If they are what you are looking for, my advice would be to purchase the largest set you can afford. Using the same paper as previously, I was a bit less gung-ho – took more time and gave the process more thought. 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. Its delicate texture, along with the vibrancy of the many recently developed shades, open up exciting new vistas in the realms of overlaying, mixed techniques and gradation. Its extreme lightfastness is confirmed by the most rigourous tests, earning Luminance 6901 top results.

These new artistic colours, complementary to the existing colour chart, broaden the field of use and application of these exceptional lightfast colour pencils. But it’s a perfectly good look if you do like it – if you enjoy ‘polishing’ your drawings, they work well. p>

Caran d’Ache wins the innovation prize 2010 of the SMAC (Fair of the creative professions and activities) with its Luminance 6901 colour pencil. Caran D'Ache Luminance Colour Pencil Sets feature top of the range permanent lead for artists and creative professionals.

diameter, in a range of balanced colours with high pigment concentration, is recommended for mixing and shading, working blends or for shading and rubbing with the white pencil. This is a much heavier approach again and is based on someone else’s very old painting of the River Yar, with the Downs behind.

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Lightfastness in compliance with the highest international standard: ASTM D-6901

Wide range of colours developed with a large variety of highly concentrated pigments. Luminance 6901 complies with the ASTM D-6901 standard, the highest international standard concerning coloured pencils' light fastness. p>Caran d’Ache Luminance coloured pencils are the most lightfast of all coloured pencils meeting the highest of international standards: ASTM D-6901.

Caran d’Ache wins the innovation prize 2010 of the SMAC (Fair of the creative professions and activities) with its Luminance 6901 colour pencil. If I were to continue using coloured pencils, and especially these, this is the technique I would use. As always, with any make of coloured pencil, I find some of the names given to the colours a little weird; why specify anthraquinoid pink, or perylene brown, and then label your greens ‘grass green’ or ‘spring green’? Beautifully presented in an attractive box, it would make the perfect gift for any creative with high quality demands. 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.With Luminance 6901, Caran d’Ache has achieved the feat of creating quite simply the most lightfast colour pencil ever designed. Since its beginnings at the dawn of the 20th century, Caran d’Ache was the one and only manufacturer of writing and drawing instruments on Swiss soil, it has been part of this same lineage of excellence, technical quality and craftsmanship.

All in all, there is very little, if anything wrong with these pencils, I love my Caran Dache Luminance Color Pencils. I’d like to try them on watercolour paper, both rough and hot-pressed (especially on the latter) on their own or in conjunction with watercolour, ink, even gouache and acrylic. com/products_images/prod_11152/d_boite-20-couleurs-luminance-6901-assortiment-portrait-caran-d-ache-onroll-0. The creaminess of a permanent lead combined with unbeatable light resistance : excellence for the most demanding artists, designers, architects, artistic directors, etc.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.