Immortalise your Heroes in carbon, in the perfect charcoal portrait. This box contains Coates Willow Charcoal Sticks, Seawhite Black Compressed Charcoal Block, a Koh-I-Noor Gioconda Charcoal Pencil, 2 Lyra Rembrandt Chalk Pencils, Lyra Rembrandt Splender Pencil, Winsor & Newton Medium Kneaded Putty Eraser, Faber Castell Perfection Eraser Pencil, KUM Magnesium Double Hole Pencil Sharpener and a PaintOn Grey A5 Pad containing 8 sheets.
Phoebe has loved art from a very young age. She received a classical training in fine art at The Florence Academy of Art, graduating from their three year painting program in 2012. Phoebe took part in Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year 2017, painting Sue Perkins and Imelda Staunton. She currently lives and paints between Kent and London, always with her terrier, Lupin, in tow, working on commissioned portraits of people and animals, predominantly working in charcoal and chalk, as well as oils.
Instagram/ @phoebe_cripps_artist
Website/ www.phoebecripps.com
Humans and charcoal both have a high percentage of carbon in common and this month we want you to use the carbon based tools in this box to create a portrait of a your 'carbon hero'. Use the tips and inspiration included to create an image of this special person in your own style. It can be a realistic drawing, an abstract interpretation or an artwork inspired by them. Explore and create.
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The highest quality charcoal from the Coate Family's renewable willow beds on the Somerset Levels. The result is a superior charcoal, black in colour and smooth in texture as favoured by fine artists.
Ideal for broad, expressive drawing and fine detail. Its smooth application is easy to blend and layer to create deep dense tones and is naturally water soluble allowing for interesting line and wash effects.
A charcoal pencil ideal for fine-tuning your sketches and neatening any expressive charcoal marks. This pencil gives you those well loved traditional charcoal textures with great control and a sharp point.
These oil free pencils can be blended and blurred to perfection using fingers, cotton buds or putty eraser. They layer extremely well and are fantastic for adding realistic shading or highlights to your work.
This Lyra Splender, colourless blending pencil, when applied with a little pressure, gives a glossy surface and helps blend tones together seamlessly.
A 'putty’ eraser which can be sculpted for erasing ease, into a fine point for delicate details (useful for picking out highlights) or used on mass to lift larger areas of charcoal without smearing.
Perfect for fine detail erasing and sharpen like ordinary pencils. It's great for precision erasing when a little more control is needed. Think of it as reverse drawing rather than erasing.
A great addition to any artists pencil case, perfect for larger diameter pencils. The blades are high-carbon steel and therefore resilient and very sharp. Ideal for tapering blunt pencils into the perfect point.
The weight of this paper makes it a suitable surface for a variety dry techniques. The mid toned surface is particularly useful for creating dramatic contrast between highlights and shadows.
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