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  2. Hand-colouring of photographs - Wikipedia

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    Hand-colouring is also known as hand painting or overpainting. Typically, watercolours, oils, crayons or pastels, and other paints or dyes are applied to the image surface using brushes, fingers, cotton swabs or airbrushes. Hand-coloured photographs were most popular in the mid- to late-19th century before the invention of colour photography ...

  3. History of Crayola crayons - Wikipedia

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    A Crayola ad from 1905. After several decades producing commercial pigments, Binney & Smith produced their first crayon, the black Staonal Marking Crayon, in 1902. The following year, the company decided to enter the consumer market with its first drawing crayons. The name Crayola was suggested by Alice Binney, wife of company founder Edwin ...

  4. List of Crayola crayon colors - Wikipedia

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    All 16 Crayola Heads 'n Tails crayon colors. The eight Heads 'n Tails Crayons are double-sided and encased in plastic tubes that function much like the ones on Crayola Twistables. Each crayon has two shades of color, for a total of 16 colors, which are approximated by the background colors and hex RGB values below.

  5. Trois crayons - Wikipedia

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    Trois crayons ( French: [tʁwɑ kʁɛjɔ̃]; English: "three pencils") is a drawing technique using three colors of chalk: red ( sanguine ), black (a type of schist ), and white. The paper used may be a mid-tone such as grey, blue, or tan. [ 1] Among numerous others, French painters Antoine Watteau and François Boucher drew studies of figures ...

  6. Coloring book - Wikipedia

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    Coloring book. A coloring book (British English: colouring-in book, colouring book, or colouring page) is a type of book containing line art to which people are intended to add color using crayons, colored pencils, marker pens, paint or other artistic media. Traditional coloring books and coloring pages are printed on paper or card.

  7. Crayola - Wikipedia

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    Crayola LLC, formerly the Binney & Smith Company, is an American manufacturing and retail company specializing in art supplies. It is known for its brand Crayola and best known for its crayons. The company is headquartered in Forks Township, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of the state. Since 1984, Crayola has been a wholly owned ...

  8. Conté - Wikipedia

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    Conté crayons are most commonly found in black, white, and sanguine tones, as well as bistre, shades of grey, and other colors. Colors sets are especially useful for field studies and color studies. Some artists create entire paintings with them, using them more like pastels than like a drawing medium.

  9. Harold and the Purple Crayon - Wikipedia

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    MLCS 2006/43120 (P) Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 1955 children's picture book written and illustrated by Crockett Johnson. Published by HarperCollins Publishers, it is Johnson's most popular book, and has led to a series of other related books, as well as many adaptations. The story is written in third-person point-of-view, and follows a ...