150 color paper box-set Holbein colored pencil (japan import)

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They make a complete range of pinks and magentas plus a beautiful selection of reds with no overlaps or missing values. Anyway, it sounds like Holbein was forced to reformulate one or more pencil cores before they could export to the United States… But that doesn’t change the fact that these pencils are of excellent quality as well , and hence, they are worthy of competition. Like the Polychromos, these pencils also flow incredibly smooth and blend effortlessly as well. The colors also perform outstandingly in terms of vibrancy and vividity. The pigments can also be manipulated with turpentine or any odorless mineral spirit.

I highly recommend Holbein for portrait artists. With the large range of browns, pinks, pale blue-violets, and celadon greens, they give you everything you need for realistic skin and skin underpainting for any ethnicity. Holbein come pre-sharpened… kinda. They’re sharpened to a shallow point but not enough to actually put a real point on the end— the tippy-tip is quite flat which makes the sharpening is completely useless. Be prepared to spend time sharpening the entire set before coloring. Holbein offers about 18 browns and beiges which run from warm red browns to cool chocolate umbers. A nice selection.

The sets are quite large so you will have a lot of colors to choose from. This is particularly true in brighter colors such as yellows and purples. There is also an abundant supply of specialty colors such as Easter greens and pinks. While we don’t find a need for many of these colors in a typical art piece, they may be perfect for you. The Holbein Artist Colored pencils are a very interesting colored pencil set in that they combine multiple ingredients including wax, fats, and oils to their pigments for their cores. The result is a unique experience that has to be tried to be appreciated.

Every country has different safety standards. Art supplies often get caught in the crossfire because beautiful colors are made from heavy metals, toxic chemicals, and other hazardous ingredients. Holbein makes 6 warm and 6 cool grays. All are helpfully marked as Gray 1-6 with 1 being the lightest and 6 the darkest. It’s wonderfully logical.Holbeins are a soft-core pencil and the exposed core will break off if you drop the pencil onto a hard floor.