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

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The selection of colour is subjective and the reviewer has chosen colour by looking at the physical coloured pencil swatches.

Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901 Free 100 Color Swatch Chart Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901 Free 100 Color Swatch Chart

Previously I used the Karisma pencils, which I loved, and found it difficult to replace them for many years, as the company discontinued the range back in 2001.

To qualify for ASTM D-6901, the Luminance pencils were tested for three months in the Arizona desert as well as 400 hours under intense UV lights in an independent lab in Florida. With other wax based pencils, the beauty of them is the soft core, but with the luminance you get that soft application without having to resharpen the core after every few strokes. As I layer extensively in my work, wax based pencils are more suited and the Luminance pencils are highly pigmented, lightfast and layer well. 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.

Caran d’Ache Luminance – Interactive Colour Chart 100 Caran d’Ache Luminance – Interactive Colour Chart

With 192 Color Schemes and several colors wheels and swatching charts, picking Luminance colors has never been so easy!If you sell a beautiful piece to someone and after six months or so that beautiful work of art that you spent long hours on starts to fade and tarnish, it will not be long before word has spread.