Conte Sketching and Drawing Color Pencils

The colour of Conté's Sanguine pencils in Paris is unique. With a sharpened lead, the line is precise, and the colour is transparent if the work is lightly sketched. With a half-ground lead, the opacity is accentuated, also depending on the pressure applied. 

White is the essential complement to all the other pencils, its primary function being to suggest the rendering of light: softening the values of a nude, giving the axis of light on a volume.