General’s Primo Euro Blend Charcoal Pencils are hand made in small batches with rich organic blacks to ensure that they offer the most intense drawing tones and values. The charcoal blend in these pencils is smoother, darker, creamier and softer than even “The Original” Charcoal Pencils. They can be used alone or with other charcoal, pastel or mixed media. handcrafted with the highest quality cedar wood to ensure smooth sharpening. Primo pencils can also be used for quick layouts in oil painting.

Primo Elite Grande Pencil is a large size hexagonal Carbon pencil which is handmade by General Pencil Company in small batches with rich, organic blacks to achieve intense drawing tones and values. The pencil is a combination of Euro Blend Charcoal (which is a creamy, rich, premium charcoal drawing formula that can be used alone, or in combination with other charcoal, graphite, pastels, or mixed media) and Graphite of the Kimberly Premium quality.

It lays down smooth, strong, jet-black lines for sketching, drawing, or layout. Perfect when used alone, it can also be combined with charcoal or graphite for a variety of effects.

The larger core of the Primo Elite Grande Pencil allows you to create broader strokes with the smoothness of graphite and the deep rich blacks of charcoal.