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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The most iconic water-soluble pastels from Caran d’Ache can be found in a limited edition designed in collaboration with the artist Beya Rebaï. An internationally renowned French illustrator and Neocolor® ambassador, she made a name for herself with her colourful, dreamlike world and her meticulous palette. These pastels with bright, vibrant colours, a velvety texture and exceptional lightfastness are essential media for her work with some of the biggest names including The Guardian, the NY Times, les Échos and Nike to name but a few. Welsh Farm, Neocolor II water-soluble wax pastel on Sennelier Rough 140lb watercolour paper, (25.5x33cm) For my beach landscape painting, I used my Moleskine Watercolor Sketchbook and a Water Brush (a lifesaver for travel sketching).

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. These pastels work on a wide variety of surfaces – a real advantage for an artist who likes to experiment. These Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle Crayons are water-soluble crayons for a variety of applications including encaustic techniques. They are manufactured using only the best pigments to ensure brilliant, intense colours. They have excellent lightfastness, high opacity and radiant colours. All colours are intermixable. Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle Crayons are 10cm long with a diameter of 8.6mm. Keep up to date with all our art challenges and podcasts by signing up for our newsletter Which paper to use with Neocolor ii

Creating small details with your Neocolor Pastels

Raw sienna was added to the nearer bush and midnight blue for the darker areas and the cast shadow.

If you like watching more of a completed process here is a 14:45 minute speed video by JenW Fine Arts.Swiss manufacturer Caran D’Ache describes them as “wax oil pastel” with soft, velvety texture which does not does not crumble, ultra-high pigment concentration, superior covering power, luminous colors, and excellent light resistance. 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 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. 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. To review Caran D’Ache Neocolor II Aquarelle, I’d be remiss not to test its water solubility. I used the pastels dry first, depositing a moderate amount of pigment on Strathmore 400 series watercolour paper (cold pressed), before wetting it and turning it into watercolour.

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. With markers, I found that they are best used on top, after adding a “base” layer of marker underneath. You can start dark or light with the markers, the neocolours are so opaque that they easily show up over the markers. 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. 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

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. I hesitated to post these. But, you are here reading this for a review and examples, so it’s only fair that I show them. If I would have used less water, or a brush, things would have turned out differently. I scraped shavings of sky blue followed by moss green and olive brown into the nearer hillside then solubilised these shavings with a flat brush, which achieved a transition from a misty hilltop down into the group of trees below. 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. 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