Crayon

Description

A general name for a stick of colored chalk, charcoal, grease, or wax used for drawing.

See also charcoal crayon, Conté crayon, pastel, wax crayon, grease pencil, colored pencil, and lithographic crayon.

Additional Information

M.Holben Ellis, M.Brigitte Yeh,"Categories of Wax-based Drawing Media" WAAC Newsletter, Vol 19(3), 1997.

Comparisons

Websites of pastel, pencil, and marker manufacturers

Websites of pastel, pencil, and marker manufacturers

Additional Images

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  Rubens Crayola Artists' Crayon

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  Crayola crayons

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  Crayola crayon

Authority

• G.S.Brady, Materials Handbook, McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1971 Comment: p. 794

• Ralph Mayer, A Dictionary of Art Terms and Techniques, Harper and Row Publishers, New York, 1969 (also 1945 printing)

• A Glossary of Paper Conservation Terms, Margaret Ellis (ed.), Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York City, 1998

• The Dictionary of Art, Grove's Dictionaries Inc., New York, 1996 Comment: "Crayon"