Short Introduction
The basic paint boxes
Mini , Scola , Rondo , Pocket , Liliput , felt roll bag and basic wooden painting box each contain 8 color sticks, a rubbing tool and a cleaning brush.
Images, text and much more can be designed with these utensils and your own fingers.
The color sticks
consist of bound mineral pigment. The Seccorell powder is obtained from them with the help of the grating block. Seccorell is economical, lightfast and harmless to health.
NOTE: Seccorell is also available in other sizes and designs, such as a large metal box and a large wooden box in 24 different colours.
At the rub block
the pigment is rubbed off over the painting ground in the desired amount. Each side of the rubbing block remains dedicated to a specific shade.
TIP: Before the first use, you can mark the four sides on the wooden edges in color so as not to mix up the grating surfaces; this way, the powder and the colored areas that have already been designed remain pure and bright!
The brush
serves to brush off the pigment still adhering to the rubbing block immediately after rubbing the color stick.
This process is important, because otherwise the pigment could later fall off in an unwanted place and change the picture if it is gently shaken.
IMPORTANT : The brush is only a cleaning tool and NOT a painting brush!
With your fingers
or the heel of the hand, the pigment is worked into the painting surface in fine circular or wiping movements. Smearing or dabbing with a cotton pad, handkerchief or similar is also possible.
TIP : For "sky", for example, smudge the powder in a circular motion, for "meadow" perhaps in an up and down motion and so on - this way, characteristic structures are created while painting.
With the primary colors
Red, yellow and blue, many mixed tones can be generated: eg all rainbow colors (Goethe's color circle) as well as brown and gray. (Green is included with the Seccorell basic painting boxes for finer nuances.)
NOTE: A color mixing chart (DIN A 5) is available from us.
The mixing
The colors are applied directly to the painting surface, either in the sense of a layering technique (i.e. layer of color on top of layer of color so that the layer underneath can shine through) or already in the powder stage to create new color nuances.
Tip : Here the image was built up from light to dark. When layering, each color should be worked in well so that the shapes don't blur each other.
The result
are watercolor/pastel-like works. The intensity can be varied from the most delicate touch of color to full tone - also depending on the structure of the painting surface. It is possible to continue painting at a later point in time if the pigment has not already been polished in to give it a glossy finish (the painting surface is then saturated).
TIP: The lighting effects were erased and the dwarf placed in the picture using a self-cut stencil
For contours
the color sticks can be used like pencils. As shown in the picture, an eraser, or even better an eraser lead holder, can be used to great effect.
TIP: magic pictures! Draw or write with a little force on a piece of light-colored paper with a white pencil, then paint over it with Seccorell; also works by pre-engraving with an object (e.g. knitting needle or closed ballpoint pen).
other techniques
can be wonderfully combined with Seccorell! (Here a colored pencil picture was “colored” with Seccorell.)
TIP: Example of a very beautiful and at the same time easy to achieve effect: paint a sunset or sunrise with Seccorell, work it in well and smudge-proof and finally draw a skyline or nature (grasses, flowers, trees) into the picture...!
Completely without fixing spray
The Seccorell technique gets by: By massaging in the individual colored areas, the picture becomes smudge-proof like a colored pencil picture. (Check with a clean finger!)
TIP: Polishing with a cotton pad or similar gives Seccorell pictures an even more elegant shine and even greater smudge resistance (however, this does not replace the previous working in with your fingers)!
To the drawing paper
no special claim is made. However, it must not be smooth like varnish. The colored areas tend to be smooth and shiny on fine-pored papers, and very intense but matt on coarse ones.
Rule of thumb : Any paper that can be colored with colored pencils can be designed with Seccorell. The only exception known to us so far is kite or very smooth transparent paper.
other materials
are also well suited for the Seccorell technique: sanded, untreated wood, plaster, eggs (rubbed beforehand with vinegar essence), clay, stone, shells, canvas, light-colored feathers,...
TIP: Stones should have a relatively fine surface structure so that the color is shiny and velvety soft. Pebbles are very suitable.
The tool cleaning
is easy: the rubbing block is anyway cleaned with the brush after each color abrasion, the fingers with water and soap or damp cosmetic tissues (drugstore).
TIP: It is advisable to place a piece of paper (e.g. newspaper) on the work surface before starting work.