Comments on: Felissimo 500 Color Pencils – 1st set

By: RoxyGirl

RoxyGirl — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:49:48 +0000

The pencil-tip colors, lovely; the names, imaginative, but after testing the first shipment of 25 blue pencils, I am sad to report the lay-down quality is dry. I cancelled & have not tested for light-fastness. I prefer: Derwent coloursoft or Prismacolor. I feel this is much more of a stylish gimmick than an art tool.

By: HarvestMoon

HarvestMoon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 18:37:13 +0000

thanks very much- I will go check it out!

By: penciladmin

penciladmin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:12:50 +0000

Hi HarvestMoon,

Regarding lightfastness – in response to queries from potential customers, I am happy to note that Felissimo has submitted some pencils to a laboratory for testing against JIS (A Japanese industrial standards organization) lightfastness standards. Some results have been published at the FAQ on the Felissimo site.

By: HarvestMoon

HarvestMoon — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:52:59 +0000

how well do these blend with other colored pencils? did you make a swatch and hang it in intense light to see if they fade? reds seem to fade the most….how do they compare with caran d’ache pencils, prismacolors, faber-castells, etc. in terms of softness? do the leads snap off a lot like prismacolors?

By: penciladmin

penciladmin — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:47:03 +0000

The original 1992 set? Or is there a way to buy the current set in person in NYC? If it’s the original set, I would try to get one or two thousand. For the new set, four or five hundred. But finding a market is the problem.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:29:52 +0000

A NYC Aunt gave my children a 500 different colors pencil set(20seperate cases of 25) each marked Felissimo from the felissimo color musuem. They are far too nice for my 6,4,3,and 1 yr old. What they are worth and how I could sell? I would love to put the money in my budding artists college fund?

By: penciladmin

penciladmin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:34:46 +0000

Kossy, I cannot disagree.

By: kossy

kossy — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:50:47 +0000

It was quite the same as the one of Japan though had thought the overseas specification.

By: penciladmin

penciladmin — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:53:23 +0000

Thank you Michael, I’m delighted to join the curriculum.

By: Michael Leddy

Michael Leddy — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:08:39 +0000

I recently looked at Margaret Atwood’s poem “You Begin” with a college freshman lit class — it’s a poem about the complexity of the world and our ability to put that complexity into words and images. The poem says something about the difficulty of representing the world with only “nine crayons” (limited means). I’m going to show my students your photographs of these pencils next week.

By: Xhakhal

Xhakhal — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:45:34 +0000

I wonder, are these wax- clay- or oil-based pencils? I’m thinking of subscribing to the set, but before I do, I’d like to know a little bit more about what goes into these pencils… and whether I’d have much use of them or not.
And even if they aren’t obvious in their make, how do they feel to write with? Do they come down smooth on smooth paper, or are they rough and grainy there too?

By: Kent

Kent — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:12:19 +0000

Oops, the price varies for different countries. 29 USD for shipping to Korea.