Carefully manufactured by skilled craftspeople, the Pierre Noire pencils have a soft, smooth lead particularly well suited to drawing, sketching and outlining.  Like all Conte’ a Paris penicls, they may be sharpened with a knife or blade. 

All of the Conte’ a Paris pencils are excellent for portraits, life and landscape drawing

The sanguine is commonly used in sketches to sketch the body. For a more elaborate work, it is advisable to add Black Chalk to accentuate the contrasts and White Pencil to highlight the areas of light on the body.

Its color is a deep red, varying on rust, The Medici blood pencil offers a darker shade reminiscent of Renaissance red chalk, and brings diversity.

The eighteenth-century Sanguine pencil is particularly intense and above all luminous, with a small hint of orange.

The lead formula allows for a dry line that blends easily.

The graduations range from H (Hard) for hardness to B (Bold) for softness. The higher the number, the harder or softer the pencil.

The Black Stone Pencil can do all shades of black, it is intense, indelible and matte.

The color of the Sepia pencil from Conte in Paris evokes burnt umber. It’s a dry pencil that blends easily.

The Blanc de Conte pencil in Paris is mainly used sharpened, the line is dry, the color transparent.

Characteristics:

• Essential assortment for sketching
• Pigment-rich
• Made in France

Directions for use:

The color of Conte’s Sanguine pencils in Paris is unique. With a trimmed lead, the line is precise, the color is transparent if the work is lightly sketched. With a half-worn lead, the opacity increases, also depending on the pressure exerted.

The Sanguine Pencil reveals the weft of the paper.

The Black Stone Pencil can be used on all supports such as sketch pads, kraft paper, linen canvas, it is recommended for nudes, landscapes, quick sketches. With a trimmed lead, the treatment is nervous and precise. With a half-worn lead, the work is more spontaneous and free.

White is the essential complement to all other pencils, its primary function is to suggest the rendering of light: to soften the values of a nude, to give the axis of light on a volume.

The color of the Sepia Pencil evokes burnt umber. With a trimmed lead: you will obtain a precise and delicate result. With a half-worn lead: The result is more and more opaque depending on the pressure exerted on the pencil.It is recommended for quick sketching, nude, portrait, and landscape. Indeed, it allows you to shade the most contrasting parts of a body. For portraiture, he can emphasize and enhance the values of a face. Perfectly suited to landscape creation, it allows you to instantly obtain the color of a trunk or the facade of a house.It can be used alone in a minimal way, but its miscibility allows it to be used with blood, white, charcoal, and black chalk pencils for a more elaborate rendering.

Pencils can be sharpened with a knife or cutter.

This assortment in the Sketching Pencils Set of 6, Sanguine Assorted contains the essentials of the Esquisse range: 1 Sanguine XVIII pencil, 1 Sanguine Medicis, 1 Pierre Noire 3B, 1 Blanc, 1 Sanguine and 1 Sepia.