Enjoyed video found it interesting and informative postive and watching progress was wonderful, what size paper do you you usially use? Its the paper that confuses me most..mikelle art mom🎨✍👩🎨🇺🇸🇨🇦
Haven't looked at art in years...was beating my head off the wall with watercolour and 🤦♂️..you brought me home to charcoal...forgot how much I love it...thanks Paul ❤😁
If budget is a factor, making your own willow charcoal is easy. I made one batch that will last me years with stuff I had lying around the house, from willow branches from trees here on the farm.
@@dadsongs1. collect willow branches, about a finger thick or so (they will shrink a bit in the proces). 2. Take the bark of so you just have the pale wood. 3. (Optional) let it dry (it chars quicker when dry) 4. find a metal container with a lid (I used an empty Lyle's sirop tin can) 5. IMPORTANT, make a small hole (couple of mm diameter) in the lid. 6. Stuff as much willow sticks in the can as you can, and close the lid. 7. Make a small campfire, and put the can in it. As the contents of the can heat up, the hot wood will produce flammable gas that starts to escape through the hole and catch fire. The charring proces is complete when no more gas escapes, but leave it in a bif longer to be sure (the whole proces took me about twenty minutes/ half an hour). 8. ALSO IMPORTANT, don't open the lid immediately; when the hot charcoal comes in contact with oxygen, poof, bye charcoal, you just made some ash. Give it some time too cool off then open the lid. Good luck with it.
@@dadsongs I only tried willow, it grows on my property and I knew it is a good wood for this. I think softer woods would be best and I would avoid wood with a of of resin in it like from pine trees. Grape vines should work very well. Just experiment!
