Caran dAche Classic Neocolor II Water-Soluble Pastels, 15 Colors

Love these watercolor crayons. Use with or without water and layer onto gessoed canvas and acrylic paints.

I love these! Best watersoluble crayons Ive tried. They blend really nice and the colors are very vibrant.

I read the reviews and watched the demos on utube so naturally I was really excited about getting them. Well that was a big waste of excitement. I found them much duller in color than inktense and I never could get any brilliance to come thru. It just looked anemic and faded. I had to go over them with inktense just to have some vibrancy. I just didn’t care for them and they’re so expensive I tried every way I knew how to make them work. Nope. Didn’t do it for me.

Love these crayons. I use them in my encaustic work. It is very easy to get a fine glaze look and subtle coloring

Need to locate the seemingly impossible-to-find color names and lightfastness ratings for this wonderful set of 84? Here goes. These 42 have 3 star lightfastness: white, silver grey, pale yellow, lemon yellow, canary yellow, yellow, Sahara yellow, flesh, apricot, pink salmon, fast orange, light cadmium red, alizarin crimson, Varonese green, jade green, chromium oxide green, grass green, bright green, Chinese green, light cobalt, sapphire, blue, Prussian blue, night blue, burnt sienna, English red, raw sienna, cinnamon, sepia, beige, grey, dark grey, black grey, charcoal, black, silver, gold, bronze. These 31 have 2 star lightfastness: golden yellow, orangish yellow, golden ocher, orange, flame red, scarlet, purple, purple violet, violet, lilac, mauve,aubergine, indigo, royal, ultramarine, cobalt blue, turquoise blue, turquoise green, emerald green, blue greenish, malachite, moss green, yellow green, lime, van dyke brown, light grey, olive black, toledo brown. These 11 are only 1 star lightfastness: pink, ruby, carmine, periwinkle, light olive green, ocher, russet, saffron, brown, raw umber.

Neat product just have to learn the ropes on using them

I am a true amateur, in an art group with very tolerant, much better artists. I have a low-grade set of regular watercolors, which I didnt enjoy much, and one of my group lent me a box of these. They are really fun! You can get a lot of effects from mixing techniques: you can water them down in the box top and paint normally, but you can also draw with them, and then use a wet brush to achieve a variety of effects. I recommend them highly, and my good artists also seem to like them a lot. Its an interesting concept. I ordered a set for my granddaughter, who likes drawing best but had never really tried watercolor, and she, too, loves them. Go for it.

My kiddo loves these for art projects. Easy to use and also great quality.

I love this set of neocolor 2 crayons. They arrived with a bonus of four fluorescent neocolor 1s which was a super treat. Just an observation: the packaging does not tell you exactly which colors you will be receiving in the set, and there were differently designed labels on the crayons - three or four different iterations of the labels (redesigns). The product is authentic, and I didnt mind the different labels from various releases. But what I gather from this is that the colors that are featured in the 40 set can vary depending on what they have in stock at the factory. Not a big deal to me, no colors are repeated, and everything is the authentic product that I love-- but its just a random fact of note.

Above.