Origin

The attempt to fill a gap

Many years of observations of school classes and my own children have shown that the color pigment shavings from the tips of the colored pencils were often used by spreading them with the fingers and with paper handkerchiefs on the notebook pages or on loose sheets of paper. This resulted in relatively contourless and seamless color patterns and clouds that looked like watercolors at first glance. In some cases, the valuable pencils were quickly completely reworked in this way.

The results were always satisfying and stimulating for the pupils, but many parents and teachers were reluctant to tolerate them because of the expensive and messy "painting materials" involved.

Attempts to achieve surfaces, backgrounds and layering by drawing with colored pencils very often produced unsatisfactory results for the pupils, as the relative hardness of the leads often left unwanted, darker lines on the painting surface.

We searched - for a long time in our heads and then years later in the workshop - for a way to offer the color pigments in dry, solid form for easy and safe transportation (e.g. in a school bag) as well as for a suitable method of preparing the painting medium: it should only be possible to produce the quantities really needed in a ready-to-paint consistency.

At some point, the whole thing became a family project. Everyone had something to contribute.
In 2007, we finally had the box as you know it today, or will come to know it...

...And the fact that not only surfaces, backgrounds and layering can be painted with its help, but also "real" pictures, surprised us all as well as many people who have come to know and enjoy Seccorell in the meantime...!