Art Graf Water-Soluble Tailors Chalk Square Disc, Red

I read the reviews before purchasing-thank you, everyone who goes to the effort to comment on purchases--and saw a number of comments about not being able to get a purple when mixing these colors, which suggested to me that the red leaned more towards orange than towards a blue-red. This has proven to be the case--the red is kind of brick color.Given that heads-up, I also ordered the singleton magenta to fill in the gap. The magenta and blue together make a very pretty range of true purples from lilac and lavender through a deep iris If you're seeking purple--there you go.I also find that the cover for the cork three-pack is sized generously enough to slip the single in on top of another piece of graphite--obviously not while wet, but it's a means of keeping the spare from wandering.I also have a green (looks like a blue-green in the picture) singleton on order. If anyone is curious about how this blends, let me know and I'll post the outcome.

I do love the product and don't like to ding it with Amazon's shortcomings, but when it was delivered the disc had broken into several pieces. Now, this doesn't affect the product's usability, other than It's harder to take it out into the field without bits of it getting everywhere. With just a little more care in packing it wouldn't happen. But I do love this little opaque pressed disc. It's a great thing when painting on location!

All their products are great IMO. Worth noting that this tailor shape square graphite is a harder grade than their softer graphite in the tin, so this one will make a lighter mark when picked up with your wet brush than their graphite in the tin. For that reason, they give you a choice of values, similar to having a 4B and 8B pencil. Of course you can pick up and draw with this tailor shape graphite, and you can't do that with their tin, so really they work hand in hand and compliment each other. When drawing with this tailor shape square, the graphite lays down beautifully and then using a wet brush, you get darker wash (more like the wash from the tin graphite) than if you pick up graphite off the square itself with a wet brush.

Very very water soluble and Will last a very very long time!Few things I noticed.> Label color gradient is misleading. It makes it seem like it is capable of concentrating to a near black. This is not true. It goes to a deep sepia brown color but not black ever.> It also appears more red in the picture, making the actual color appear yellow by comparison.> The color changes colors from wet to dry. Wet it is a bit more yellow, which I didn't appreciate when first using, but dried to a more true sepia shade.Other than these things, it makes a good general value paint, and mixes with watercolor well. It dullens bright colors readily into really nice muted shades.

Artgraf Graphite Disc is a multipurpose item. Use it dry to draw on paper, canvas, wood, etc., use it to draw on wet surfaces, dampen it to create bold lines, or use it as watercolor with a wet brush. I've used Graphite Disc in each of these ways. I especially like it for quick sketches with a wet brush and I've added to my oil and cold wax paintings.

I use this with my watercolors when I need a high lite on an object in one of my paintings. Normal the whites in my paintings are the color of the paper, but every once in a while I will need to scale a high light and that is where Art Graf white comes in.

It is very nice when dry but the color really pops when wet, so stunning and vivid. They mix well when wet but I have to play with them to get the color I want.Update 01/17: I received magenta today. Such a beautiful color, even more so when wet.

This white is a challenge but fun to use—quite a treat for a bored artist looking for some play time. Watch some of the YouTube videos where people are using the black. It’s just plain fun. Try this white on black Legion Stonehenge watercolor paper. Fun fun fun! All of these art graph colored graphite Taylor shaped squares are overpriced in my opinion but man are they fun.

Nice product but sipping was terrible.It came broken into pieces and made dirty my other product that was same box.