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DALER ROWNEY
Daler Rowney are one of the largest UK art materials suppliers, and as such, make their products available through most art retailers in the UK.
A few years ago, they ceased marketing Derwent pencils and introduced a line of watercolour pencils of their own to their materials range . These are sold as sets, with the full set numbering 36 colours.
They advertise them as having the same pigments as their watercolours.
They are not a major player in the pencil market and as they have not responded to a request for a sample, I have not seen fit to buy a box just to test them, I cannot comment on their standard.
I would expect them to have quality ingredients and behave well, but the colour range is small and there are such a wide selection of alternatives on the market that I would tend to look elsewhere.
I believe that they are probably manufactured in Europe by a major pencil manufacturer and the Pastel pencils which Daler Rowney also market have a number of similarities to the Cretacolour Pastel Pencils, though the colour range is not the same
( and Cretacolour have a bigger colour range anyway). My own feeling is that pencils only sold in sets are not a good buy as colours cannot be replaced easily when they are used up.
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Coloured Pencil BRANDS
LIGHTFASTNESS of pencils 1 and LIGHTFASTNESS 2 ( some test5s carried out in strong sunlight by a reader
PRICE & CONTENT of Coloured Pencils : COLOUR COMPARISONS between brands :
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