文档介绍：Female Nude in Charcoal
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Charcoal is typically a medium to be loved or loathed. In an
instant it can create those rich blacks that any graphite artist
will envy, having squandered hours to achieve the same
result. However, es a price, and that price is dust.
Charcoal (particularly vine charcoal) will do its utmost to
distribute itself wherever it can: on fingers, under nails,
unwanted smears across your page, usually everywhere
except the very place you wanted it.
A Sandpaper Ideal for grinding down charcoal, or sharpening it
to a point.
B Vine Charcoal Assorted sizes. (note: vine charcoal is made
from the willow tree).
C Vine Charcoal This came from the garden of John Ruskin, and
was formed in larger sticks, though essentially it is the same as B.
D Chamois Bought from a car shop and can be used to blend.
E Colour Shaper A rubber tipped tool designed for blending and
shaping pastel/charcoal and paint (available in artshops and on
the ).
F Charcoal/Pastel Pencils Charcoal can be bought in pencil form.
It saves fingers from ing blackened, and can b