Price: $48.23
(as of Nov 18, 2024 12:09:09 UTC - Details)

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Creamy - soft - water-resistant
Set of 18 Colored Pencils
Ideal for shading - mixied media
Exceptional covering power and superb lightfastness
3.7mm leads
Reviewer: Alfredo D'Agostino
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A favorite brand of mine
Review: I recommend these for pros and beginners alike.I recommend them for beginners because I don't believe beginners need waste time with sub-par materials.Pros like them because they are well-made and the colors are vibrant. The leads are reasonably soft, yet can be sharpened to a fine point. The woods are six-sided so that the pencils do not roll.Please note that these particular Caran d'Ache pencils are not water soluble, so using them to create washes of color is not an option.

Reviewer: Ava Jarvis, Nhà Họa (Artist)
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Very transparent, high quality colored pencils
Review: While the Luminance line is still the best colored pencil line in terms of opacity and coverage, it's also expensive. The Pablo line fits my needs more, and not just because it's less expensive than Luminance while delivering quality as well. Pablo colored pencils are transparent, so when layering colors you'll still get most of the influence of the bottom-most layers.Colored pencils can indeed be blended to produce more variety, so an 18-pencil pack is more than enough if you're willing to learn color theory, especially with pencils that layer as well as Pablo. You're also rewarded with more interest color textures than if you'd use a single pencil of just the right color.I actually still do recommend this 18-pencil pack over the 12-pencil pack because the 18-pack contains a cyan-magenta-yellow triplet that can be used to create most other colors: Carmine, Cobalt Blue, and Lemon Yellow. This is actually better than the Luminance 20-pencil set as that set doesn't include a workable triplet of this nature (you have to add the Luminance purplish-red pencil separately, and Luminance is especially not cheap as single pencils).Additionally, you can create a secondary-primary palette with the CMY triplet above plus Grass Green, Orange, and Violet, and more easily obtain fascinating neutral colors (browns and grays). I've attached a couple small color mixing charts plus a few works done in Pablo.The transparent nature of Pablo pencils also means they can be easily combined on top of watercolors for finer details: the last picture shows simple feather detail done with Pablo's Ultramarine on a blue jay watercolor painting I made.I love Luminance, but Pablo works better for me; even if it isn't the Jaguar of colored pencils, it's still extremely good.

Reviewer: shana powell
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great value, highly recommended
Review: The value for the money is great. These are the best colored pencils I've ever used. They are so smooth and they layer easily. They don't need a heavy hand to lay down a good amount of color, unlike others I've used. They set really nice as well. Great pencils, I'll be buying more

Reviewer: Avid Shopper
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A pleasure to use.
Review: This is my first set of oil based color pencils. (My other set is wax based.) These were smooth and blended well. I worked on cold press watercolor paper, having grabbed what was handy, so the work seems 'rough'. I expect smoother paper will give a better result. The leads seem strong and the pencils sharpen easily. The set includes warm and cool reds, blues, yellows and greens, along with an orange, purple, violet, burnt sienna, umber, black, gray and white. I expect I'll add colors from open stock. The lightfast ratings are all 2s and 3s. No regrets.

Reviewer: JOSEFINA ROBBINS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: highly recommended
Review: after trying several different brands, these are the best, worth every penny

Reviewer: Edna
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great product
Review: I love the vibrate colors and the smoothness in blending when water is applied. Great penciled for beginners or advanced artists.

Reviewer: Leslie Thomas
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Rich color, quality pencil set
Review: Good quality thick soft deep color pencils. I bought this set for coloring when I’m on the go so I can pack this in my backpack with a coloring book. I’m very pleased with the rich color of the pencils and it’s a good size set for the price.

Reviewer: LauraReview
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: My favorite!!!
Review: Hands down my ultimate favorite color pencil brand. Yes even better than my [gasp] Faber Castell Polychromos. I must admit it was a tough call but for me I just find that I tend to naturally go for this pencil more than the other brands I own (Prisma, Derwent, Faber Castell). I love that I could work on a project for hours and not have to sharpen the pencil. They are oil based and have great pigmentation and a better shine than my Faber Castell. This is also my go-to pencil for blending. They are just amazing! The casings are also not rounded so that they do not roll off your work surface as much. My only regret is not haven gotten the 120 set.

Reviewer: Joanne
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I like working with these pencils because they are smooth to use and the colours are very clear

Reviewer: Antonio
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Los compré para reponer algunos tonos, aprovechando la oferta, muy buenos, por poner alguna pega sería el precio elevado

Reviewer: Elisabetta
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Le matite sono meravigliose. Basta appoggiare la punta sul foglio e già scende il colore.. Come ha detto un altro acquirente : Non aspettatevi la cremosità dei Prismacolor.. No! Ma la resa è altrettanto fantastica! Più cremose sono le gemelline Supracolor Soft sempre della Caran d'Ache che sono acquerellabili ma rendono stupendamente anche a secco. Per quanto riguarda l'imballaggio ... Impeccabile! Io ho ricevuto la scatola in latta grigia non come quella della foto rossa.. Ma credo siano la stessa cosa, cambia solo il contenitore. Uso le matite colorate per i libri anti-stress ma preferisco acquistare matite buone .. C'è soddisfazione e il polso non fa male.. Spero di essere stata utile!

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: It was a birthday present for my daughter and she was very happy to receive them. Delivery was very good as well!!

Reviewer: earlybird
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I have no idea why 'sheerness' and 'thickness' are the only rateable qualities here. I give these pencils 5 stars on the basis of the following:Softness - I've seen Pablo pencils compared to Polychromos, but this is not correct IMO. I use Polys a lot and I love them, but the Pablo pencils are closer to Prismacolour Premier in terms of softness - but without the fragility. They sharpen well for me and the points are more robust than Prismas, although I do have a light hand. The Pablos go down so smooth and rich, they're beautiful to use.Opacity: 3 layers will pretty much cover the paper, effortlessly.Colours: They're beautiful. I could only stretch to the 18 set just now, but I will be asking for contributions towards the 120 set for Christmas.I also don't think they're overpriced, at least not compared to other pro quality pencils.