Design Media: Powder Graphite

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"It creates textures you can also go into it with a brush. I would use a cheap brush; nothing, not a very good brush and you can start pushing this around sort of like an ink wash or a, or a any other fluid medium. You can see that you get a lot darker with that than you can get with a straight pencil lead and you can also play around with this, let me put just a little bit in here. We're just going to play around with just moving it around with a brush and a little bit of alcohol. This won't work so well, this won't work with water. Water won't work with this. You really need the alcohol to scatter the pigment and then when your finished and everything is dry. You really do need to treat this with a fixative a spray fixative. Also, the other thing to know about this is that you can not erase this. You can erase that as long as it's kept dry. You will be able to erase that. Once you've sort of mixed it with the alcohol, you have lost your ability to erase. So you have to kind of go with the flow but this is great way to start bringing fluidity into graphite. It is also a wonderful way just to get beautiful graphite washes."