Acceptable Products for International Exhibition

Below is a list of colored pencil products acceptable for use in the CPSA International Exhibition.

Since new products are constantly being introduced, please understand this may not be a complete list.  If you have an eligibility question about a product that is not listed here, please contact the Exhibition director at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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WAX AND OIL-BASED

• Blick Studio Artists'
• Bruynzeel Design Fullcolor (disc.)
• Caran d’Ache Luminance 6901
• Caran d’Ache Pablo
• Conte Couleur d'Art (disc.)
• Crayola Colored Pencils
• Crayola Erasable Colored Pencils
• Crayola Extreme Colors Colored Pencils
• Crayola Metallic Colored Pencils
• Crayola Multicultural Colored Pencils
• Crayola Short Colored Pencils
• Cretacolor Karmina
• Derwent Artist Series (sets only in US)
• Derwent Coloursoft
• Derwent Drawing
• Derwent Lakeland (all types)
• Derwent Signature (disc.)
• Derwent Studio
• Dixon Ticonderoga Core Lock (disc.)
• Eberhard Faber Design Spectracolor (disc.)
• Faber-Castell Art Grip
• Faber-Castell EcoPencils (Max and Jumbo Triangular)
• Faber-Castell Polychromos
• Faber-Castell Red Line Metallic
• Fantasia Premium Artist
• Felissimo Colored Pencils
• General Pencil Color-Tex
• General Pencil MultiChrome
• General Pencil Scribe All
• Graphite (used under & between layers of cp)
• Koh-I-noor Astra Neon
• Koh-I-noor MagicFX
• Koh-I-Noor Polycolor
• Koh-I-Noor Triocolor
• Liqui-mark Colored Pencils
• Liqui-mark Metallic Colored Pencils
• Lyra Color Giants (regular, neon, metallic, skin-tones)
• Lyra ColorStripe
• Lyra Ferby, Super Ferby and Ferby 4-color
• Lyra Groove and Groove Slim
• Lyra Rembrandt Polycolor
• Lyra Waldorf Selection
• Pantone Universe Colored Pencils
• Pentel Arts Colored Pencils
• Marshall Retouch Oil Pencil
• Prang Colored Pencils (regular and triangular)
• Prismacolor Col-Erase (formerly Venus & Eberhard Faber)
• Prismacolor Premier
• Prismacolor Premier Lightfast (disc.)
• Prismacolor Scholar Art Pencils
• Prismacolor Verithins
• Raffine Colored Pencils
• Reeves Colored Pencils
• Royal Talens Van Gogh (disc.)
• Soho Urban Artist Colored Pencils
• Stabilo Color
• Stabilo Softcolor (disc.)
• Stabilo GREENcolor
• Stabilo Original
• Stabilo Trio and Trio Thick
• Staedtler Ergosoft and Ergosoft Jumbo
• Staedler Noris Club (Classic, Jumbo, Super Jumbo)
• Tombow Irojiten
• Utrecht Premium Colored Pencils
• Walnut Hollow Oil Pencils (disc.)

 

WATER-SOLUBLE

• Bruynzeel Design Aquarell (disc.)
• Caran d’Ache Supracolor Aquarelle
• Crayola Watercolor Pencils
• Cretacolor Marino
• Daler-Rowney Artists'
• Derwent Graphitint (used as graphite)
• Derwent Inktense
• Derwent Lakeland water-soluble
• Derwent Metallic
• Derwent Signature Watercolor (disc.)
• Derwent Watercolour
• Eberhard Faber Design (disc.)
• Faber-Castell Art Grip Aquarelle
• Faber-Castell Albrecht Durer
• Faber-Castell Red Line Watercolor
• Fantasia Premium Watercolor
• General Kimberley Watercolor
• General Pencil Scribe All
• Koh-I-Noor Mondeluz Aquarell
• Lyra Osiris water-soluble
• Lyra Rembrandt Aquarell
• Prismacolor Watercolor
• Raffine Watercolor
• Reeves Watercolor
• Royal Talens Van Gogh Aquarelle (disc.)
• Sargent Watercolor
• Stabilo Aquacolor
• Staedtler Ergosoft Aquarelle
• Staedtler Karat Aquarelle
• Water-soluble graphite pencils (to be used under or in-between layers of cp)

 

WOODLESS - Wax and Oil-Based

• Crayola Color Sticks
• Koh-I-Noor Progresso Woodless
• Lyra Pure Color Woodless (disc.)
• Prismacolor ArtStix

 

WOODLESS - Water-Soluble

• Caran D'Ache Museum Watercolor Leads
• Cretacolor AquaMonolith Woodless Watercolor
• Derwent Aquatones
• Derwent Inktense Blocks