How to Use Pencil with Charcoal for Painting

Video Transcript

"Hello, I'm Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you today how to do advanced painting techniques. The next in advanced painting technique is not purely a painting technique. We're going to actually introduce pencil and charcoal into our paint, into our painting. Now, some purist will say "well, what do you mean, it's painting, you can only use paint." It's actually not true. Many artists work across different lines of media. You'll have paintings that have pencils and charcoal effects integrated into the painting. Often time's graphite or charcoal will really come forward in a painting, which is why they also do not encourage you always sketching in graphite underneath your canvas before you paint, because actually it may show through. But, on the other hand if that is what you are going for, it can be a really neat effect. Artists will use charcoal or pencil in different areas, but often times it's to heighten edges. And sometimes these can be very, very sharp edges or in this case just kind of like making it around the sun area and I'm not really thinking too much as I do this, just kind of illustrating how charcoal and pencil can amplify and heighten the painting effects that are already there. Now, because charcoal can smear so readily, you're going to have to really watch out how you apply it and you're also going to have to make sure that you have some type of protection at the very end when you're done with your painting. Otherwise, inevitably, somebody is going to go "Wow, that's great, oh." Now, people its awful whenever they do that, it's annoying whenever they do it to a painting. It's even worse if you have any graphite effects because you're going to have some serious smearing going on. But definitely consider graphite and charcoal for areas to basically emphasis your edges, especially around buildings. You can also put this on here, quick spray treat it and then paint over it again to get more of a milky effect."