Marabu Art Crayons

With their super-soft consistency and smudgability, Marabu Art Crayons are not only easy to use, they provide great colors, opaque coverage, and offer flexible technique options. They're suitable for most porous surfaces and work particularly well on watercolor paper.

The wax base permits easy movement with your fingers, even on a non-gessoed surface, though an Ink Blending Tool or cosmetic sponge work equally well. You can also apply the crayon directly to your Ink Blending Tool Foam, smoosh it around to even out the layer of color, then apply to your surface. You can color a large area quickly this way and the technique works really well with stencils. As always, for a crisp image, do not overload the Ink Blending Tool Foam with pigment. A little goes further than you might think.

Apply gesso as a base coat and you'll find that the Art Crayon pigment moves even more easily!

Art Crayons are water soluble and a wash can be made by applying some to a palette or non-stick surface and agitating the pigment with a wet brush. Do this until all of the material has been diluted with the water. The more water added the lighter and more transparent the color will become.

Packaged in a twist up, lipsitck like plastic container, simply twist to expose more of the pigment. Art Crayons are available in open stock colors and in sets.