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What is a tortillon?

What is a tortillon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An artist’s tool used to smudge and blend a drawing made from charcoal, pencil, or pastel, consisting of a tightly-wound stick of soft, fibrous paper, and sanded to a point at one end like a pencil.
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Do this softly by smudging with a bit of soft graphite on your finger or a tortillon.
Because the tortillon has a pointy tip it is great to work with.
As you use your tortillon more and more, it'll get dirty.
Put some white spirit on the tip of the tortillon and rub out the pencil lines towards the middle of the image.
Push a slim knitting needle or a fat wire into the open part of the tortillon so it takes the shape of a pencil.
With these nostalgic Christmas motifs you can make great cards. If you then also use the ultra fine glitter or watercolour pencils, a tortillon and odourless white spirit, you can make the images look even better.

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