This is the box that built Luminance's reputation. Seventy six colours, the classic Luminance palette that coloured pencil artists all over the world measure everything else against, plus two Full Blenders to melt your layers together. Creamy, permanent, ridiculously lightfast, and laid out in a box you will want to keep on the desk where everyone can see it.

What You Get in the Box of 76

Seventy six colours gives you everything a working coloured pencil artist needs: full warm and cool families, deep darks, delicate tints, a strong run of skin tones and the earths and greys that make realism believable. It is the palette most Luminance artists built their practice on before the range grew to 100.

The two Full Blenders are the secret weapon. They are a colourless oil and wax based medium in pencil form, so you can soften and fuse layers without adding colour. Go over a burnished area and the paper texture disappears into something that looks painted.

The Caran d'Ache Difference: Swiss Made Since 1915

Caran d'Ache has made drawing tools in Geneva for more than a century, and they still make them the slow way, in their own Swiss workshops at Thônex just outside the city. Not outsourced, not rebadged, not made wherever is cheapest this year. Every Luminance pencil is designed and made in Switzerland, from the pigment-rich lead to the FSC certified cedar that wraps it.

It is still a family company too. The Hübscher family has led Caran d'Ache since the 1930s, and today Carole Hübscher runs it as the fourth generation. That continuity is why the quality does not wobble from batch to batch. The Luminance pencil you buy this year lays down exactly like the one you bought five years ago, which matters when you are matching colours across a body of work.

This is the company that launched Prismalo in 1931, the world's first watercolour pencil, so coloured pencils are not a side line for them, they are the whole point. Luminance is their flagship, the pencil they put their name to for professional, archival work. We have stocked Caran d'Ache at Art Shed Brisbane for years, and Luminance is the pencil our coloured pencil artists save up for.

Why Professional Artists Choose Luminance

• Lightfastness you can prove. Made to ASTM D-6901 with every colour rated LFI or LFII. Your originals and commissions keep their colour.
• A lead that does the work. Creamy and pigment rich, so colour goes down in fewer layers and burnishes to a painterly finish.
• Colour you can find again. Every barrel matches its lead and carries the colour name and number, so reordering is easy.
• Responsibly made. FSC certified cedar, designed and made in Switzerland.
• Open stock. Every colour is sold individually, so your box never has to run out.

Getting the Most Out of Luminance

Start with light pressure and build gradually. Luminance's creamy lead layers beautifully, but the first layers should be gentle so the paper tooth can take more colour later.

Burnish your final layers with a light colour or a Full Blender for a smooth, glowing finish, then add crisp details on top. A Caran d'Ache pencil blender is handy for small areas.

Want to underpaint first? Lay a wash with water soluble media like Neocolor II, let it dry completely, then build detail with Luminance.

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