Cretacolor - Dry Stick
Dry Stick
Sketch bold compositions quickly with extra-wide sticks in warm earth tones
Sanguine and sepia washes that cover broad areas in seconds, these oversized sketch sticks eliminate the tedious back-and-forth of standard drawing media. Each stick measures roughly as wide as three pencils side by side, letting you block in tonal masses, establish compositional foundations, and develop atmospheric backgrounds with immediate, gestural strokes.
Cretacolor formulates these sticks from compressed pigment that releases rich, earthy color whether you drag the flat edge across paper or use the corners for linear accents. The extra width becomes a tool itself: angle changes produce everything from broad washes to crisp edges without switching implements. Traditional sanguine delivers warm reddish-brown for figure studies and portraits, while sepia light and sepia dark provide the cool brown range essential for landscape underdrawings and tonal studies.
Dry application means you control exactly how much pigment transfers, building from transparent suggestion to opaque coverage through pressure and layering. Life drawing sessions, plein air sketching, and preparatory studies for paintings all benefit from the speed these sticks provide. You establish value relationships and compositional structure in minutes rather than hours, leaving more time for refinement and detail work.
PRODUCT INFORMATION
- Extra-wide format covers large areas quickly
- Available in sanguine, sepia light, sepia dark
- Ideal for bold, expressive sketching
- Dry medium prevents smudging during work
- Perfect for tonal studies and backgrounds
- Works well on textured papers
