What is Seccorell
Emergence and 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 dirty "painting materials" they had to buy.
When trying to achieve surfaces, backgrounds and layering by drawing with colored pencils, the results were very often unsatisfactory 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...!
What is special about Seccorell
Seccorell is a finger-wipe painting technique that forms a bridge between the watercolor and pastel techniques and requires neither water nor fixative.
Practical for in between
Seccorell can also be used where watercolors and pastels are out of the question for technical reasons. Seccorell paints are harmless to health.
For young and old
Whether large areas of color, figurative motifs or painted objects: as the results are always effective, no one can go "wrong".
Completely different than before
What is new and specific about this finger wipe painting technique is that you can produce the color powder yourself, even in very small quantities, according to your wishes and requirements.
Design diversity for all
We are delighted with all the positive feedback, especially from children, parents, teachers and therapists. They show us that with Seccorell we have been able to provide a solution for many design issues.
The Seccorell technique. This is how it works:
1. Rub the paint sticks directly over the painting surface on the rubbing block;
2. Brush out any paint powder residue with the brush;
3. Smudge with your fingers and work in well;
4. For high smudge resistance, additionally polish with a cotton pad or similar: the very delicate to intense color areas become smudge-resistant like crayon paintings!