Application : a creamy, generous lead in a range of balanced colours with high pigment concentration.

com/products_images/prod_11152/d_boite-20-couleurs-luminance-6901-assortiment-portrait-caran-d-ache-detail2-0. Although I’ve been painting in oil, acrylic and watercolour for some 50 years, I rarely use coloured pencils. Carefully selected by leading pastel artists, these PASTEL PENCILS assortments are intended for both beginners and experienced amateur or professional artists, for preliminary work and detailed finishing of a huge variety of subjects. 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. Over time, colour fades and tarnishes to a yellow colour, however, if the pigment you are using has been treated for lightfastness, this is not going to happen for many years, which is one of the reasons the Caran Dache Luminance pencils are that little bit more expensive.Luminance 6901™ colour pencils combine exceptional lightfastness with the smoothness of a permanent lead. Beautifully presented in an attractive box, it would make the perfect gift for any creative with high quality demands. Drawing Number Six is a beach scene featuring heavy use of the pencils, Rotring ink and white gel pen. com/products_images/prod_11152/d_boite-20-couleurs-luminance-6901-assortiment-portrait-caran-d-ache-front-0.

p>Caran d’Ache Luminance coloured pencils are the most lightfast of all coloured pencils meeting the highest of international standards: ASTM D-6901. In the Luminance line, the sets available are 20, 40, 76 and 80, however the 80 set as mentioned above is the gift box set and some of the colours are duplicate. Caran D'Ache Luminance Colour Pencil Sets feature top of the range permanent lead for artists and creative professionals. The creaminess of a permanent lead combined with unbeatable light resistance : excellence for the most demanding artists, designers, architects, artistic directors, etc.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. Combine with SUPRACOLOR ® Soft Aquarelle for wash drawings and watercolour effects in mixed techniques, or PABLO ® pencils for details, hatching and to colour numerous media. p>

With solid leads and a wide range of colours created from highly concentrated pigments, they have been made for professional level work. com/products_images/prod_11257/d_boite-100-couleurs-luminance-6901-2-blender-caran-d-ache-detail7-0. This isn't a critisism of Luminanace though, there’s not a coloured pencil invented that would turn me into a devotee of a material which I find takes quite a lot of work and doesn’t flow in the way that paint and ink do.