Museum Aquarelle
Caran d'Ache
Museum AquarellE
Premium Quality Water soluble pencils
Museum Aquarelle pencils were engineered to behave like artist watercolour paint—inside a pencil. Caran d’Ache developed a highly soluble binder and packed each lead with extra-fine pigments, delivering washes that rival traditional pan or tube colours. Since launch, Museum Aquarelle has become a reference set for professional illustrators, plein-air painters and studio artists who want portable watercolour with uncompromising colour strength.
Why artists choose Museum Aquarelle?
Watercolour-level solubility:
Touch a wet brush to your marks and they dissolve instantly into luminous, even washes—no graining, no undissolved specks.
Exceptional pigment load:
Rich, saturated colour when used dry, with coverage comparable to top non-soluble pencils (e.g., Luminance).
Lightfast, archival tints:
Formulated for professional work that retains its vibrancy in gallery and portfolio conditions.
Versatile handling:
From hair-line detail and line-and-wash to bold, undiluted blocks and buttery gradients—all with one pencil.
Swiss-made precision:
Premium wood casing, smooth sharpening and consistent cores for dependable results on cotton watercolour papers and mixed-media stocks.
Many watercolour pencils look pale when activated. Museum Aquarelle delivers dense, painterly pools of colour thanks to an extra-fine pigment grind and a binder that fully releases colour into water.
Used dry, the pencils layer and burnish smoothly; used wet, they lift and glaze like traditional watercolour—perfect for portrait highlights, botanical veining, glass and metal reflections, feathers and fur.
