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Caran d’Ache Supracolor coloured pencils – a closer look

18 November 2019 by Louise

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The Caran d’Ache Supracolor watercolour pencil range has the same colours as the oil-based Caran d’Ache Pablo coloured pencil range.

However, while the colours are the same, when drawn on a white paper swatch, the Supracolor colours can vary from the Pablo colours. Particularly so when water is added to the Supracolor swatch, which provides vibrant colour.

You can see the colours of the Pablo range that were outlined in another post.

Check out this course by artist Carole Massey if you want to find out how to use watercolour pencils.

Also, this Caran d’Ache video shows how you can use these two pencil types.

How this post can help you

Like the Pablo coloured pencil post, this post will help you save your time and energy. It will show you what colour family colours and neutral colours are included in the Supracolor coloured pencil range. Use this post together with our post on colour harmonies to help you choose the colours of your next artwork.

This range of pencils, along with the Caran d’Ache Pablo coloured pencil range are amongst my favourite pencils. You can use this post to help you create your next artwork.

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Link to coloured pencil comparison charts

Caran d’Ache Supracolor coloured pencil colours

This post has images of hand-drawn colour swatches for each pencil in the range.

Please note that the metallic pencil colour Bronze is a red-orange colour when drawn on a white paper swatch. Therefore, it is included in the red-orange colour family. You can refer to this disclaimer to see how the analysis was done to decide on colour pencil colours.

The Colour Wheel Clock

The colour wheel moves clock-wise around the wheel. The table below shows the colour family positions on the clock.

Clock Position Colour Family
12.00 Red
1.00 Red-Orange
2.00 Orange
3.00 Orange-Yellow
4.00 Yellow
5.00 Yellow-Green
6.00 Green
7.00 Green-Blue
8.00 Blue
9.00 Blue-Violet
10.00 Violet
11.00 Violet-Red
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Caran d’Ache Supracolor colour wheel colours

Of the colour wheel colours, the make up of each is outlined below. While the colours are of varying shades and tones, the predominant base colour belongs to the colour wheel family in which it has been placed.

Red – 12 o’clock

Starting with red at the 12.00 o’clock position, the image below shows the red colour family pencils available in the 120 coloured pencil set.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Red - Artnitso.com

Red-Orange – 1.00 o’clock

The next colour family group is red-orange at 1.00 o’clock. Please note that this group includes one metallic pencil Bronze. This is because the colour swatch showed it to belong to the red-orange family and not a metallic colour family.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Red-Orange - Artnitso.com

Orange – 2.00 o’clock

The next colour is orange at 2.00 o’clock. The coloured pencil set of 120 includes 5 orange colour family pencils.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Orange - Artnitso.com

Orange-Yellow – 3.00 o’clock

Orange-Yellow sits at the 3.00 o’clock position.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Orange-Yellow - Artnitso.com

Yellow – 4.00 o’clock

At 4.00 o’clock sits Yellow.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Yellow - Artnitso.com

Yellow-Green – 5.00 o’clock

Yellow-Green sits at 5.00 o’clock.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Yellow-Green - Artnitso.com

Green – 6.00 o’clock

The colour family of green sits at 6.00 o’clock.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Green - Artnitso.com

Green-blue – 7.00 o’clock

Green-blue sits at the 7.00 o’clock position.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Green-Blue - Artnitso.com

Blue – 8.00 o’clock

Blue is at the 8.00 o’clock position.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Blue - Artnitso.com

Blue-Violet – 9.00 o’clock

Blue-violet sits at 9.00 o’clock.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Blue-Violet - Artnitso.com

Violet – 10.00 o’clock

Violet sits at the 10.00 o’clock position.

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Violet-Red – 11.00 o’clock

Violet-Red sits at the 11.00 o’clock position.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Violet-Red - Artnitso.com

Supracolor Colour wheel colour family – Summary

As you can see from the above images, the Caran d’Ache Supracolor Coloured pencil range has pencils in all the colour family colours.

Now let’s look at the neutral and metallic colours in the 120 Caran d’Ache Supracolor set of coloured pencils.

Supracolor’s Neutral Colours

The breakdown of these pencils are as follows.

First there are the 2 metallic colours. Please note that the metallic pencil Bronze, is included in the red-orange colour group.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Metallics - Artnitso.com

Next are the neutral-black pencils.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Neutral-Black - Artnitso.com

Next is neutral-warm grey.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Neutral-Warm Grey - Artnitso.com

Next is neutral-warm brown.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Neutral-Warm Brown - Artnitso.com

Neutral-warm beige.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Neutral-Warm Beige - Artnitso.com

Neutral-cool grey follows.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Neutral-Cool Grey - Artnitso.com

Next is neutral-cool brown.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Neutral-Cool Brown - Artnitso.com

Neutral-cool beige follows.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Neutral-Cool Beige - Artnitso.com

Finally, white is the final neutral colour.

Caran d'Ache Supracolor Neutral-White - Artnitso.com

As you can see, the Caran d’Ache Supracolor coloured pencil set and range is made up of a variety of colours and neutrals.

As noted above, the selection is subjective and the reviewer has chosen colour by looking at the actual physical coloured pencil swatches. Nevertheless, you may find that particular colours belong in different groups or colour families.

Lightfastness

Of the 120 set of coloured pencils, 7 have the lowest lightfast rating of *, 68 coloured pencils have a lightfast rating of **, and 45 have the highest lightfast rating of ***.

Only have a few pencils?

If you’d like to try this range of pencils, you can try a basic set of 12. We have analysed this set of pencils, and provide colour swatches, and the colour recipes of 144 colours that you can make from this set of pencils. You can see the 144 Supracolor colour recipes here.

Make your own colour chart

For your knowledge, it’s advisable to draw up your own colour chart so you can get to know the actual colours of your coloured pencils. You will then see how your pencil perfoms on the papers that you use for your drawings.

Supracolor Interactive colour chart

To help you with this, we created a slim interactive colour chart so you can quickly search and sort these pencils. You can sort these pencil by pencil name, number, and lightfast rating. You can also see their individual colour swatches.

Join our email list to access a library of slim interactive colour charts (including for Supracolor pencils).


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This post was originally published in 2019, updated on 19 November 2019, 20 January 2021, and last updated on 16 August 2021.

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