Caran d'Ache Creative Art Materials NeoColor II Water Soluble Wax Pastel Set, Multi-Colour, Pack of 15 & Artist Plexiglass Pallet White 26 x 13 mm

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By the way, I used Pentel Aquash water brushes, which are the best water brushes you can get, as the water does not leak to the brush unless you squeeze the firm reservoir. My watercolour painting of Yu Morisawa, a.k.a. Creamy Mami, using Caran D’Ache Neocolor II There are 2 types of Neocolor Wax pastels. Neocolor 2 are water-soluble whereas Neocolor 1 aren’t. This does mean that if you wanted to you could create effects by combining the two. For example if I use non watersoluble white pastel and a soluble green I get a wax resist effect. You can see here some other combinations too. crayons, in the colours above plus: light grey, grey, raw umber, salmon, reddish brown, carmine, rose, lilac, light violet 1, Prussian blue, light blue, malachite green, lemon yellow, light olive, dark olive

The first thing I want to mention is paper. If you are going to be using a fair bit of water with the pastels I would suggest using mixed media paper. I like Canson Imagine and Daler Rowney Mixed Media paper. But you can also use a toned mixed media paper. I have used a heavyweight coloured paper but only used water very sparingly. My suggestion is to keep it simple - I bet that a small set of 10-15 will be more than enough for art journaling!If you plan to create portraits or drawings where you’ll need a variety of colors, you’ll want to get more. Hint: Get the colors that you LIKE and you'll use them! A note about using pens or markers on top of wax crayons. Don’t do it! All discounts against RRP are made against the United Kingdom Recommended Retail Price (RRP). Unless specified, offers and vouchers are not valid on products which are already discounted from RRP, gift vouchers, books and from the I LOVE ART range. Next day, I added the tree structures and placed shadow onto the buildings using the dark grey pastel.

|Water-soluble wax oil pastels that can also be used dry! Tim Fisher shows how to create a wide variety of effects on different surfaces with Neocolour II from Caran d'Ache. Top features:

Selecting ultramarine blue and a pale yellow, called Sahara, I scribbled these colours onto a scrap of watercolour paper, which I then used as a palette. Scraped shavings of colour were applied directly to the paper then solubilised with a brush to create a transitioned wash effect. Techniques for using Neocolour II Once the crayons have been water activated, they can be repetedly wet and reworked as many times as you like. This may be a turn off for some, but I think this is one of the strengths of the Neocolor IIs. The crayons are so opaque that layering is still very easy, even with them remaining water soluble after the first wash. You can work from dark to light or light to dark, both work really well.

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Scribbling onto a scrap of watercolour paper, I then added a solution of Sahara yellow followed by ultramarine blue into the sky. Woodland Walk, Neocolor II water-soluble wax oil pastel on Fisher 400, (25.5x30.5cm) How to paint a Welsh farm scene using Neocolour II

Breaking off a short piece of burnt sienna, I dragged this across the top of the trees, the foreground bush and the facing wall of the barn on the left. I then developed the lit sides of the other building by working dry raw sienna over the walls. Into the damp paper I added a mixed wash of ultramarine and light cadmium red for the tree line and shadows. Basing their work on the existing excellent qualities – exceptional coverage, smoothness and extreme lightfastness –, the craftsmen of the Manufacture added water solubility, a property greatly appreciated by connoisseurs of the Maison from all manner of artistic fields and from school age upwards.” Neocolor IIs are great for mixed media projects and cover well on many different kinds of surface because they are so opaque. Pretty much the only thing they don’t work very well on is glass.Caran d’Ache Neocolor II Water-Soluble Wax Oil Pastels are available individulay or in tins of assorted colours in sets of ten, 15, 30, 40 and 84. How to paint a snowy farm scene using Neoclour II Dragging the side of a dry pastel over a very wet surface creates a number of soft misty effects, great for portraying distant trees and hillsides. The pastels achieved a good effect for the posts when I pressed hard then reduced the pressure as I drew downwards. How to paint a woodland scene using Neocolour II

Caran D'Ache of Switzerland. Water-soluble wax pastels (coloured crayons). Suitable for numerous artistic techniques on a wide range of materials. By the way, once the watercolour dries, I did have a hard time using wax and oil-based coloured pencils on top. Even the white pastel pencils had a hard time showing up. This is where the watercolour or acrylic ink would come in handy. To put this medium to the test, I decided to do a couple of test paintings, trying out and combining different techniques. This included wetting the crayon itself, or using dry crayons over washes, heating up the paper with a hair dryer to melt the crayons onto the paper, and creating my own pan palette by disolving shavings of crayon with water onto my palette as if I were using watercolours.Raw sienna was added to the nearer bush and midnight blue for the darker areas and the cast shadow. I personally do love how easy it is to do watercolour painting with Caran D’Ache Neocolor II, but my favourite way of using these pastels is actually a mix of both wet and dry. In my painting of Yu below, I have added the whites dry to the painting as a finishing touch for highlights. My painting of Yu Morisawa (a.k.a. Creamy Mami) using Caran D’Ache Neocolor II both wet and dry