Pigment Cigar Set

This item is for pre-order. Once we place the order it takes one month to have these handmade, shipped from England and then shipped to you. I promise you it is worth the wait!

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 coloring in stick-form, yet the drawn mark is immediate and can be easily smudged and manipulated on the drawing surface with fingers/paper stumps.

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 watercolor or acrylic colors (in dilution with water) to enhance/change the drawn marks. Suitable for use on all art papers but especially good onto toothy supports.

The Cigars come in this custom set of colors, hand-picked by Jeanne Oliver.

1. Burnt Sienna
2. Puisaye Burgundy Apricot
3. Leighton Red Ochre
4. Pink Reddish Shade
5. Catrigg Green
6. Victoria Green
7. Malham Green
8. Chrome Oxide Light
9. Ivory Black
10. Magnetite Black
11. Amberg Yellow
12. Turquoise Green

All of the pigment cigars have been custom created for Jeanne Oliver Designs by Wallace Seymour.