Sketching Pencils

An ever expanding section featuring many of Cretacolor's most popular sketching pencils.

Cretacolor Artist's Leads

A range solid leads which used with a holder are ideal for sketching and drawing.

Here we offer a growing range of the most popular leads, holders and accessories.

Karmina Fine Art Water Resistant Pencils

A selection of water resistant pencils in intense and vibrant colours with a soft rich stroke. These pencils can be mixed by layering over different colours.

Marino Fine Art Watercolor Pencils

Fine art quality pencils in brilliant colours with a soft core giving a rich stroke. Colours can be mixed with one another by adding water to achieve smooth contours and colour transitions.

Colours fully tested for lightfastness.

Cretacolor Artists' Powders

These pure artists' powders are especially suitable for large surface drawings, three-dimensional working and working out of light and shadow. They can also be mixed with water or a binding agent.

Cretacolor Accessories

In this section we offer many of the best accessories offered by Cretacolor.

Cretacolor Pastel Carre

These unburnt, square shaped pastels guarantee brilliant colours due to their high pigmentation and exceptional lightfastness. They produce a velvet soft, oil free stroke.

For now we are offering some sets of Cretacolor's Pastel Carres but we expect to expand this over the next few months.

Cretacolor Art Chunky

Oil free coloured charcoal sticks which at 18mm are chunky enough to cover large areas with ease. Water soluble these can be mixed with other charcoals and pastel to create a variety of washes, effects and textures.

Cretacolor Pastel Pencils

Precise and exact - Cretacolor Pastel Pencils are the perfect choice for all detail work in pastel. These are essentially the Pastel carré hard pastels in pencil form, with the same brilliance and lightfastness. The advantage of the pencils is that they can be sharpened to a point for fine details. Like the Pastel carré, all 72 colors can be mixed and smudged.