Powdered Graphite

The cup of "tar" in front is a mix of graphite and matte medium; the graphite very slowly dissolved into the medium and the next day was a pudding like mixture that painted on beautifully!

To the left, I have mixed matte medium, graphite and a little water to "paint" on the grey lines, then applied PG over the top. To the right, I painted on straight matte medium, and brushed on PG, it made much darker lines! The white lines and spaces are a result of using an electric eraser over the surface.

The light spaces on the left are a result of not completely covering the test space! I love it, almost acts like a wax resist.

Dry brush application of graphite and matte medium mixed before application.  The darker right corner is PG brushed on top of the dried medium. This has plenty of textural possibilities that a pencil is less likely to produce.

Different quantities of PG added to the matte medium; the bottom square has PG burnished on top of the dried medium.

This is a combination of dry brushed clean matte medium, rubbed on PG, worked back into the surface with "B" pencil and graphite removed with electric eraser.

The flat black was achieved by painting the leaf shape with clean matte medium; PG was rubbed over the surface; kneaded eraser was used to produce some highlights. You can see a spot where I used an electric eraser and it "bunched" up the matte medium on the Bristol paper - one of the pitfalls. I used a pencil only for the top leaf and, though it doesn't show up here, I used an F pencil to put some of the veining onto the dark leaf. I like the textural contrast between the two graphite applications.