Anthracite Charcoal is the color you use when you want the painting to stop being cute.
It’s a deep, velvety charcoal with that slightly smoky, mineral feel, like someone rubbed a piece of night across your paper and it just… stayed there. It gives instant structure, instant mood, and the kind of contrast that makes every other color behave better.
Use it for shadows, outlines, stormy skies, old stone, city grit, dramatic botanicals, or just to shut down a painting that’s getting too polite. In a light wash it turns into a soft graphite haze. In a thick mix it becomes full-on “yes, I meant that.”
