crayon
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It features 26 paintings, oil sketches and drawings, these last done in Conté crayon, a medium made from powdered graphite and carbon black that allowed deeper blacks and more expressive tonal contrasts.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026
“I’m struck by that in a way the crayon or marker drawing is provisional — there’s no final form to it.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2026
As freshmen, the teenagers started a political crayon company to encourage voter turnout.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026
The future Queen Elizabeth I was 12 years old at the time — long past the age in which a ghastly crayon drawing of dad would suffice.
From Salon • Dec. 23, 2024
The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.
From "Their Eyes Were Watching God" by Zora Neale Hurston
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
