History of Graphite Pencil Painting Technique

Before discovering the graphite pencil, metal tips of gold, copper, zinc, silver, lead, and alloys such as lead and tin were used.

If one of these tips is passed over the paper with sufficient pressure, it will leave a trace made up of very fine metal particles. It was widely used in the manuscripts Depending on the metal, they produce a very delicate brown or light gray line of metallic reflections. The surface (paper or parchment) needed a special base made from pulverized bone, water, gum arabic and dyes. The metal tip is used by Van Eyck, Botticelli, Leonardo and Durero, among others. 

Basic Techniques With Pitt Graphite

The Pitt range of graphite offers all creative artists a wide range of pencils and chalk of varying degrees of hardness for drawing, graphic design and shading. The "Faber green pencil", which Van Gogh and Goethe have already mentioned with praise, has already become part of everyday life. The 16 degrees of hardness range from soft gray to intense graphite black and offer artists a wide range of possibilities. Pure graphite mines are perfect for creating contrasts and shading large areas. These pencils offer endless possibilities to express themselves spontaneously and create different effects depending on the pressure applied and the degree of hardness. They are sharpened just like any other pencil.