Cretacolor Artists Sketching Pencil Set 7pc

This set of fine art drawing pencils from Cretacolor include a range of textures and shades for layered work.

Selected to inspire the artist and approach drawing in nature, landscapes or portraiture. The pastel pencils Sepia and Sanguine combine perfectly with charcoal, and white chalk.

Features:

• 5 Pencils - 1 x Charcoal Pencil Soft, 1 x Charcoal Pencil Hard, 1 x Sanguine Pencil (dry), 1 x Sepia Pencil Dark (dry), 1 x White Chalk Pencil Soft (dry)

• 1 x Kneadable Eraser

• 1 x Pencil Sharpener

• Pencils produce a smudge proof stroke that is water resistant

• Perfect for the student and professional alike

• Set is designed to inspire each artist to creatively approach their artwork

*Please note, pencils should be knife sharpened for best results. Regular pencil sharpeners can cause them to chip and break.

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.