Caran d'Ache Pastel Pencils are made from pure raw materials to create a pastel pencil paste that is fed by hand into round moulding dies, oven-dried in special baskets, carefully glued between two strips of the finest California cedar, and cut into lengths to produce several pencils.

Large diameter pencils have very fine, smooth leads, rich in pigment. Produce precise marks or lines on variety of papers. Presence of abrasives provides excellent toning and stumping qualities. Many colors. Also sets to 48.

These durable wood-cased pencils have the same pigment as used in Cretacolor's Pastel Carré Sticks, a hard pastel, and so are intermixable. They give the same brilliant colors and high lightfastness.

Derwent Pastel Pencils offer all the expressive qualities of hard pastels in the convenience of a pencil form. These professional-quality pencils are ideal for use as an individual medium or for detailing in combination with pastel work.

Faber-Castell's Pitt Pastel Pencils are very suitable for lines, shading, delicate color transitions, and extended areas. Use them for sketches, studies, portraits, still-lifes, and landscape drawings. They give a smooth flow of color.

These German-made pencils are world famous for their quality, lightfast pigments. Their opaque, water-soluble colors blend beautifully and erase easily. The large-diameter lead can make broad strokes or be sharpened to a fine point for details.