9/28/2023 0 Comments Softest pencilOf course, for me, the most important test of any medium is taking it Marks! It’s as dark and opaque as sumi ink! Yowza, this pencil is not for theįaint of heart, but it emboldened me quickly. Tentative in my strokes and was startled by the solid blackness of the activated Wielding a brush requires more dexterity and control than a pencil, I was a bit Which was also my first use of a waterbrush using my non-dominant right hand. My first test sketch with the Viarco carbon was my hand, That was inadvertently left unactivated initially, it may result in an undesirable The risk, though, is that if you have even one tiny particle Would be safe to use with watercolor or other water-soluble materials afterĭrying completely. Only traces of reactivation when more water was applied. The washed areas, however, are smudge-proof once dry.ģ/27/21 ArtGraf carbon and Primo Bianco whiteĬhalk pastel in Stillman & Birn Nova sketchbookĪs for water-activation, dried washes of all three pencils show The downside is that dry carbon smudges even more than soft graphite does. Have the reflective sheen of graphite, which makes it appear darker that way, When dry and clearly results in the darkest, richest wash. The water-soluble carbon is the blackest of the three even Material would be reactivated with additional water (shown toward the bottom of After the washed areas were completely dry, I gave eachĪ swipe with a clean waterbrush to see whether the previously water-activated I smudged each swatch with aįinger (seen toward the top of the swatches). įor each swatch, I made one pass, heavily applied. I made test swatches of the Viarco carbon next to the ViarcoĦB water-soluble graphite and an Ivory Black Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle.
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