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With solid leads and a wide range of colours created from highly concentrated pigments, they have been made for professional level work. With Luminance 6901, Caran d’Ache has achieved the feat of creating quite simply the most lightfast colour pencil ever designed. I found they worked well on all three papers, laying down colour which was vibrant from the start, and offered a creamy consistency: reminding me slightly of using oil pastels. In summary, Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901 Permanent Pencils are a high-grade product and, in the hands of professional coloured pencil artists, would be certain to improve their work. Just incase you are unfamiliar with the term Lightfast, this simply refers to how long the pigment in the coloured pencil, when applied to surface, stays bright a vibrant as opposed to fading and tarnishing.

Luminance 6901™ combines the best possible lightfastness with the smoothness of a permanent lead made with wax. 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 Luminance 6901 Pencils are top quality coloured pencils that have exceptionally high lightfastness and pigment levels. The light resistance of these pencils complies with the highest international standards for light resistance in coloured pencils, whilst the maximum covering power is ideal for superimposing and shading, with unlimited mixed media combinations.

When you ope the box the first thing to hit you is the wonderful smell, it is like walking through a beautiful woodland on a damp summers morning, after which the luscious display of colours simply ignite your creative juices. mm wax lead for clean and accurate lines which allows maximum covering power and high pigment concentration for intense, bright colours. In fact when I first purchased mine, I was so worried about using them, that it took almost a week to actually use them on a piece of art and even then I was handling them as if they had explosives attached to them. Although I’ve been painting in oil, acrylic and watercolour for some 50 years, I rarely use coloured pencils.

If they are what you are looking for, my advice would be to purchase the largest set you can afford. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.In accordance with the international ASTM D-6901 standard (which certifies the lightfastness of colours on a scale from LFI to LFV), Luminance 6901™ offers to the demands of the most exacting creative professionals the guarantee that their works will stand the test of time for up to 100 years. To test the pencils, I used them with ink on laid paper and on their own on two makes of 200gm paper, one somewhat rougher than the other. But after I got over my fear, I actually started to enjoy using these wonderful pencils, works of art in their own right. These new artistic colours, complementary to the existing colour chart, broaden the field of use and application of these exceptional lightfast colour pencils.

Plus, members can also enjoy a range of exciting features including monthly art videos and a digital magazine library. But it’s a perfectly good look if you do like it – if you enjoy ‘polishing’ your drawings, they work well. I used a very slight touch of carbon black ink, but the black pencil was quite adequate to achieve more precise, and darker, patches.com/products_images/prod_11257/d_boite-100-couleurs-luminance-6901-2-blender-caran-d-ache-detail9-0. 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. com/products_images/prod_11257/d_boite-100-couleurs-luminance-6901-2-blender-caran-d-ache-detail6-0. Following the launch of 24 new Luminance 6901™ colours, Caran d’Ache now proposes all 100 colours in a complete assortment, including 8 shades unique to the Caran d’Ache colour chart. Join our Studio membership and save your favourite Painters Online content, from gallery artwork to step-by-step guides, to your own online mood boards.