Brilliant prices, fast delivery and great service. Amazing personal touches. They have a wide variety of art supplies aswell! What more could you want from a art shop? - Jenna Bartosch
Absolutely fantastic service. Received my order several days earlier than expected. Beautiful handwritten note from the owner was included and made me feel special. 5 star service, thank you. - Ester Britz Werner
Amazing service. Great prices. Safely packaged and fast delivery. I was kept updated on everything - every step of the way. Highly recommend. - Bumblebee Tuna
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Art Savings Club has a great range of products at excellent prices. Delivery is estimated at 5-8 days (if I remember correctly), but I ordered on a Saturday and my parcel arrived Wednesday morning. I even got a free gift! I’m very pleased with this site. Would highly recommend. - Greta Pepler
Fantastic service, efficient communication, fast delivery and great value, all round very low stress and pain-free experience. It is entirely unlikely that I will find cause to order art supplies from anywhere else ever again. :) - Michelle Smith
I was very impressed with the service offered - and there was a surprise gift inside the parcel! I don’t know if many companies that do that!!! Thank you! - Arlaine Oxenham
I have used this company twice now. Great prices and incredibly quick delivery. I ordered on Monday night, items arrived at my house at 08:00 on Wednesday morning. - Helen Strachan
First time customer and definitely not the last time.Great prices , great service and makes one feel a part of the art family, not just an order number.Thank you for all the effort from personalized notes and to a free gift.Keep up the great work! Cant wait to use my new supplies - Carey-Lee Vijoen
Excellent to buy from. The service is swift and they have the largest variety of supplies that I’ve seen in this entire country. Prices are also the best that I could find to thus far. Definitely recommend them. - Francois Van Der Merwe
This superbly built pencil line features hexagonal bases, reducing the chance of your pencil rolling off a table or workspace, but also a large, durable 4.7mm lead with a strong point and colours that are highly lightfast, water-soluble and made with ultra-fine pigments. Blending and mixing these pastel coloured pencils is extremely easy when applied to paper with a velvety feel. Keen to perfect this precious medium while following the advice of masters in the art of pastels, Caran d’Ache has endowed its Pastel Pencil range with optimum properties. Extra-fine, highly concentrated pigments offer wonderful luminosity and excellent covering power along with exceptional lightfastness. Available in 84 wonderful colours.
Applications: High pigment concentration for generous blurring. Ideal superimposed for blurred effects, transparency and subtle colour blends.
The Pastel Pencils range is designed and manufactured in the Geneva workshops of Caran d’Ache, in line with eco-friendly standards and certifications and according to the Swiss Made quality label. Extra-fine, highly concentrated pigments offer wonderful luminosity and excellent covering power along with exceptional lightfastness. The large, 4.7 mm wide diameter of the pastel lead ensures colour smoothness, resistance to smudging and precise lines. A response to the greatest needs of every artist: ranges to suit the technical and colour requirements of both amateur and professional pastel artists. On grainy media, the application reveals the strength of the pigments and beauty of the material. This assortment of colours provides pastel artists with a large range of durable 4.7mm lead, and colours that are highly lightfast, water-soluble and made with ultra-fine pigments. Features of these pencils include a large lead diameter (4.7 mm) with a strong point and a rich texture that adheres well to most surfaces.
A well-balanced colour range for the Pastel Pencils includes a selection of 84 shades – vivid, luminous and natural (toned down), they respond perfectly to the needs of professional pastel artists. Also included is a wide range of clear and dark flesh tones, and shades of Cobalt Blue, Green Earth, Beige, and cold and warm Greys.
Technical description :
Type: Dry pastel pencils, rounded hexagonal casing to minimise the risk of dropping
Lead: Large lead. Diameter: 4.7 mm. Resistant tip. Rich texture adheres to the medium, smooth to apply and generous blurring. Exceptional light resistance (Standard Blue Wool Scale – between and
Pencil: rounded hexagonal, 8 ply, matt casing matches the colour of the lead, the colour number indicated
Premium FSC certified Cedarwood
Best sharpened with a cutter
ASTM D4236 compliant
Available in four themed assortments (PASTEL PENCILS), in three assortments PASTEL PENCILS ( 20, 40 and 76 colours) in various colours.
Developed and manufactured in Switzerland.
I adore my Caran D’Ache pastel pencils – they are amazingly opaque and buttery in application and with a very high pigment load, easily apply over other pastel products. Definitely a must-have!
Henriette van Staden (verified owner) –
I adore my Caran D’Ache pastel pencils – they are amazingly opaque and buttery in application and with a very high pigment load, easily apply over other pastel products. Definitely a must-have!