Cretacolor Artist Studio 101 Drawing Set 11pc

This Artist foundation drawing and sketching set includes the quintessential tools needed for all drawing classes, ideal for beginners or advanced artists. The pencils are excellent for detailed work, as they can be sharpened to a point.

The quality of the pigment produces high lightfastness, for lasting brilliance.

The origins of Cretacolor date back to Vienna, Austria in 1790 when the graphite pencil was invented by the company's original founder, Joseph Hardtmuth.

The Cretacolor 101 introductory drawing set, contains a selection of graphite, charcoal, chalk and oil pencils.

Features:

• 3 x Graphite Pencils (HB, 2B, 4B)

• 1 x Extra Soft Oil Charcoal Pencil

• 1 x White Chalk Pencil

• 1 x Sanguine Pencil

• 1 x Sepia Pencil

• 3 x Charcoal Pencils (soft, medium, hard) 

• 1 x Paper Blending Stump.

About the Brand

In 1863, the manufacturer Carl Brevillier founded the Zeus pencil factory in Vienna, which made writing and drawing accessible to a large public. The fortune for this came from the industrial production of screws and wagons for railroads. But Carl Brevillier found his true calling in art. Since the writing tools of the time, such as nibs and pencils, were mainly handmade and mostly of poor quality and very expensive, his goal was to create high-quality tools for people who write or draw.

This ultimately also made it possible to inspire those people for art who until then could not afford art materials. This was another important contribution to the development of the modern Brevillier pencil.

Since the end of the 1990s, Hans Wolfgang Hromatka has continued the tradition of this historic brand under the name CRETACOLOR. By purchasing the Hirm pencil factory in 1996, the passionate collector of old pencils succeeded in combining his passion and his field of work, thus preventing the closure of the company.
With the takeover of Brevillier-Urban in 2008, the company that upheld the tradition of the old Carl Brevillier pencil factory, Hans Wolfgang Hromatka acquired the know-how to produce artists' pencils even more efficiently. At his request, the name Brevillier was integrated into the CRETACOLOR brand logo, and the company Brevillier Urban & Sachs was born.