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Add vibrant, luminous color to your artwork with this 15-piece Assortment of Classic Neocolor I Artists' Pastels from Caran d'Ache. The reusable metal case comes with 15 artist grade pastels suitable for amateurs and professionals alike. This set includes White, Black, Yellow, Orange, Ochre, Brown, Vermilion, Scarlet, Purple, Violet, Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Turquoise Blue, Emerald Green and Yellow Green. These high quality artists' pastels meet the exacting standards of fine artists, illustrators, graphic artists and art teachers. Neocolor Pastels last twice as long as ordinary pastels or crayons. The water-resistant Neocolor Pastels can be used dry, or with a wax-resist technique for art projects that include water colors. Use Neocolor Pastels on a wide variety of materials: paper, cardboard, glass, wood, leather, fabric, stone, etc. Water-resistant pastels are soluble in spirits of turpentine. Set is packaged in a metal tin. Conforms to EM-71 (CE) and ASTM D4236 safety standards, suitable use in for U.S. schools. Caran d'Ache products are ideal for sketching, figure drawing, and portraits. Caran d'Ache uses high-quality pigments for colorfastness and excellent lightfastness. For over 80 years, Caran d'Ache has inspired amateur and professional artists, providing top quality pastels, pencils, paints, brushes and more.
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Add color and intensity to your artwork with this 15-piece Assortment of Classic Neocolor I Water-Resistant Wax Pastels from Caran d'Ache. The reusable metal case comes with 15 wax pastels suitable for amateurs and professionals alike. This set includes White, Black, Yellow, Orange, Ochre, Brown, Vermilion, Scarlet, Purple, Violet, Ultramarine, Cobalt Blue, Light Blue, Turquoise Blue, Emerald Green, and Yellow Green. These high quality wax pastels meet the exacting standards of fine artists, illustrators, graphic artists and art teachers. Neocolor I Water-Resistant Pastels are soft and easy to work, and result in brilliant color with exceptional covering power and excellent lightfastness. You can use them dry, and for encaustic techniques, as well as for wax-resist techniques with water colors. Use Neocolor I Wax Pastels on a wide variety of materials: paper, cardboard, glass, wood, leather, fabric, stone, etc. Water-resistant pastels are soluble in spirits of turpentine. Set is packaged in a metal tin. Conforms to EM-71 (CE) and ASTM D4236 safety standards, suitable use in for U.S. schools. Caran d'Ache products are ideal for sketching, figure drawing, and portraits. Caran d'Ache uses high-quality pigments for colorfastness and excellent lightfastness. For over 80 years, Caran d'Ache has inspired amateur and professional artists, providing top quality pastels, pencils, paints, brushes and more.
Terri Allen
September 3, 2025
I was so curious about artist quality crayons and I needed something that would help me fill large areas with color. The 30 set has a very good color range and you can blend and is very smooth going on the paper- not waxy. I was very pleased to find none of my sticks were broken.
Dan & Ti
September 1, 2025
I'm so impressed with these. I wondered if they were just glorified crayons at first, as they are pretty firm for pastels (firmer than the Neocolor II Aquarelle ones, even), but two things impressed me: they blend beautifully (I was able to make a lovely color wheel with only 3 colors), and yet they don't smear into each other. I was adding yellow to a narrow space between an area where I'd already laid a lot of green, and it didn't pull any of the green into my yellow! I've never had that little color transference before. Even when I wipe my finger across a page with thick, layered color, nothing comes off *at all*. (I do this to the aquarelle ones and definitely pick up a little pigment on my finger.)Oh, and the pigments are all beautiful, vibrant, and quite rich. (The Aquarelle ones are *slightly* more vibrant, but barely noticeable in my opinion.)I used these as a base and laid colored pencil on top to fill in and clean up the edges and details, and the two work seamlessly together. Since they are both wax-based, this is no surprise, but I still felt it was worth mentioning, since that means these can act as a quick color base to lay under colored pencil pieces.I love these, and am excited to use them more!! Very much worth the money.
History Teacher
August 1, 2025
I have had neocolor ii (the water soluble) for years and I love them, but hesitated to buy these as I wondered how different they were from crayons. I finally bit the bullet when I saw a used set here on Amazon for cheaper than the usual price. I am sorry I did not get some years ago! They are essentially crayons, but go down completely smoothly, and have brighter colors. They are supposed to be lightfast (wish I could find a chart online) which would be nice, though I think I will use mostly for journalling and sketching in notebooks. They match the corresponding neocolor ii's which will make them versatile. They are expensive, but so lovely to work with that eventually I will probably get some more and I won't mind paying full price.Note: they are probably overkill for children under 12 or so and I don't know if I would recommend them for colorists because they are crayons, really--you couldn't color within fine line with them. I think they will encourage me to do looser and more expressive drawing because of that, and I want to repeat, I like them very much.ETA: they don't seem to break a lot with normal usage but they do break when you drop them! Be careful. I broke my ochre pencil today. but not too badly. and I did drop the whole set and nothing else broke.
Johanna
July 12, 2025
I love how smooth and highly pigmented it is. I'm kind of annoyed and sad that some of it arrived broken and one's snapped in the middle. It transfers really great on paper and it's smooth when applied. I hope Caran d'ache adds a styrofoam on top of these to keep the items from breaking in transit. I would still buy it since the colors look and apply really great.
Annie
July 11, 2025
I discovered about these crayons from Art Prof on YouTube, and hearing good things about them felt like a joy to try them out. I was hesitant about the reviews on here being that the set in 30 color to arrive broken, sadly. However, I decided with the 15 colors to start off, and gradually add more colors, open stock crayons on Blick website.The crayons arrived shrink wrapped, and while the papers inside and the tin have color marks, the crayons itself came in free from breakage and cushioned with a black foam lining, so i am pleased with the arrival. (i also ordered a hardcover book, so contents came in a box) I bought from seller Noteworthy Goods.Opening the lid flap of the tin box reveals the rainbow of crayons that lights up a joy to my inner child. The swatches of colors lay very smoothly on sketchbook paper and not waxy like Crayola crayons. These have a bit harder feel to the crayons which does not deter from tactile use, and is very buildable in pigment.Even though these are higher priced, i believe using artist quality products makes the process of creation a pleasurable experience.Although i feel drawn to sets with a lot of colors, the option to repurchase colors open stock makes using Neocolors feel freeing that i can use over and over, that i wish i could do with Crayola crayons.For a smooth and even color lay out, Art Prof recommends swatching colors on a paper to smooth out the edges of the crayons.I hope this helps those who are deciding to buy Neocolors I, who are looking for artist crayons, and wants to incorporate with mixed media or other dry mediums.
mgacevedo
June 20, 2025
The box came in in great condition and was shrieked wrapped. However to my surprise the wax pastels were all broken from the tips. I am assuming that they don't fit on this box and the foam inside is causing them to break from the tip. Other than that they are very much water resistant, very vibrant and lovely.
shopper
May 26, 2025
When I opened it, a couple of the tips were broken off. I opted to let it go, and put the box away for a couple of weeks until I have time to use them. When I went to take a crayon out, it broke into multiple pieces as I went to lift it out. I then realized at least half of them were broken in multiple places, and you didn't really see the breaks until you tried to use the crayons. The return window is closed so they are useless.Lesson learned: Pick up each crayon as soon as they arrive.The return window was a month, I think, from ordering, and they took 10 days or so to get here, so beware.
ArtMcG
May 23, 2025
The colors are rich and fun to use. Yet, I resent the loss of about 1/2 inch on four of them. Considered sending them back as damaged goods, but I needed to use on a project.
Wendy A.
April 14, 2025
Great set, good colour range, nice waxy texture, but firmer then a normal oil pastel. Lovely quality, handy sized tin, easier to take with you.
Pires Monteiro Steven
March 1, 2025
Lovely sticks.Very useful for mix media art.
Aleksandra
February 16, 2025
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Catherine
January 29, 2025
Very pleased with this priduct, I have other caran dache products and they are definitely worth the extra money. Goods arrived in express time and they were very securely wrapped. Highly recommend this seller.
Hugo
January 26, 2025
De kwaliteit is goed, enkel 1 van de stiften is gebroken afgeleverd, wat jammer is. Kan hier nog iets aan gedaan worden? Aangezien het een cadeau is. Ik hoor het graag!
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