Sanguine can be a drawing, crayon or chalk. There are various different shades it can actually be. Flesh, or an absolute blood red, or a reddish colour. This medium can be used for drawing. It has oxide in the pigment and the content of it is generally chalk or clay. This is also the main colour in Conte crayons. Red chalk, as a term, is the name of the shade.

Sandy Paste is a very interesting texture which also spreads very well. It is often used with pastels and is a gritty acrylic type of paste that is the colour of sand.

Scale really is how you put in proportion the sizing of the dimensions of one thing against another. When drawing to scale, the scale would be the ratio of your drawing to the first drawing. So if you did your drawing to half scale, it would be half the size of your original.

Triptych – Basically this is a set of three paintings which all relate to each other. They can be connected together or hung side by side. Sometimes they are, in fact, hinged together. The central work being the main subject with the other paintings flanking either side of it. These can be mounted on a sort of platform affair and sometimes they are like carvings.

Diptych, which are quite popular, is a set of two pieces of art which can be shown with a space between them or joined together. Polytych is made up of four, or, even five paintings.

Automatic Drawing can be achieved with a pencil or brush. This is an interesting conception as this type of drawing really is drawing without thought. It is often called Automation and was favoured by surrealists as it afforded them more freedom in their work as non conformists.

Working like this you often arrive at Abstract Expressionism, as this on the spur of the moment type of art often produces fascinating results.

Graphite used to be called black lead years ago, but in essence, it is a form of greyish, black carbon. It, at one time, was used for writing and came in sticks with lumps on them. Clay and graphite makes up the pencils. Interestingly enough, even now, some pencils are named wrongly and are still reffered to as lead pencils.

Conte Crayons go back to around the 18th Century. These crayons are made up of graphite and clay which has variances, which, in turn, can be used to create different degrees of hardness.

The content is similar to chalk, has a slightly greasy feel to it and does not crumle much. These crayons are used for drawing and can be obtained in black, red and brown. Conte was a portrait painter when he was young and he invented the modern graphite pencils we now use.

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