Colour Pencil Sets
Have all the colours of the rainbow at your fingertips (and then some) with our range of individual coloured pencils and colour pencil sets. Find everything you need from the world’s best brands like Prismacolour, Lyra, Holbien, Faber Castell and Caran D'Ache. And with free shipping when you spend over $100, there’s never been a better time to buy online. Find the coloured drawing kit to suit you below or click the link to keep reading:
Colour Pencil Sets
Whether you’re a novice or a seasoned professional, Art to Art has an art pencil set to suit you. Ranging from 12 colours in a set all the way up to 120, we stock pencils in a variety of hardnesses and price points.
Types of colour pencils
Oil Based Pencils - offers a buttery smooth pencil that can be easily blended for layered effects, highlights, and transitions. Their break resistant, water resistant, smudge proof the pigment is bound with vegetable oil to produce the coloured hard or soft core.
Wax Based Pencils -Most colour pencils are wax based. The wax-based formula makes for smooth colour laydown in any application from the lightest of shading to the heaviest marks, and is water and break-resistant. Note: wax based pencils can be prone to producing “bloom”, which is a powdery film on top of the colour.
Water Soluble Pencils - either wax or oil based, emulsifier is added to the pigment which allows it to be liquified.
Watercolour Pencils - Watercolour Pencils can be transformed or be completely dissolved to behave in the same way as classic watercolour paints. Watercolour Pencils provide artists with great versatility of expression when drawing, shading and painting in watercolours we have a wide range of watercolour pencils available.
Pastel pencils - pastel pencils are a wax and oil free pastel pencil with a high level of pigment perfectly suited for fine details in pastels. These richly pigmented pencils have the softness and blendability of traditional pastels, but encased in a painted wooden barrel, they eliminate the mess of traditional pastels and allow for easy sharpening and detail work (Must be sharpened with a knife)
While you’re here, check out our extensive range of art paper, sketch pads and visual art diaries from leading brands such as Mont Marte, Moleskine, Stillman and Birn and more. When you can buy now, pay later with Afterpay, there’s no artistic dream you can’t fulfil at Art to Art.
FAQs
Which colour pencil brand is best?
Well that comes down to personal preference.
What paper is best for colour pencils?
A mid to heavy weight paper is best, bristol paper works great also.
Can you use watercolour paper for coloured pencils?
Yes.
