CREATE THE PERFECT PORTRAIT WITH EASE! This *special edition* ‘Portrait collection’ features ‘24 hand-picked, premium coloured pencils’ selected to help artists easily capture inspiring Portraits.  Whether you prefer delicate, detailed features, or have a more expressionistic style, these pencils will deliver either, with ease!  The rich, velvety cores are highly pigmented, lay down colour beautifully and are perfect for artists with a passion for Portraiture.  Inspired by the pallets of renowned artists, we’ve created a range of coloured pencils that will help you capture and convey the character of your subject perfectly.  Create an inspiring Portrait today with this ‘must have’ set of premium quality coloured pencils. 

BLEND & LAYER TO ACHIEVE BEAUTIFUL SKIN TONES.  We understand the importance (and challenge) of achieving realistic skin tones within your portraiture work.  Tried and tested by thousands of Castle artists, you can really rely on these top-quality pencils featuring strong 3.3mm centred cores!  They sharpen to a perfect point for the finest of features and blend beautifully to add depth and character allowing Portrait artists to create engaging art work within this popular genre.

THE PERFECT GIFT FOR PORTRAIT LOVERS!  This enviable selection of premium quality coloured pencils is beautifully presented in a *Special Edition* Tin Box featuring an original illustration of a female study.  And for those artists inspired to create their first portrait, we’ve included a handy tutorial which gives you a step-by-step guide to the perfect Portrait.  We can’t wait to see the results!

CONVENIENT, LIGHT & STURDY FOR ‘ART ANYWHERE’!  This lightweight and compact set of 24 top quality pencils travels perfectly giving artists the convenience and freedom to capture a beautiful portraiture work whenever and wherever they desire.  Enjoy the freedom that this range of pencils gives you and ‘escape to create’ today!  And don’t forget to share the wonderful results to inspire other artists.

BUY TODAY - WORRY & HASSLE FREE!  Creating beautiful art should be easy and fun.  Leave your worries behind and benefit from our renowned Quality Assurance.  If for any reason you aren’t completely satisfied with your Castle Arts purchase, we offer our customers complete piece of mind through our unique *Money Back Guarantee Plus* which means that if you are not entirely happy with your pencils, we will refund you ‘plus’ you keep the pencils.

All orders will be carefully wrapped and dispatched within 1-2 business days (Monday-Friday).

Orders received prior to 1pm will be processed and dispatched the same day.

Orders received after 1pm will be dispatched the following day* unless the order is placed on a Friday when it will be processed and dispatched on the first working day following the weekend (usually the Monday, except when we are all enjoying a long Bank Holiday weekend).

To ensure you have the best shopping experience with us, we only offer Tracked delivery services. We partner with experienced professionals;

Royal Mail (Tracked 24 and Tracked 48 services)

Parcel Force for all orders that exceed 2Kg.

DPD (Next Working Day, Saturday & Sunday services)

We offer FREE Standard Delivery for all UK orders over £50 and FREE Next Working Day Delivery for orders over £85.

Tracking Information will be emailed directly to you via Royal Mail, Parcel Force or DPD. If you miss a delivery it can be rearranged directly with the relevant courier.

Here at Castle HQ we place the utmost importance on your happiness and strive to ensure that you have “the best” shopping experience with us from start to finish.   And by ‘finish’ what we really mean is that we hope you will fall ‘head over heels’ in love with your pencils, paints, pens and paper.

We work extremely hard to “dot all the i’s and cross all the t’s’ in our order system to prevent any frustrating issues from coming up in the first place.  In the unfortunate event that something does go a little bumpy with your order, our fabulous Customer Service team will swing into action and turn your disappointment into amazement as they apply our Satisfaction Guarantee.  You can decide whether you would prefer a replacement (on us!) or a refund.  That’s about as hassle-free as it comes.  Oh! and this will be arranged promptly with minimal fuss so you can get right back to creating inspiring art.

How it works!

Get in touch with Customer Service with your order number and a brief explanation of your issue – we’ll be in touch as soon as possible to help.Depending on the nature of your issue, you may be asked to share some photographs to help us pinpoint the problem or investigate further with our warehouse and/or delivery partners.The team will confirm your options – refund or replacement (assuming we have available stock), the choice is yours! If we are out of stock of a particular product then a refund will typically be applied.Replacements are dispatched within 24hrs and at no additional cost to you. There may however be a small charge if you request goods to be shipped to an address that differs from the original order.