Conté à Paris Drawing Pencils

Video: Conté à Paris Sketching Techniques Using Pencils & Crayons

A range of traditional drawing and sketching pencils with a variety of exceptional leads. All Conté pencils compliment the Conté Crayon perfectly and blend well with them.

Sepia Pencil - this gives a colour reminiscent of burnt umber. It shades easily and when sharp gives an accurate and delicate finish. With a half-worn lead, the finish becomes more opaque as the pressure exerted on the pencil increases

Sanguine Pencil - The colour of the Conté à Paris Sanguine pencil is a deep "rust" and its lines are easily blended.

White Pencil - best used with a sharp lead, this pencil gives a clear line with a transparent colour.

About Conté à Paris

The story of Conté à Paris products is closely linked to the personality of its creator, Nicolas Jacques Conté born in 1755. During the fifty years that he lived he was in fact, a painter, chemist, physicist, inventor and balloonist . The historical contribution of Nicolas Jacques Conté is indisputable.

He developed in 1794, modern graphite leads, which consists of a mixture of clay and graphite and finally enabled the varying scale of hardness. Thus the manufacture of pencils he created in 1795 allowed France to produce its own writing and drawing products. A few years later, he developed the "pencils without envelope" (naked leads) replacing those made of "stone of Italy". It worked to make its colours "fixed and unchanging" to meet the expectations of painters and art pencils and pastels for artists were born.

Over the decades, the quality of these products and line extensions have allowed the brand to become a reference for artists worldwide. Used by the great masters but also by amateur artists or students in Fine Arts, pencils and pastels by Conté à Paris offer the widest variety of techniques and possible effects for drawing, sketching and pastels.