Pencil Charts

Pencil Charts are important and useful tools, they make your work more precise and dynamic. I try to do charts of every art material I’m working with. Subtle nuances of tonalities are important for me and charts are fundamental in my work.

They are really important for coloured pencils, as not always the colour of the barrel matches the core. Most of the time they are close, but some in some sets they are way off. It can be frustrating when you pick up a pencil thinking it is a Prussian blue and you end up with purple on the paper.

I have a method to create charts. I fill a blank chart with all the colours of my set, cut them all individually and reorganize them in order. After my chart is organized, I create a PDF of my definitive chart and complete it.