Made from unpainted softwood, the rounded and triangular shape of these colored pencils make it easy for samll hands to hold. The extra thick lead is unbreakable. Twelve colors include: carmine red, vermilion, orange, golden yellow, lemon yellow, yellow green, green, blue, purple, rust, yellow brown and prussian blue. An extra colorless pencil , called the splender, allows you to create fantastic shadowing and spatial effects by binding and compressing the color particles, giving the colored surface a polished appearance.