Learn Conte Crayon

Conte Crayon! What is it?

Why do so many artists enjoy working with this medium? Here, you will find out why and, through six fun, easy and rewarding lessons in a step by step, information-rich format, develop your drawing skills using this wonderful medium!

What are some of the advantages to learning to use Conte Crayon? Conte Crayon has a light oil content, so, unlike charcoal, the pigment sticks to paper. Yet, you can shade with Conte Crayon and produce wonderful depth of shading. Also, you can highlight by using an eraser. Conte Crayon lifts off the paper easily with an eraser so you can work shading and erasure back and forth until you get just the right shading and highlighting effects.

Conte Crayon comes in wonderful earth-colored sticks (dark browns, sepias, ambers, terra cotta reds, dark blues and blacks) that are small and easy to handle. By rubbing the Crayon back and forth on a piece of paper, you can bevel the end to a point, which permits you to make a fine, expressive line.

A drawing in Conte Crayon can be made permanent by an application of fixatif, and because the pigments are pure and permanent, a Conte Crayon drawing on good quality, acid free paper will not change over a period of decades.

If you like to draw and shade, give Conte Crayon a try with these six fun, easy and rewarding FREE lessons with videos to show you step by step, information-rich demonstrations of basic skills and techniques!

Read my Ezine article, "When Is A Crayon Not A Crayon?" It's all about the history of Conte Crayon and its uses for artists and art students!

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