Art Graf Water-soluble Graphite 20g Tin, Grey

I am having so much fun using this graphite! It’s so easy to use and creates beautiful tones. Paired with water soluble graphite pencils it’s awesome.

Whether you’re a graphite or multimedia artist this little tin is great. It is water soluble so it, a small water brush and a small sketchbook provides a great means to get value studies down quickly. Use it to tint watercolors or on its own.

If you have never used graphite to paint with, you should try it. It’s not a true black but it’s pretty dark and works with water with watercolor. I just did a painting of pears on gesso textured paper and love the look of graphite on the texture paper. This is a good quality product for professional art creating. Try it! Good value for the money.

I purchased this based on a video posted on YouTube about different art products. This one seemed really interesting and I wanted to try it out, as I use a lot of watercolors, graphite and charcoal medium. Very interesting product. It's slightly different than typical watercolorz as it has a heavy body and the graphite has a very obvious difference in consultancy. It's easy to learn how to manipulate it, and it's fun figuring out how bet to use it. You can layer it if you work carefully, to achieve dark values and it can be reworked to create lighter values. It's very similar to a gouache in some respects because of how workable it is. Once dry, it can be erased fairly easily to allow further working of the surface, which means it has a lot of possibilities for projects. My biggest con is that it's obviously messy. It has a lot of loose graphite in the tin, but I know that's just how it has to be considering the medium is a pressed graphite. Just know that you'll want to be prepared for the eventual dust so it doesn't get onto your project accidentally. The other biggest thing to note is that you'll want to deal your work with a fixitif as soon as you finish, as it is a graphite, and will rub away and transfer if you do not. I haven't tested to see how it works with a coat of fixitif on the paper, but I assume it does not preform as well, so I suggest fixing it after you've completed it. A great medium though. Very fun to work with and I'm excited to use it in more projects!

I'm enjoying experimenting with this product. I knocked off one star because it arrived with a chunk broken off from one side of the graphite cake (and completely missing). The metal tin arrived safely sealed in a little plastic bag, so there's no possibility that it broke in shipment. Still, I expect what remains to last me a pretty long time. I just think it shouldn't have been been broken like that in the first place.

I like to use this along with water soluble materials and permanent materials too. It is smooth and looks so cool. Especially good for urban sketching or architectural rendering.

This stuff REALLY rewoke my muse. I love working with this!

Wonder medium to work with