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! The artist and Caran d’Ache have joined forces to dream up two assortments of 10 Neocolor® II Aquarelle pastels. One in cold shades, playing on a range of blues, greens and pinks. The other in warmer tones with a range of yellows, oranges and umber. Two original palettes consisting of the artist’s favourite colours. After it dried, I reworked the same painting with more coloring and a medium Pentel Aquash water brush. What I had down prior worked like an under painting. Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle Crayon Sets are presented in metal tins. These sets would make ideal gifts. This review discusses watersoluble Caran D’ache Neocolor II wax pastels, not to be confused with Neocolor I, which are not water soluble.

Taking these supplies and the Caran d’Ache Crayons on the road is a simple way to create watercolor sketches anywhere! BTW, I have used hair spray but you have to get the cheap, old fashioned hair spray, not the new-fangled stuff with special ingredients. I’ve used Aqua Net with success. It also has an unpleasant odor but is much cheaper than art fixative. For children’s art, it’s perfect.|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: The distant hill was added by working a short length of a dark grey pastel onto the wet paper, giving the impression of a wooded hillside. Diluted Sahara was introduced into the lower sky then blue added into the areas surrounding it. I changed the dilution of the wash in places to give the impression of clouds.

If you like watching more of a completed process here is a 14:45 minute speed video by JenW Fine Arts. Jessica, I am so embarrassed not to have caught your name at the top of this post, you can probably feel the heat emanating from my red face to wherever you are. Please accept my apologies. You wrote a great review of a wonderful product. 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. I also found you can use each individual crayon as basically a paint tube. Grab a wet brush and rub it against the end of the crayon to transfer some paint to your brush. You can use them as paint without even letting them touch the paper! Price Point 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

Blending Neocolor ii wax pastels

I created a wash from the added marks on the gable end wall of the building and was pleased to see that all the marks lifted from the paper to create a flat wash. 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 I created a grey wash and continued it right into the foreground then left the paper overnight to dry completely. For the final painting Welsh Farm I decided to work on the smoother side of Sennelier Rough 140lb watercolour paper and drew a pencil drawing of the subject.