Caran d'Ache Supracolor Soft Aquarelle Coloured Pencils 30 Set

Thirty precisely calibrated water-soluble colors built for independent illustrators, fashion designers, and landscape sketchers who need serious tonal range. The expanded palette includes skin tone anchors, rich earth accents, deep forest greens, and intermediate hues — Golden Yellow, Flame Red, Carmine, Prussian Blue, Malachite Green, Olive Green, and Vandyke Brown among them — significantly cutting down the mixing work for complex multi-subject compositions.

The 3.8mm soft core supports the full range of Supracolor technique — wash drawings, cross-hatching, dry sketching, watercolor rendering, and mixed-media highlighting. Each hexagonal cedar barrel is color-coded to its pigment. Presented in a classic metal studio tin with internal divider tracks.

Individual colors are also available as single pencils if you want to fill in specific shades.

Specifications

• Pencil count: 30
• Colors included: White, Light Gray, Gray, Black, Yellow, Pale Yellow, Orange, Light Ochre, Reddish Yellow, Raw Umber, Burnt Sienna, Scarlet, Carmine, Pink, Purple, Purple Violet, Violet, Periwinkle Blue, Ultramarine, Blue Jeans, Prussian Blue, Cobalt Blue, Turquoise Blue, Malachite Green, Emerald Green, Grass Green, Yellow Green, Lemon Yellow, Light Olive, Bluish Pale
• Core diameter: 3.8 mm
• Core type: Soft, water-soluble pigment core
• Casing: Hexagonal cedar wood barrel with color-matched coding
• Technique scope: Wash drawing, cross-hatching, watercolor rendering, dry sketching, mixed-media highlighting
• Packaging: Classic metal studio tin with internal divider tracks
• Origin: Swiss Made, Geneva

FAQ

• Is the 30-set suitable for portrait and figure work? Yes. The inclusion of skin tone anchors and warm earth values makes portrait and figurative illustration more accessible without extensive manual color mixing.
• What color range does the 30-set cover? Beyond the core primaries and secondaries, it adds a wide range of intermediate tones — expanded greens, earth shades, skin values, and neutrals — covering more subject areas straight from the tin with less mixing required.
• Can these pencils be used for fashion illustration specifically? Yes. The combination of dry precision for outline and detail work with the ability to dissolve into broad background washes makes the Supracolor format particularly well suited to fashion illustration workflows.
• Do the pigments streak or leave residue when washed? No. The extra-fine pigments in the Supracolor core disperse fully in water without leaving gritty streaks or powdery residue, preserving the texture and finish of the paper surface.