Graphite Cigar
$13.50
Our pigment cigars are carefully formed using an old wood cigar press, using a blend of pure pigment, softened with English China Clay, a natural mineral clay from Cornwall. Each cigar measures approximately 4″ x 1″.
The wood press ensures the resultant crayon has a rounded tip, which allows expressive marks to be made freely. The binding is just enough to hold the pure pigment colouring in stick-form, yet the drawn mark is immediate and can be easily smudged and manipulated on the drawing surface with fingers/paper stumps.
Watch artist Sandi Hester use the pigment cigars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oau_6RyB1oU
The Cigar Crayon can also be worked into with water – to create washes. The binding is water resoluble, so drawn marks can be modified as required. You can also work with mix media, for example, introducing watercolour or acrylic colours (in dilution with water) to enhance/change the drawn marks. Suitable for use on all art papers but especially good onto toothy supports. Wallace Seymour Pastel Primer (Pumice Ground) is the ideal liquid primer to use to prepare paper/boards, etc. the dried pastel primer has a gently abrasive surface, which helps catch and hold pigment as the Cigar-Crayon contacts with the support.
The use of such abrasive grounds minimises the need to use fixative to hold the finished artwork.
All of the pigment cigars have been custom created for Jeanne Oliver Designs by Wallace Seymour.
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