Nitram Liquid Charcoal 50ml

Experience charcoal artistry like never before, with this beautiful product from Nitram, the French Charcoal specialists.

Nitram Liquid Charcoal provides a unique way to work with charcoal. Liquid Charcoal is water soluble, so you can adjust the values from very light to a deep, rich black. This versatility opens up a broad spectrum of textures, giving artists a new way to work with sketch-like applications. Straight out of the tube it is as thick as oil paint, allowing you to draw with a brush or even use a palette knife to apply it.

Nitram Liquid Charcoal dries very quickly and has excellent lightfastness. It can be used wet or dry.

Sensitive and interactive; it is great for bold, expressive drawing as well as delicate studies.

It is easily manipulated and blended on the page, but it requires a fixative to stabilise it. It’s possible to achieve a wide range of tonal values with it.

Ingredients: Water, gum arabic, Nitram Powdered Charcoal, hydroxyethyl cellulose, talc, aminomethyl propanol, ethylparaben.

Features:

• Tube of Liquid Charcoal Paint 50ml

• Natural ingredients, water-based

• Lightfast level 1

• Use wet or dry

• Fast drying

• Thick, smooth consistency

• Made in Canada

About the Brand

Martin Gros was born in Spain in 1914 and moved to France just as WWII started in 1939.  Working on a local farm, he started making charcoal in the forests of L'yonne, France. He did this until 1962 when the new owner for a very old charcoal manufacturer (Luxor) hired him.

He worked there until 1965 when he decided to open his own factory. The new charcoal Company was called NITRAM, which is Martin spelled backwards.

To begin with, demand was small, and production was not very consistent. However, in 1968 an important client placed a large order that could not be met using current production methods and techniques. This required a new approach, quality wood and specialized equipment.

In 1981 Martin Gros retired, and his son came to continue manufacturing Nitram. With a larger property as well as new machinery helped assure a cleaner manufacturing process, while maintaining quality. Over the years the process has been further refined with newer and larger equipment.

The Nitram methodology and the spirit of Nitram Fussains has been passed on to Jerzy Niedojadlo, who as a practicing artist has shown a great passion for Nitram charcoal. Jerzy has what it takes to maintain the quality of Nitram Charcoal and continue to make it available to artists worldwide, and they also now have a manufacturing plant in Canada to service the Americas, and the pacific region.