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The Caran d’Ache Museum Aquarelle and Holbein Watercolor pencils are similar aesthetically speaking, both pencils sporting hexagonal barrels with the Holbein barrel weighing in at 7.4mm and the Caran d’Ache barrel slightly bigger at 7.6mm. The cores of both pencils are approximately 4.1mm, a hugely generous core given the quality of pigments held within each core.
I have also used Holbein’s watercolour tubes and again, their quality is excellent, with consistent lightfast ratings and strong pigmentation throughout. For the longest time I always wonder why Holbein had never produced a set of watercolour pencils to the same standard as their watercolour tubes or pans and their Holbein Colored Pencils.
I love trying to put together these comparison articles and videos, I find it therapeutic trying to analyse each product and then compare against the other products. For this analytical comparison, we are looking at the Caran d’Ache Pablo Colored Pencils, Faber Castell Polychromos Colored Pencils and the Holbein Colored Pencils.
Colored pencil artists, pastel artist and perhaps many other types of artists, are always on the lookout for the best, most opaque, white colored pencil, pastel pencil or whatever medium you are using. It seems, that everyone is seeking for the Holly-Grail of white opaque application, especially for colored pencil artists given the method of layering etc
