Watercolour pencils have become an incredibly popular medium, allowing for all the beauty and movement of conventional watercolour paints, while allowing for all the detailed precision and portability of a pencil. Albrecht Dürer artists’ watercolour pencils provide artists with great versatility of expression when drawing, shading and painting in watercolours. Depending on the paper being used, the pigments can be completely dissolved and will then behave in the same way as classic watercolour paints.

Along the barrel of the pencil, each pencil’s lightfastness is indicated with either one, two or three stars, three stars indicating the highest lightfastness. With the set of 120 Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer pencils, 64 of the 120 pencils are rated three stars, 48 pencils are rated two stars and only 8 pencils rated one star.

Product features:

• High-quality pigments of unsurpassed light-fastness and brilliance.
• Pigments dissolve completely when brushed with water.
• Smooth colour stroke.
• 120 colours
• Lead diameter: 3.8 mm, Hexagonal cross-section 8.3mm, varnished in the same colour as the lead.
• Break-resistant due to special bonding process.
• Sold individually, in sets of 12, 24, 36, 60, 120 and a wooden set of 120.

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For the lightfastness view colour chart – the lightfast (LF) rating indicates the resistance of the item to fading, which has been tested under museum conditions.
Faber-Castell indicates lightfast ratings on the majority of their professional art materials with a star icon.
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

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