What's in a stick of charcoal, really?

I am so, so sorry for disappearing on y'all. So much has happened since we last talked, and I will be sharing it with you from now on.

Blogging is hard work. Almost as hard as Astro Nuclear Physics. Truly. You've never read up on it, so don't argue with me. I've never read up on it either.

Sooooo.....

Charcoal. Wonderful to cook Jollof rice on. Excellent to grill Suya to the right taste level. Even better to draw with.

KwangHo Shin

Alex Tzavaras

Kelvin Okafor

Kathe Kollwitz

These are lovely examples of the beauty and flow and life of charcoal (seriously I prefer them to most oil paintings). I got some recently and decided to put them to the test.

Inscribe charcoal sticks and some random Chinese set

 

 

 

 

 

 

Derwent charcoal pencils

I got the Inscribe set and Derwent pencils from AB Artworld and the Chinese sticks from some art store, all stores are located in Ojuelegba.

I have shown how dark each gets, and how soft each brand is. IMHO, none is bad (THAT IS THE BEAUTY OF CHARCOAL, PEOPLE!), they just make different marks, it's upto you to use it as you feel. I will say that pencils give you more control when drawing and are less messy but sticks give you that wonderful flow of movement.

Now, if you will all excuse me, I'll go back to cooking jollof, errrr.....I mean drawing, with Charcoal.

Laters.