Artist’s Drawing & Sketching Pencil Sets – Conté à Paris

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Conté à Paris drawing and sketching pencils can be used to create beautiful portraits and landscapes, but are also ideal for rough sketching. These large diameter pencils have smooth leads that are rich in pigment. With a sharpened lead, you achieve an accurate and delicate finish. With a half-worn lead, the finish becomes more opaque as the pressure exerted on the pencil increases. Use the pencils alone or together to create interesting effects and a complex finish.

Pencils are pre-sharpened.

Product features:

  • Assorted drawing & sketching wood incased pencils.
  • Smooth core.
  • Excellent lightfastness.
  • Lead diameter: 3 to 5mm.
  • Pencil dimensions: 175 x 8.5mm.
  • Available in sets of 6.

Available options:

  • Assorted Drawing Pencil Set.
  • Assorted Sketching Pencil Set.
  • Sanguine Assorted Sketching Pencil Set.

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Drawing & Sketching Pencils – Conté à Paris

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Conté à Paris drawing and sketching pencils can be used to create beautiful portraits and landscapes, but are also ideal for rough sketching. These pencils shade easily and their lines are easily blended. Their core is compact, with a diameter of 4 to 5mm, to give wide and rich lines. Create highlights and contrasts, shade and give colour to your drawings.  With a sharpened lead, you achieve an accurate and delicate finish. With a half-worn lead, the finish becomes more opaque as the pressure exerted on the pencil increases. Use the pencils alone or together to create interesting effects and a complex finish.

Product features:

  • Sketching pencils ideal for portraits & landscapes.
  • Shade and blend easily.
  • Available in Sepia, Sanguine and White.
  • Pencil dimensions: 176. x 8.5mm.
  • Lead diameter: 5mm (Sanguine & Sepia); 4mm (White).
  • Sanguine is available in 3 colour grades: Sanguine, Sanguine XVIII, Sanguine Medicis.

 

The Conté à Paris Sanguine Pencil is a deep rust colour and its lines are easily blended. The Conté à Paris Sanguine XVIII Pencil is a darker brown than the Sanguine Pencil but has the same red oxide. The Conté à Paris Sanguine Medicis Pencil is the darkest of the Sanguine pencils and has a little less red oxide. With a sharpened lead the drawing is accurate and the colour is transparent, if the work is lightly drawn the Sanguine pencils let the texture of the paper show through. With a half-worn lead, the opacity increases with the pressure exerted on the pencil. These pencils are frequently used in portraits and drawing the body.

The colour of the Conté à Paris Sepia Pencil is reminiscent to burnt umber. Paired with the Sanguine pencils, this pencil enables the most contrasted parts of the body to be shaded and emphasises and highlights the value of a face.
Instantly give the natural colour needed for landscapes as well.

The Conté à Paris White Pencil is mainly used with the lead sharpened making the line clear and the colour transparent. It’s an essential complement for all the other pencils as its main function is to add hints and highlights but it can also be used alone on colour- and black paper.

 

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Pierre Noire Black Sketching Pencils – Conté à Paris

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Conté à Paris Pierre Noire Pencils are made with soft leads that are rich, intense and matt black. These pencils are suitable for use on a variety of surfaces, from craft paper to linen canvas. These pencils are suited to both detailed drawing and rough sketching as the leads are strong yet soft.

It is recommended that the barrel alone should be sharpened with a knife and the lead shaped with a scraper or sandpaper.

Product features:

  • Matt black pencil.
  • Soft lead rich in pigment.
  • Excellent lightfastness.
  • Pencil dimensions: 176. x 8.5mm.
  • Lead diameter: 5mm.
  • Available lead grades: H, HB, B, 2B and 3B.
  • Pencil hardness indicated on pencil.

 

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Charcoal Sketching Pencils – Conté à Paris

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In pencil form, charcoal produces more accurate and carefully drawn lines than traditional charcoal and it does not dirty the hands. Conté à Paris Charcoal Pencils give a clean, dense finish of an intense black. The wooden pencil casing aids in not only drawing without a mess, but it also protects the soft core ensuring that it does not break, making it easy to transport and ideal for drawing and sketching on the go. Its advantage is that it blends perfectly with the iron red and sepia pencils. Use of fixative is recommended.

Product features:

  • Wood encased charcoal with a uniform, smooth and intense stroke.
  • Best sharpened with a sharp knife.
  • Shade and blend lines easily.
  • Pencil dimensions: 176. x 8.5mm.
  • Lead diameter: 4mm.
  • Available lead grades: H, HB, B, and 2B.
  • Pencil hardness indicated on pencil.

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Carbon Sketching Pencils – Conté à Paris

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Conté à Paris Carbon Pencils are an exciting variation on the classic charcoal pencil: The pigment in the core is charcoal, but stronger and less crumbly. The core’s unique “consistency” makes it possible to draw precise and varied lines and makes it easy to create an unusually wide range of tones, from delicate grays to deep blacks. Its delicate and highly detailed finish enables all types of perspectives to be drawn accurately.

Product features:

  • Carbon-based pencil derived from traditional charcoal.
  • Draws black, matte lines.
  • Thick, cylindrical shaft in glossy lacquered natural wood.
  • Best sharpened with a sharp knife.
  • Ideal for sketching and technical drawings.
  • Available lead grades: 2H, H, HB, B, 2B and 3B.
  • Pencil hardness indicated on pencil.

 

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Graphite Drawing Pencils – Conté à Paris

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The Conté à Paris Graphite Drawing Pencils have a particularly smooth core which allows them to slide over the paper and not scratch. This pencil is great for detailed and accurate work, rough sketches, life drawing, and are well suited to both beginners and experienced artists. An exceptional and extensive range of pencils, including both traditional and unique leads for maximum versatility in line, tone and intensity.

Product features:

  • Graphite drawing & sketching pencils.
  • Smooth core.
  • Excellent lightfastness.
  • Lead diameter: 3mm.
  • Pencil dimensions: 175 x 8.5mm.
  • Available grades: 3H, 2H, H, HB, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, and 6B.

 

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Calligraphy Kit – Brause

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For over 100 years Brause has been making nibs of excellent quality; manufactured with the perfect balance of flexibility and durability. Whether it’s for calligraphy and penmanship, or for use in scrapbooking, drawing, or journaling projects, the Brause Calligraphy Kit is a practical set for anyone interested in calligraphy.

This set features:

  • 1 x wooden nib holder.
  • 3 x square metallic [Bandzug] calligraphy nibs – 15B (1.5mm), 25B (2,5mm), and 30B (3mm) pan.
  • 1 x 15ml Herbin Black ink.
  • 1 x brush.
  • 1 x instruction booklet.

The Bandzug nib is a palette nib (or ornamental nib) that is metallic with a square point. It has a reservoir that offers appreciable writing comfort: you benefit from a good autonomy of writing between each refill of ink. The numbers designate the width of the nib of the pen for more or less thick strokes. Unique by sharpness of its angles and by the precision of its upstrokes, the Bandzug nib gives incomparable Gothic letters.

The nib holder is a natural wood pen holder for a sleek, modern look. Ergonomic, it offers optimal grip and real writing pleasure. The Jacques Herbin calligraphy ink is coloured with pigments. The gum contained in the ink ensures perfect adhesion to the pen. 

The brush is used to deposit the ink on the feathers.

 

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Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils – Lyra

Rembrandt Polycolor Pencils – Lyra

For the colour masters of the future! Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor Coloured Pencils are creamy crayons in a pencil form that allows an artist ultimate control on paper, cardboard, plastic, wood, and/or textiles. Lightfast, water-resistant and oil based with a high level of brilliance, these special pencils give you a superior performance,  especially on rougher textures which are good at retaining pigments.

Product features:

  • Available in 78 brilliant colours.
  • For artists, graphic artists, designers, and architects.
  • For fine, precise contours and brilliantly coloured areas.
  • Can easily be blended and overlayed for limitless hues.
  • Oil based and water-resistant.
  • Excellent lightfastness.
  • Round-shaped, 4mm lead pencils encased in the best PEFC certified cedarwood.

 

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Please note that some pencil colour names could differ from the pencil colour names on the packaging. Click here to view Polycolor Pencil colour name changes.

For the lightfastness view colour chart – the lightfast (LF) rating indicates the item’s resistance to fading, which has been tested under museum conditions. 
Star Ratings:
*** = Maximum lightfastness = 7 ,8 Blue Wool Scale [Maximum fade resistance (100 + years)].
** = High lightfastness = 5, 6 Blue Wool Scale [Very good fade resistance].
* = Reasonable lightfastness = 3, 4 Blue Wool Scale [Good fade resistance].

A whole lot of brilliance – Lukas Aquarell 1862

When Lukas Aquarell 1862 was first mentioned to me, I have to admit, I was rather sceptical as I had (up to that point) not had any experience of using their products. The Lukas brand might not be a brand known to many watercolour artists as yet, but I do think they are starting to make people sit up and take notice. This German-made brand uses top quality pigments and they certainly don’t skimp on the pigment load either.