Prismalo - Supracolor Fine
watersoluble pencils

A high quality Swiss made range of artist water-soluble coloured pencils. Prismalo 1 is strong hard and long lasting with a thin lead in a range of bright colours with excellent light fastness. Offers the artist a wide range of wet and dry pencil drawing techniques. Ideal for the professional artists, designers, graphic artists and decorators, etc. Available in assorted colours tin sets and single colours in boxes of 12.  Free informational colour chart is available or visit Caran d’Ache on the internet at http://www.carandache.ch 

ASSORTMENT

Assortments of 12, 18, 30, 40, and 80 colour pencils

Separate colours

PROPERTIES/APPLICATION

Artists' quality colour pencils

Watersoluble leads - Thin and hard leads - Unlimited drawing techniques

USERS

Artists - Illustrators - Amateurs - Students

TECHNIQUES

Mixing colours

Crosshatching

This is a basic technique in the use of colour pencils. Sketch in the subject lightly
with a grey pencil. Start with the light shades. Gradually build up volume with criss-crossed lines. Circular movements add variety and interest. Hold the pencil at a flat angle for shading, and upright for details.

Watercolour technique

Material: small round brush, water, a rag.  Sketch out the drawing. Apply the colours, then brush over the dry marks with a moist or wet brush according to the effects you want to achieve. Clean the brush in water each time you change colour. Other methods: dip the pencil tip in the water, or wet the paper and draw into it with the pencil. Do not press too hard. Apply touches of colour on a scrap of paper, then lift off the colour with a wet brush.

Stencils and texturing

Special effects can be achieved by placing the paper on a textured support. You can also cut out a stencil and copy it as many times as you want, moving the stencil and changing the colour as you wish.

Printing technique

Sketch the subject on sandpaper (180-220 grain). Wet one side of a sheet of paper with a sponge. Place the wet side of the paper on the subject and rub the dry side with a back and forth movement of a finger. Move the paper to copy the subject as often as you wish.