grind and grind and grind.
updated 7-2-2009
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