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CHARCOAL PAINTING

Charcoal drawings are made by using charred sticks of wood to make a drawing. They are impermanent, easily erased or smudged and can be used for sketches.

Charcoal drawings are made by using charred sticks of wood to make a drawing. They are impermanent, easily erased or smudged and can be used for sketches.

Since Charcoals drawing edge is soft it favours broad, vigorous drawing, with an emphasis on mass and movement rather than on linear precision.

A large number of charcoal drawings from the 16th & 17th century have survived, including important work of Albrecht Dürer, Paulus Potter. Charcoal drawings continued to be created throughout the 19th and 20th centuries and into the 21st. There are many noteworthy examples by such 19th- and 20th-century French artists as Édouard Manet, Edgar Degas, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Material Required

Charcoal stick Camlin
Charcoal pencil set of 3 Camlin
Blending brush
Blending stump
Cotton bud
Brustro drawing paper 160 gsm
Needed eraser
Tombo mono eraser

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