Caran d’Ache Supracolor Soft Aquarelle Pencils

Professional quality water-soluble colored pencils. Available in a range of 120 colors. Made in Switzerland.

Supracolor Watercolor Pencils feature super soft, very strong 3.6mm water-soluble lead with exceptional covering power and excellent lightfastness. The lead is encased in color-coded shaft made from California Cedar. These are average sized wooden pencils with a lead of watercolor pigment. They may be used wet or dry, and give artists the ability to create watercolor paintings with nothing more than a brush and plain water. Use the Supracolor Watercolor Pencils for shading, cross-hatching, graded applications, watercolor effects, washes and mixed media.

Caran d’Ache is Swiss manufacturer of high-quality writing instruments, fine art products, and accessories. Caran d’Ache was founded in Geneva in 1924 when Arnold Schweitzer purchased the Ecridor Pencil Factory. Schweitzer named his new company after Caran d’Ache, the nickname of a French satiric political cartoonist from Russia. “Caran d’Ache” comes from the Russian word karandash, meaning pencil. In 1929 Carl Schmid invented the Fixpencil, one of the first Clutch Pencils which has been trademarked by Caran d’Ache. http://www.carandache.ch/m/index.lbl