An implement for drawing, made of clay and plumbago, or of some preparation of chalk, usually sold in small prisms or cylinders.
Combination of pigments and an oily or waxy binder. The term applied to both chalk and pastel in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but the modern crayon, with its greasy characteristic, was developed in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Recipes varied and included wax, tallow, white wax from the sperm whale, soap and shellac.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, crayon was used to describe both chalk and pastel drawings, but in the nineteenth century, what we now know as the modern form of the crayon, with its waxy, greasy texture, began to be developed. Black crayon was utilized by Jean-François Millet in A Man Ploughing and Another Sowing.
Colored pigments combined with oily, fatty, or waxy binding media and made into sticks.
writing implement consisting of a colored stick of composition wax used for writing and drawing
write, draw, or trace with a crayon
Short irregular crayon marks, (hard wax).
a small stick of coloured wax used for drawing or writing (= Ro. creion de ceara);
Commonly used as a general term for children's wax-based drawing sticks, technically it is any drawing material that can be produced into stick form. (2)
A generic term for drawing stick. Usually made of a ground pigment in an oil, gum or wax medium.
A drawing medium or material in stick form, including pastels, charcoal and chalk.