SKETCHBOOK TIME 7 ✷ My Top 16 Caran d'Ache Luminance Pencils ✷ Curating a Starter Colour Palette

Welcome back to another Sketchbook Time video! I've been asked a couple of times recently whether I would consider filming a video where I recommend a small collection of colours from the Caran d'Ache Luminance range that would be good for someone who is perhaps new to coloured pencils and would like to start building their own collection. Luminance pencils can be purchased individually (so far I've bought mine from Jackson's Art Supplies and PaperStory here in the UK), so here are my Top 16 pencils! As I mention in the video, these colours are my personal preference, and they work with the colour palette, style, and subject matter of my artwork. Each artist is different, and if you asked 100 artists to make their own palettes, each one would contain different shades! So please bear in mind that I'm speaking and advising from my own perspective. That being said, I hope that you enjoy this video even if your work is the polar opposite to mine! I think that it's always interesting to listen to the perspective of another artist, even if only to give us an insight into their process and decision making. Once I've swatched the different colours and talked to you about why I've included each one, I'll go on to make 'mini colour palettes' for different subjects using a few of the 16 colours each time, to show you how I would combine them in my work.

Here are the pencils I included in my collection: Dark Indigo, Sepia, Payne's Grey, Payne's Grey 30%, Light Cobalt Blue, Indanthrone Blue, Violet Grey, Burnt Sienna 50%, Burnt Sienna 10%, Dark Sap Green, Middle Verdigris, Light Malachite Green, Terracotta, Apricot, Herculanum Red, Brown Ochre 10%

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