Schmincke Liquid Charcoal Review 

Having a couple of blacks around is very handy. Sometimes I like an opaque black (carbon black) sometimes something like these where the washes are just so beautiful.

Oh, I just picked up a tube of Peach Stone. Very fun!❤ I did a quick Swatch and found that when dry they do rub off/ smear by themselves, but when mixed with watercolors they are very stable. They don't erase well but they lift well with water... Mixing peachstone with lemon yellow makes a beautiful green!

This was fun! I love experimental videos like this. In my experience, it's better to work with these straight out of the tube vs letting them dry in half pans. They dry rock hard and are darn near impossible to re-wet. I was able to mix them into watercolors successfully, but the graphite will still come off, so paintings may need a fixative. Thanks for this video!

I am very happy that you explored these.. I have them and they are truly beautiful. I also use some Cretacolor charcoal sticks and use them for a little more color. There is a product called "Liquid Pencil" by Derivan that have a bit of a tint to them. They come in about 5-6 colors such as red, sepia blue - all with a dark greyish cast. There is even a yellow. The Derivan group has two types - permanent and rewettable - so they are the same material in different binders. Jackson's has them if you want to give them a go. They do have a bit of a graphite sheen though (Just sayin' ! HA!) They can be used along with watercolors for beautiful granulation effect, I think. The granulating effect is due to the size of the graphite pigments. They like to settle on the paper and you can see even more of an effect on a cold press paper such as you are using. It also lifts beautifully because it is non-staining. You should be able to actually erase out highlights, too, with a Mono Zero eraser. It is pretty cool stuff. I love the monochromatic effects for a nice change. They are quite nice. I have so many supplies that I would love to use more and I love seeing demos, as it is very encouraging.

Good to know. Thank you for sharing.

This is a fantastic review, it looks wonderful❤❤

Thank you for the demo. Always learning 😊 I think it would be nice for a night sky 🎨

Uuuuh, I was waiting for this ❤

Thank you so much for doing this very helpful and informative demo!

Informative demo. Thanks

Ohhhh they are so moody! ❤ I love that they are made from the fruit pits! Hard to choose a fave. Do they feel different from liquid graphite, such as ArtGraf for example? That does dry down shiny but its interesting to work with nonetheless, as you don’t ever get really dark value shades.

Liquid charcoal; cool! I’m not really into these paints, but I might try them in the distant future 🙂. Hope you are doing well 😊.

been so curious about these-thanks for this demo! I wonder how these differ from the ArtGraf?

I've found that to make Graphite WC shine, you'll need to rub the back of a spoon over the area, when it's dried, that you want to shine ..... it's worked with the Kuratake Graphites (LOVE that product) .... it would be interesting to see if it also worked with Schmincke liquid graphite ;)