Supplementing Prismacolor with Castle Arts Pasteltint & Harmonious Pencils

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[@carlahamilton385]

Yes, Claire. Please do a chart for Polys. I usually supplement them with Pasteltint or Brutfuner Macarons to get some lighter values.

[@jamie6360]

I was gonna ask if any other pastel sets would work for this.

[@KathiKucera-uk8hc]

Thank you so much for this additional chart ✨ it would be perfect to have the same resource for the polychromos ✨ again it was a pleasure to watch you doing your colour blends...

[@robynbroderick6822]

Yes please Claire. Polychromos with the Castle Arts. Wonderful idea 💕💕

[@Jgilmer42]

I have both. Would love to see a video with these two brands. ❤❤❤

[@kathleenh6642]

YES PLEASE....Thank you for sharing your amazing charts, color combinations, and your time. I appreciate all you give.

[@robynbroderick6822]

Wonderful Claire. Thankyou so much for your excellent colour blend chart.Thankyou💕💕💕

[@christensenjen6029]

Please do this for more pencils sets. It’s such good information and really help us newer colorist see how we can better use our pencils. You are an awesome teacher. Thank you!

[@vishneva2000]

Super blends. Thank you. And I didn't find it repetitive because I love hearing about colors and their qualities. I tend to work within one set at a time, mainly so my head doesn't explode, but I think it's so valuable to see color charts that mix brands up so we get more out of them, especially with standalone pastel or gray-toned sets.

[@colouringchemist]

This is fantastic, Claire - thank you for doing all this work and for offering your chart! :)

[@romannunez9176]

I bought both the pastel & harmonious sets, I love both pencil sets and have really explored colors that I would have never used before. When I look at them next to my other Castle Arts sets it helps me better understand saturation. I have added this video to my favorite collection because the swatch you made was amazing. Thanks Claire

[@AnneMarieSelby]

Love this so much! Castle Arts should put you on their sales team, because I have held off this long on buying the Harmonious set, but after watching this, I just ordered them!

[@sherrina75]

How on earth do I see nothing from you for a little while, see your Dark Fairytale video from Kirby, then see this AS you upload?! Love it. Love your stuff Claire! Edit to add: I have never been brave enough to mix brands, but you have convinced me to try mixing brands. Have you found that there is a particular set of brands that mix or blend better than others? It's fantastic to be able to extend my Prismacolours by supplementing them with another brand, I am going to have to order some Castle pencils. Thank you for doing these videos :)

[@ColourwithClaire]

@@sherrina75 I don’t know, did you press the notification bell? X

[@sherrina75]

@@ColourwithClaire No I just happened to be looking as it uploaded! It's lovely to have your reply

[@ColourwithClaire]

@@sherrina75 thank you so much! ❤️

[@kellyb1765]

Can we have a combined family colour chart with all 3 sets 😁🙏 xx

[@krissykolorjunki5304]

Thank you for creating this chart! I have all of the Castle Arts sets including the Metallic (which aren't really very metallic) and Harmonious and had put ALL into one huge pencil case as I think of them as one set of 288 colors! But I hadn't thought to combine with Prismacolor or Polychromos. I really enjoy the Harmonious set as it reminds me of the Tombow Irojiten 100 set as having "colors" that I didn't see in most "Western" made pencil sets. I'm excited to see what your detailed color eye creates next!

[@panditwright2899]

You are always informative, creative and expert! Thank you for sharing your curiosity and your research. Love your book flip throughs as well because you usually do a page or two before the big reveal 🙂

[@moniquekwant1356]

Oh, this is really wonderful! The Harmonious set is yet finally for sale in the Netherlands, so I ordered them. Wanted these for a while now. And yes please, I would love to see a chart combined with the polychromos😍

[@jsscraphappy]

Always love your videos, especially lends-thanks for the video and the chart!

[@Wilcoxmomma1103]

Such a good video. I’ve never had any castle art color pencils , but these two have been on my radar since the harmonies set came out. I have a hard time using my different brands together in one combo. I should probably work on that . I have your color chart and I telll everyone about it. It’s so helpful. Especially when I was more of a beginner and trying to figure out combos and prismas themselves. Such a good tool to have. And I should probably re do it, because my goodness, it’s well loved, and it shows 😅 I think it would be worth the experiment to do a a video using polys in this way ❤ Thank you so much for sharing more priceless information with us ❤

[@bettykemp7122]

This is so absolutely what I needed to see I have all three sets and now I can finally see how to use them together. Thank you so much!

[@cheryldodge5126]

This was so interesting Claire. I own all the sets you have used and able to expand your options. I am looking forward to using these 21 combos. Thank you Claire Perfect!😊

[@NessaWolfeMuller]

This is brilliant! ❤❤❤

[@toni-6790]

Just bought the Harmonious too. Would love to see your take on mixing them with the Polychromos! Thanks for all you do and share! 😊

[@bunnyhand1]

Oh, please do a chart for Polychromos. This was a wonderful video!!!❤

[@anikrossignol8809]

Wow, this is a super resource Claire!! Thank you for sharing your talent and expertise with all of us! God bless you 🫶🏻🙏🏻

[@janettedelbarre913]

Wow, how fabulous to see u do this, thank u. I would love a chart too!!

[@jamie6360]

Love your vidoes too they are always different than anyone elses!

[@ColourwithClaire]

@@jamie6360 aww thank you!

[@sabsol3]

Every video you do, is so helpful, and amazing. Thank you 🙏🏽 very much

[@suewilkinson910]

Fantastic work Claire. I hadn't thought about doing it with Prismas, I want to do it for Polys for exactly the reasons you said. And I also think the Harmonious will work well with the Polys, they are different shades. Polys are a favourite pencil, but sorely lacking in the lighter tints and darker desaturated colours. People are going to love this! Hope you and your family are doing well. Your boys must be getting big now.

[@ColourwithClaire]

@@suewilkinson910 almost 19 and 16! Crazy cx

[@suewilkinson910]

@ Really?! That’s mad. They were just young boys a year or two ago.

[@SashaColors704]

thank you so much! This is great - I don't have Harmonious but I'm excited to try this with the pastletints I have

[@katecurrie7499]

My goodness Claire, how did you learn all this about colour. A fabulous informative video. I have Prisma and the pasteltint pencils but decided against the new Harmony, thinking I didn't need them, although the colours and beautiful, but perhaps I do need them. I tend not to mix my different pencils, probably don't know how to really. You on the other hand are an amazing colourist, so thank you so much for your inspiration 💖

[@Bambookat8]

Love this! I often forget about my pateltints. I will definitely be pulling them out to use with my prismas more 🎉

[@annieanplandu4224]

Thank youClaire i bought the harmonious for that reason, the polys don't have any pastel shades, and I use them together. I would love you to do a chart it would be amazing x

[@debbieball5446]

Thank you Claire. Found this video very useful.

[@leahmommy7711]

What a wonderful video, very helpful and fun. I would love to see this done with the polys as well. Thanks Claire 😊

[@sabrinaadams30]

Thank you for sharing this I now know how to use my Harmonious Colored Pencil 😊

[@NoreenMalyan]

Hi Claire, please if you have the time can you do a video of Polychromos pencils with the Castle Art ones. Living in the UK it is difficult and expensive to purchase Prisma pencils so I never bought them - have invested in Polychromos instead. Thank you

[@LuthienDo]

Would love a video with Polychromos as Prismas are a bit hard to get here and I struggle combining my Polys with the Castle Arts.

[@cindyfromsydney7693]

Those are very pretty!

[@MissAnthropy143]

This is fantastic! I tend to just use one set of pencils per page, which is ridiculous. I have the 3 sets you used here, but I also have Polys, so I'd love a video for that, too. I already use your color families, so this is a nice addition. Thank you! 💜

[@leemaymoh3887]

This is so cool!! I just got my harmonious set so this is super helpful!! Thank you 😊

[@Colourmad314]

I have both of these sets and have used them well…..but not using Prismacolor. I am using these with Polychromos, Procolour and Chromaflow sets. Preferring to layer, on Kerby Rosanes work nicely. Dark Fairytales the Harmonious set will be a revelation ❤xx

[@kaleidoscopiccolours]

Hi Claire. I'd love to see you combine the Pasteltint and Harmonious sets with the Polychromos pencils. I've often wondered how they'd work together.

[@janeteggleston4764]

Hope you do one with polys. Love what you showed today.

[@Disneyandcoloringwithjamie]

Great Video

[@puckettrita75]

Love this. Thank you

[@lorakennedy5333]

Would like to see a video on blending the HA set with the Polys.

[@DaringGr8Leigh]

Thank you so much for this!

[@christinescoloringandcrafts]

I really had no interest in the harmonious set until now. WOW. Thank you for sharing.

[@kirstendecoster3201]

Hi, great blends, thanks! I've only used mine in combination with Polychromos and not with prismacolors because I thought it would be hard to blend.

[@isobelmoore7025]

Fantastic video thank you! I cant see a link to download the chart? Only a link for the castle arts website.. anyway the HA colours are my absolute favourites. They really elevated my colouring. I got them to go with my long time used arteza colours before getting a second hand set of 72 prismas. Then I got the pastel set which is great because they’ve got all the warmer colours to the HA set. Harmonious indeed! Yes for the polys ☺️ I reordered all my brands together in the best colour order I could achieve so I’ve used all of them plus polys and some others together too. Its not a swatch chart without it being messed up somewhere let’s be honest haha

[@ColourwithClaire]

Just added! Forgot of course 🙈

[@isobelmoore7025]

@@ColourwithClairehahaha no worries!

[@mariaglassman4832]

Thanks Claire ❤

[@ellenscofield6952]

You just cost me more money. LOL. Love this.

[@tammygeorge1638]

They look amazing! I've got all the original CAP! I've been curious if the newer sets they have been coming out with are the same as the original! Meaning in the way they blend and color with in general! I've found in the ARRTX pencils! The lightest green and orange they have are pretty amazing! I'm sure you have the set of them! As getting more pencils! Just what you needed!🤷🤣😂🤣😂🫣🤭🤭🤷. LoL. Just kidding! You know we never have enough of them when it comes down to it! I was thinking of the colors in the set of glitter and metallic pens in the Color IT, sets.made me think of them when you were talking about the pink colors! Color IT! Really have some beautiful colored gel pens! Ummm 🤔 I don't know if you have any of there gel pens, it's been so long since they came out with them and I'm not sure if you have ever done a video on them. Anyhoo! Great video! Great information! Thank you for sharing! ❤️‍🔥🤗🙋👍💐👋👋🤪. PS! Hopefully you got a chance to look into those movies!🤷🤔❤️‍🔥🤗🙋👍

[@waymire01]

The Brutfuner macarons are much nicer than the pasteltints, and less than half the price, for the same colors. I'm rather surprised they haven't released a "harmonious" set yet. Both the pasteltint and the macaron are dupes for Holbein, so if you want just those colors in the blends you can buy the open stock. I now wonder if there are any of the harmonious colors in Holbein. I had the macarons in with my polys for a long time, they get along just fine. I eventually pulled them out, since they are not available open stock, and put a selection of prisma in with them instead. That is now my favorite dry pencil set I own, and my most used. The "gold standard" would be to add those few holbeins that are even lighter, which I have considered but never gotten around to.. I find with prisma white I really don't need them, it's so creamy and pigmented I can tint colors with no issue. I have no idea why Faber hasn't put out lighter shades in the polys.. except for the fact they are designed to be layered and therefore don't need them if used in that manner. They did have a pastel set of Goldfabers, and you can still find them floating around online.. and from what I can tell there used to be lighter shades in the Albrecht Durer as well, that have since been discontinued. For anyone interested Karen Valentine (not a colorist, a colored pencil artist) has a master swatch sheet on her Kofi.. she combines all her artist quality brands together by rough color family.. so you can see not only Holbein but Lightfast, Pablo, etc as well to find those "different" colors within the brands. I refer to it often.

[@lisakaye75]

Claire you are brilliant for doing this. I love the Prismacolor pencil selection, but often wish for a lighter tint to some of them. I don't own these Castle arts pencils, but now I want to. Are Castle Art pencils available open stock? And yes please to a Polychromos match with Castle Arts. Thanks again. You have such a keen eye for detecting color tints, hues and values. ❤❤

[@ColourwithClaire]

They don’t unfortunately xx

[@shannonlowery131]

Yes please do the polychromos I would be interested in seeing what happens.

[@diamondpainting_clare3528]

Im new to pencils so this all goes over my head. I know some vary in price but thats about it 😂 xx

[@Lynnthedragonquester]

Hmmmmm, wonder how similar the pastel tint are similar to the brutfuner macarons. Never thought of using them as lighter shades of my prismas ( even if any are as close as these).

[@i2wkd4blu]

I would love to see a polychromos combination video please

[@loopyfrog]

I love seeing your blends! Since the Castle Arts blend so well with the Pasteltints, do you think they would also blend with Derwent Chromaflow? Thanks so much Claire

[@ColourwithClaire]

@@loopyfrog I bet they would ◡̈

[@loopyfrog]

P.S. I love to see different brands and how they work together

[@loopyfrog]

@ thankyou, much appreciated 🙂

[@deborahjane68]

I have the 120 set of castle arts my 1st lot of pencils. Are these the same do you no. Take care lovely x

[@ColourwithClaire]

@@deborahjane68 not the same colours no xx

[@Colourmad314]

I have both of these sets and have used them well…..but not using Prismacolor means trying to follow suggestions again using another brand is pointless……I am using these with Polychromos, Procolour and Chromaflow sets. Preferring to layer than smear, these on Kerby Rosanes work nicely.

[@tracienielson7183]

I've seen several Castle Arts sets like Pasteltint, Urban, Botanical, etc. Does anyone know if these colors are in the 120 set?

[@waymire01]

All the small sets (urban, botanical, etc) are directly from the soft touch 120. The pasteltints and harmonious are different although there are quite a few similar shades in the pasteltints and the 120. There are also unique shades in their gold set. The pasteltints and harmonious are a different white labeled pencil than the standard soft touch or gold from Castle Arts.

[@illacoloring4832]

Yes Claire Please do so with Polychromos 😊

[@oxanags9202]

I combine my FC with DW Lightfast pencils. Although the LF are softer, they "fuse" very well with Polys, as they are both oil based (and professional grade). I relegated my Pasteltints to be used with cheaper brands, like Arteza or Castle Art originals. But after watching your video, I might reconsider and give them some love, :). I tried to blend Prismas with Brutfuner Macarons, because they are soft as well. Works fine on small areas, but on bigger ones there is a definitive dividing line, because the composition of the pigments differs. Great video, as always. Please do the next with FC Polychromos (and/ or Polys and LF, 😛). Hugs from Spain.

[@cheryl6716]

Beautiful color blends with the various brands of pencils. Are the Castle Art pencils available to buy open stock? If you mentioned this and I missed it I apologize, I was eating sourdough toast while watching your video and it was quite loud and crunchy, lol.

[@ColourwithClaire]

Not that I know of x

[@tucoerquilenne6765]

Do the Castle Arts work well on Kirby or Johanna books ?

[@kenzielogic9405]

I use Castle Arts exclusively in my Johanna Small Victories and they blend like a dream. Granted, I've never worked with Prisma or Poly, so I can't compare to them. But as far as the Castles working in Johanna, they absolutely do and look beautiful.