Caran d'Ache Museum Watercolour Pencils (Pack of 40)

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Water-soluble pencils are a fun and dynamic way to create unique effects in your artwork using a single medium. Caran D’Ache’s offering in this product space is the Museum Aquarelle Watercolour Pencils. While not an entry-level product based on price alone, the company’s products are known to be worth every penny. I have long been a diehard fan of the Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer Watercolour Pencils but these pencils have intrigued me for a long time. Could these pencils possibly dethrone my long time favourites? Read on… To introduce texture to the muddy ploughed strip, I scribbled directly on to the paper and then added water with a wet brush. WAX BASED | 4mm Colour Strip | Round Barrel | 100 Colours (including 1 non water soluble outliner) | Firm Texture

Highly resistant to light : the Museum Aquarelle pencils are light-resistant, guaranteeing the durability of your watercolor works of art. Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer Watercolour Pencils have a generous colour strip and a good weight in the hand. They’re professional grade, with the majority of colours ranked highly for lightfastness, so they’re an ideal choice for any artist keen on displaying their artwork or taking commissions. You can use these pencils dry, however you’ll find that they have a slightly drier texture than a traditional pencil. Their beauty really shines with the addition of water. It’s remarkably easy to lift the pencil marks, leaving you with nothing but vibrant, pure watercolour paint. Their soft texture also means you can easily blend colours and they have excellent coverage. These pencils have a colour matched, varnished barrel that has all the colour information stamped on for easy identification.Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle Watercolour Pencils are available indivdually and in sets. Supracolor Mary Herbert tries out Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle Pencils and finds that they are a ‘serious medium, made for serious artists’ Top features The collection of 12 came in a beautiful square box with foam top and bottom and grooved to hold the pencils. The pencils themselves are gorgeous. Used with water the colours can be startlingly intense, which took a little getting used to. I found I was applying too much pencil; just a small amount allows a more subtle watercolour wash effect. Reserve heavier applications for an inky look.

As with ordinary coloured pencils, you can use them to scribble, blend, hatch, lay down flat unbroken colour, or work with linear marks, in as expressive or controlled way as you please. Individual colours are not given a lighfastness rating as they are part of the company’s hobby range, however Faber-Castell say the whole range has excellent lightfastness. Pencil: hexagonal shape, 8 plys, top-quality cedar wood, easy sharpening, matt colour cap matches the lead colour, identification number A little colour went a long way, and without the fragments I’d been expecting; the pigments dissolved completely into the water. It occurred to me this would be a handy way to take colours travelling or hiking with minimum weight. A wide range of colors: the Museum Aquarelle range offers a choice of selections from 12 to 76 colors.Goldfaber Aqua are part of Faber-Castell’s hobby range. Because they’re part of the hobby range, there isn’t any specific information given about the exact lightfastness of these pencils – however, it’s generally considered to be good. With this in mind, these pencils would be suitable for beginners, hobbyists or artists who don’t make work for display. These pencils are very economical, making them a great entry level tool for beginners looking to try out watercolour pencils. These pencils have a colour matched tip, however there aren’t any colour names or codes printed on the barrel so this strip is the only means of identification. Caran d’Ache have aimed this product at the professional user, and the reasoning behind that isn’t mere marketing hype.

You can also combine watercolour and traditional pencils into a single drawing. Just make sure you use water soluble colour in your initial layers, otherwise the traditional colour pencil will act like a resist! Caran D’Ache have recently released new coloured pencils – Museum Aquarelle. They come in 76 colours though only the full range is available in singles. Currently, the collections available are 12 Basics, 20 Marine and 20 Landscape. For Frank the Suffolk punch and his handler Pete I made a palette as described, and applied a couple of layers of colour with a brush. Once it was dry, I noticed the colour was permanent and didn’t break into subsequent wash layers in the same way that traditional watercolour would. This allowed for some wonderful glazing effects, deepening the colour and tone of the artwork. This post will help you save your time and energy. It will show you what colour family colours and neutral colours are included in the Museum aquarelle watercolour pencil range. Use this post together with our post on colour harmonies to help you choose the colours of your next artwork.

HOW TO USE THE PENCILS IN THE MUSEUM AQUARELLE RANGE

If you’ve made your own charts – that’s great. But – as is practical, you might also have your charts in one physical place while you draw in another. You need to have access to the colours where you are – hopefully you’ll be there with internet access and your mobile device. Of the 76 set of coloured pencils, 1 pencil has the lowest lightfast rating of **, 4 coloured pencils have a lightfast rating of ***, 10 have a lightfast rating of ****, and 61 have the highest lightfast rating of *****. Only have a few pencils? While the majority of my layers were wet and paintbrush applied, I also used the dry form of the pencils to add in finer details and create sharper edges. You don’t have to use the product this was but I like to use a combination of both because I like the way it looks. The pencils sharpened well enough to a point to allow me to add in fine details. Working down the long side, I reached the other end of an A4 sheet with colour still drawing out, far exceeding my expectations. A range that materialises artistic innovation: the innovative Museum Aquarelle range allows artists to explore in new ways watercolor in pencil form.

Derwent Inktense are one of Derwent’s best-selling pencil ranges. They dry to a permanent finish, meaning you can layer up vibrant, translucent colours without disturbing the colour beneath. Inktense don’t limit you to using only paper – try them out on card and fabric to achieve the same permanent colour. They’re suitable for all kinds of craft and fine art projects. They offer much more intense colour than the rest of Derwent’s water soluble pencil range. Inktense pencils feature Derwent’s signature colour flash at the end and include both the colour name and indentification number stamped on the barrel. No specific lightfastness or pigment information is given on the pencil. Museum Aquarelle pencils have been made with the best selection of pigments, including a large number of mono-pigments (pure, unblended colour from source) and highest quality translucent mineral filler.Watercolour Pencils are made similarly to a standard colouring pencil. They have the same wooden barrels that encase a coloured lead. Each lead is made from the same kinds of ingredients as a coloured pencil, but with the added benefit of a water-soluble binder. This binder allows you to use watercolour pencils either wet or dry. Use them dry and you’ll be able to apply and blend colour like a traditional pencil. However, their beauty really comes out when you combine them with water. Use a wet brush, mist with a spritzer or spray bottle, or draw directly onto wet paper to create all kinds of interesting marks. Wanting to see how they work as pure watercolour on a brush, I made a ‘palette’ by scribbling a heavily applied square of each colour on to a piece of rough plastic, and touching them with a wet brush. It was just like using a set of watercolour pans. A range of Swiss made pencils: the Museum Aquarelle pencils are made in our Caran d'Ache workshop in Switzerland, in partnership with watercolor artists. For your knowledge, it’s advisable to draw up your own colour chart so you can get to know the actual colours of your coloured pencils. You will then see how your pencil perfoms on the papers that you use for your drawings. For the purposes of this review, I’m also including the Pallette Aquarelle also by Caran D’Ache. This product is a perfect pairing because it’s specially designed with a textured side that works well for applying dry pencil and adding water with a paintbrush to liquify it. I’ll be giving my thoughts on this product as well at the end of the review.