Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901 Pencil Box 100 + Blenders

Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901™ Colour Pencil Box Set 100 + Blenders is a professional artist-grade coloured pencil set designed to deliver exceptional colour intensity, blending performance, and industry-leading lightfastness.

The full range of Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901™ Colour Pencils is curated to cover life-like skin tones, complex neutrals and deep darks essential for fine art. Every shade has been formulated using finely ground pigments chosen for their purity, intensity, and resistance to UV rays.

The creamy pencils offer excellent coverage and mixing capacity allow for intense applications, blending, and burnishing, while extreme softness enables subtle blending and graduations. The Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901™ Colour Pencil + Blenders Set is perfect for artists seeking vibrant colour, precision, and professional-quality results. Ideal for detailed illustrations, ultra-realistic drawings, portraits, botanicals and fine-art works. They can also be used alongside other Caran d'Ache drawing media for mixed techniques and underpainting.

Contents:

• 100 x Luminance 6901 Coloured Pencils
• 1 x Pencil Blender
• 1 x Full Blender
• Duplicate Black and White Pencils

Key features

• Round cedar wood body with end casing matching the colour of the lead
• Light resistance complies with highest international standards for light resistance in coloured pencils (ASTM D6901)
  • 81 colours rated LFI
  • 19 colours rated LFII maintaining their colour intensity for up to 100 years
• A permanent creamy lead - oil/wax blend
• 3.8mm diameter for clean and accurate lines
• Maximum covering power
• Diverse colour palette with 100 colours in the range
• Made in Switzerland.

Included in the set are a Full Blender Stick and Pencil Blender. Both share the same colourless, oil/wax formula to soften strokes and burnish colours. By pressing the blender into your coloured layers the wax particles are crushed, flattening the tooth of the paper but also creating a glossy wax-resistant finish.

• Pencil Blender: Encased in wood like a standard pencil, it is best used for fine detailing and creating crisp lines. To maintain a sharp precise tip use with a good quality pencil sharpener.
• Full Blender Stick: The uncased stick has a hexagonal body and can be used both horizontally or vertically creating no wastage. Use to cover larger surface areas quickly or for laying down broad strokes. It does not require sharpening.

Recommended Surfaces:

It is recommended to use heavyweight archival papers with a fine to medium tooth with Caran d'Ache Luminance 6901™ Colour Pencil to ensure the surface has just enough tooth to grip the creamy lead. A hot pressed watercolour paper (HP) is ideal. For precise photorealistic artwork consider a good quality bristol vellum paper which will provide an excellent flat foundation for the rich pigments in the range. Toned papers offer a subtle texture, providing a neutral background that makes highlights pop and allow you to achieve shadows and depth quicker than a white paper.

Range: Luminance
Pack size: Set 100 + Blenders
Application: Drawing, Illustration
Product type: Pencil