Everything about Crayons totally explained
A
crayon is a stick of colored
wax,
charcoal,
chalk, or other materials used for writing and
drawing. A crayon made of
oiled chalk is called an
oil pastel; when made of
pigment with a dry binder, it's simply a
pastel. A
grease pencil or
china marker (UK
chinagraph pencil) is made of colored hardened
grease and is useful for marking on hard,
glossy surfaces such as
porcelain or
glass.
Wax crayons are commonly used for drawing and coloring by children. Crayons are a staple at most schools worldwide. They are easy to work with, not messy (as are paint and markers), blunt (removing the risk of sharp points present when using a pencil or pen), non-toxic, and are available in a wide variety of colors.
History
Europe was the birthplace of the “modern” crayon, a man-made cylinder that resembled contemporary sticks. The first such crayons are purported to have consisted of a mixture of charcoal and oil. Through time, powdered pigments of various hues replaced the charcoal. It was subsequently discovered that substituting wax for the oil in the mixture made the resulting sticks sturdier and easier to handle.
The world's largest manufacturer and inventor of wax crayons is
Crayola LLC (formerly Binney & Smith Inc.), the manufacturer of
Crayola crayons, which are made of
paraffin wax, a petroleum product.
Soybean oil can also be used to make crayons, although this isn't as common. The brand's first box of eight Crayola crayons made its debut in 1903. The crayons were sold for a nickel and the colors were: black, brown, blue, red, purple, orange, yellow, and green. The word Crayola was created by Alice Stead Binney, wife of Edwin Binney, who took the French words for chalk,
craie, and oily,
oléagineux, and combined them.
Art
Some fine arts companies such as Swiss
Caran d'Ache manufacture water-soluble crayons. With or without water, once applied to media the crayons' colors are easily mixed.
Jean-François Millet is an example of one artist who used conté crayon in his work.
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