Caran dAche Museum Aquarelle Pencil Sets Landscape Set of 20 Colours (3510.420)

I have tried so many different types of colored pencils and these as the best! You might as well buy the whole set because it is more economical and you will want more once you try the other ones!!!! I did not get the wooden box just the 76. The colors turn so amazing when you add water to them.

These are lovely and very saturated.

Rich colors that dissolve completely with water. A little bit goes a long way! They are a bit more opaque when compared to Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer but sometimes that is a good thing. These are great for portable watercolor or paired with other watercolor pencils / brands.

I bought these for a workshop where we were using watercolor pencils rather than paints. I loved working with these pencils. There is so much pigment. I cant compare them to other brands but I love these pencils.

I am not in love with these but they are much better than the Caran dAche Supracolor watercolor pencils in terms of the quality of the pigment, and the lightfast ratings, however, dont expect these to work like traditional water color paint. Some people say they are opaque - that is because there is a lot of wax content in the cores, so they do leave behind a very soft, matte finish. You do have to work with them very carefully (the lightest pressure possible and I mean very very light pressure) otherwise they WILL LEAVE PENCIL MARKS on your paper that you WONT BE ABLE TO LIFT OUT. You will also end up with a very thick build up of wax that acts like a resist if you apply too much pressure. Just keep that in mind. After doing a lot of testing with the 12 set I found that they look particularly beautiful when you use them for the first few layers of color and then working over those layers very lightly with the Luminance for a soft, transparent layering of colors. If you only use these, it will look very opaque. You can buy a Caran dAche pencil palette (small white plastic board with texture on one side) to mix the colors before activating with water and painting with a brush which is helpful when working with a limited number of colors.

Love this, so soft and rich.

I love to draw but the coloring part is not my thing. I was introduced to these pencils by an Art teacher and they have really changed adding color to my drawings. I particularly love adding a colored pencil affect after a layer of watercolor pencil (I hope that makes sense). I also like how I can use these to put color in very small areas. Play around with these and have fun.

I have a bit of a watercolor pencil problem perhaps. But of all the watercolor pencils that I have tried, these are easily the best for sketching. Theyre darn near buttery, going onto the paper so readily and so colorfully. Theyre maybe not the best choice if you want to do a carefully rendered drawing that you will then just get wet (a more than valid choice), but they are so much fun for working loosely with swathes of water and color.

These are beautiful pencils, just know that if you have the set of 40 and buy this you will have 15 duplicate colors. It could be more cost effective to just get the few that you don’t have. Unless you know you’re going to use them up :).

Eh. Theyre good watercolor pencils. Lay down nice and dissolve well. But no better than Faber Castell or Derwent. Just more expensive.