CARAN D'ACHE Cardboard Box with 76 Assorted Colours +2 blenders

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Beautifully presented in an attractive box, it would make the perfect gift for any creative with high quality demands.

These are however just quibbles – any trial set will offer a representative sample of the colours available; there are many more offered by Caran d’Ache (the full range is 100 colours) and a medium is available to use with them, which they say enhances the colours, and makes them more readily blend-able. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. With Luminance 6901, Caran d’Ache has achieved the feat of creating quite simply the most lightfast colour pencil ever designed. Using the same paper as previously, I was a bit less gung-ho – took more time and gave the process more thought. These exceptionally vibrant range of coloured pencils comply with the highest international standard of lightfastness ASTM D6901, which means artworks created with the Luminance 6901 pencils will exhibit no appreciable colour change after being exposed to the appropriate equivalence of 100 years of indoor museum lighting.Just incase you are unfamiliar with the term Lightfast, this simply refers to how long the pigment in the coloured pencil, when applied to surface, stays bright a vibrant as opposed to fading and tarnishing. If I were to continue using coloured pencils, and especially these, this is the technique I would use. However, it was a good test – the colour is strong, easily darkened, but I should have reserved some lighter parts; I tried a touch of putty rubber, but soon abandoned it – it works well on darker colours, but not so well with the mid-tones, especially the greens: tends to smear them.

The range of colours supplied in this set – I did not attempt to supplement it with other brands – would be good for portraiture (better, if there were a yellow ochre included) and are adequate for landscape work. Although I’ve been painting in oil, acrylic and watercolour for some 50 years, I rarely use coloured pencils. Unleash your creativity with Caran d'Ache pencils, the pinnacle of Swiss precision in coloured pencils.

com/products_images/prod_11257/d_boite-100-couleurs-luminance-6901-2-blender-caran-d-ache-detail8-0. Luminance 6901 complies with the ASTM D-6901 standard, the highest international standard concerning coloured pencils' light fastness.