Using Brushes with Charcoal

Coffee Beans, part III

Today I wanted to share one of my favorite ways to work with charcoal; we will work through how I use brushes and apply powdered charcoal to the page.

Photo by Alin Luna on Unsplash

In this video, I am using the following:

• Coffee beans from my local roastery

• Strathmore 400 Toned Tan paper, 9x12 inches

• General’s 4B soft charcoal pencil

• Sanding block/paddle/re-tipping tool/lead pointer

• Compressed charcoal stick

• Flat tip paintbrush

• Music from William Agosto’s YouTube channel because it’s awesome

Let’s get started!