DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Hand Poured Watercolor Half Pans

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Bronzite Genuine

A warm honey-bronze color with lustrous sparkle provided by very fine films of iron oxide. The fibrous, fairly fragile Bronzite stone from Brazil is occasionally used in jewelry but excels as a watercolor pigment. It's a warm golden-brown in mass tone - somewhere between ochre and sienna, but distinctly different - that lets down into pale washes of soft, always warm, sandy beige. In a wash on cold press or rough paper, the brown settles out of this intriguing special-effect color.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: No

Buff Titanium (PW6:1)

Spatter or drop a brush load of Buff Titanium into a wash and enjoy the pigment displacement. Unique to Daniel Smith, Buff Titanium resembles the ecru shades of sand and antique lace and simulates the porous texture of an eggshell. It is a most welcome neutral, with semi-transparent to opaque non-staining properties. Pre-mix Buff Titanium with Quinacridone Rose or Perinone Orange for subtle hues and matte surfaces ideal for the velvety petals of your favorite flowers. Mix with Indigo or Van Dyke Brown to create slate-colored shadows and soft feathers. Glaze a dried landscape with a misty, atmospheric mood.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent - Not yet rated by ASTM - Rating based on Daniel Smith's independent testing.
• Transparency: Semi-transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Non-staining

Pigment: Burnt Sienna (PBr7)

This transparent to semi-transparent earth pigment, a grayed orange, combines with other hues without a loss of intensity or transparency. Subsequent layers (or glazes) do not sully or stain the other pigments these glazes contact.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Non-staining

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors - Burnt Sienna Light 15ml Tube

A beautiful earthy color, DANIEL SMITH Burnt Sienna Light is redder than our Burnt Sienna, more transparent and slightly less granulating. In very light washes, it makes a good, light flesh tone for portraits, and in darker washes, it is a rich red-brown.

• Pigment: PR 101, PO 48 | Series: 1
• Lightfastness: I – Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Staining: 1-Non-Staining
• Granulation: Non-Granulating

Pigment: Burnt Umber (PBr7)

This rich dark brown earth pigment is popular with artists due to its semi-transparent or semi-opaque qualities. It is lightfast, low-staining, and can readily be lifted to vary its value in otherwise dark passages. Warm Burnt Umber with a little Alizarin Crimson or cool it with blue as your subject dictates.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low

Pigment: Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue (PY53, PY151, PY83)

Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue is a rich, bright and intense alternative to Cadmium Yellow. Using a blend of pigments, our chemist has duplicated the brilliance and opacity of Cadmium Yellow with unsurpassed opacity, color strength, durability, and lightfastness. It disperses beautifully in water for smooth, rich washes.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Low

Pigment: Cascade Green (PBr7, PB15)

The craggy peaks of the Cascade Mountains divide lush, damp western Washington from the dry high plains of the east. Conifer forests, rushing streams and alpine meadows showcase a million shades of green and inspired this versatile addition to our artist-preferred greens. As you brush it on, subtle variation from dark to light adds the illusion of depth. This rich, mid-range green is cool, dark, and mossy. In washes, it has stunning clarity. In any application, it has excellent lightfastness.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Medium

Pigment: Cerulean Blue (PB35)

A superb mixing color. Think of it as a cleaner, brighter, and slightly warmer alternative to Cerulean Blue Chromium. A bit less green it's a truer blue that will be a versatile component of any palette. When you think of blue summer skies, this is that color!

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Non-staining

Beautiful on its own, and especially so when mixed with a transparent pigment, this sky blue inorganic pigment is granular and medium-light in value. Highly permanent and extremely low-staining, Cerulean Blue creates exciting granulation and settling washes. A drop of Cerulean Blue into a damp wash such as Burnt Sienna creates a halo effect around the denser Cerulean. This is especially effective when Quinacridone Gold or Quinacridone Burnt Orange are used in the moist underpainting. This technique is great for rendering lichen and Spanish Moss. Add Buff Titanium, Undersea Green and touches of Lunar Black – each a DANIEL SMITH exclusive – and the creative fun truly begins! For a misty landscape or that dusky quality on eggplant, grapes, and plums, think Cerulean as a mixer.

• Pigment: PB 36
• Series: 2
• Lightfastness: I – Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Staining: 2-Low Staining
• Granulation: Granulating

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Cobalt Turquoise (PB36)

A predictable non-staining teal blue with muscle and the presence to stand alone, but when used in a glaze or wash, it blends with incredible ease. Because of its slight granulation, you can achieve multi-layers and tone on tone effects to delight and surprise with each addition or stroke.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: No

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Goethite - Brown Ochre (PY43)

Found in iron deposits nearly worldwide, Goethite (Brown Ochre) is named after Johann Wolfgang Goethe, the German philosopher, poet, and mineralogist. Our unusually pure pigment is mined in Russia, south of Moscow. Rich and warm, DANIEL SMITH Goethite is a dark tea color in mass tone and washes out to a rich, warm tan. In washes, it displays intriguing granulation, with pools of light and dark in every brushstroke. Like all colors derived from the earth, it is lightfast and permanent; a lasting connection to the planet and the creative forces of nature.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low

Green Apatite Genuine

PrimaTek® Green Apatite Watercolor lets you create a beautiful range of greens-fresh yellow-green to deep olive-with a single tube. This sedimentary color is a dark, almost brown, olive green in mass tone. In washes, the brown settles out of a vivid natural green, creating memorable texture and contrast.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Hansa Yellow Deep (PY65)

Kissed with a touch of orange, this is a pure chroma color with high-tinting, semi-transparent organic pigments. Hansa Yellow Deep is considered the 'perfect yellow', a fact which offers more control when mixing. Painters can admire the purity of this primary pigment and adjust its temperature while avoiding a gray from a hidden complement. Think of a yellow pepper.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Low

Hansa Yellow Light (PY3)

Cleaner, more transparent and brighter in chroma than Cadmium Yellow Light, this is a high-tinting, semi-transparent organic pigment. Hansa Yellow is considered the 'perfect yellow', offering more control when mixing. Painters admire the purity of this primary pigment and ability to adjust its temperature while avoiding a gray from a hidden complement. Think of a yellow pepper.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Very Good
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Low

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Hansa Yellow Medium (PY97)

Hansa Yellow Medium is a high-tinting, semi-transparent organic pigment. Considered the 'perfect yellow', Hansa Yellow Medium offers more control when mixing. Painters admire the purity of this primary pigment and adjust its temperature while avoiding a gray from a hidden complement. Think of a yellow pepper.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Low

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Indian Red (PR101)

Artists choose Indian Red for architectural renderings, old brick and other subjects where a flat (matte) granular surface is desired. The opacity and density intrinsic to Indian Red make this grayed earth brown a useful asset. One coat of this low-intensity pigment covers even a highly saturated passage. Yellow Ochre, Cerulean Blue and Indian Red form an opaque triad, producing grayed earthlike mixtures common to landscapes. Handling tip: Hit it once and walk away.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Medium

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Indigo (PB60 PBk6)

Our Indigo formula mixes Indanthrone Blue with Lamp Black for an extremely lightfast, intense dark that closely matches true Indigo. Transparent, yet high in tinting strength, this Indigo leaves a gentle faded blue denim stain when blotted from a damp state paint. Blueberries, blackberries, and plums are a few subjects to play with using this technique. Use Indigo wherever dusty purples are desired.

Indigo evokes a feeling of atmospheric depth used for expressive, moody skies. Try flowing short strokes of Indigo into water, add touches of Sepia and Quinacridone Burnt Orange to create branches and birch trees. For a special treat, try this with Indigo and Cote d'Azur Violet.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Medium

Daniel Smith Watercolor Jane Grey

Each watercolor pan is hand-poured. Hand pouring pans is incredibly labor-intensive and offers the purest form of professional watercolor half pans. It takes three to four pours over several months of drying to produce each half pan of DANIEL SMITH Watercolor.

• Pigments: PB 29, PBr 7
• Series: 2
• Lightfastness: I – Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Staining: 2 – Low Staining
• Granulation: Granulating

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors - Lavender 15ml Tube

DANIEL SMITH Lavender is a beautiful periwinkle blue, and quite different from our other blues. This semi-transparent lavender-blue has beautiful granulation and lifts easily. In addition to being an excellent floral color, our Lavender suggests certain shades of faded denim.

• Pigment: PW 6, PV 15, PB 29 | Series: 2
• Lightfastness: I – Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Staining: 2-Low Staining
• Granulation: Granulating

Lunar Black (PBk11)

Imagine a transparent black with an expansive value range and pigment particles that react like magnetic shavings attracting and repelling each other. Unique pigment properties make Lunar Black a radically reticulating color. When dry, a Lunar Black wash resembles a marbled moonscape. This mottled stony texture can be successfully glazed. You can even gently paint into a wet to damp Lunar Black, dropping in watery pigment-virtually any combination of favorites. Lunar Black is an inorganic neutral black watercolor pigment and a Daniel Smith exclusive. Think Black Magic-and re-think black.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent - Not yet rated by ASTM - Rating based on Daniel Smith's independent testing.
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Lunar Blue (PBk11 PB15)

The fabric of the night sky glides off the brush in this heavenly new shade. Granulating lunar black floats above a phthalo undertone, perfect for capturing a moonlit sky. Inky as midnight, or diffused as the moon on water, semi-transparent Lunar Blue lifts beautifully, leaving behind a mere shadow of itself. This moody new watercolor is sure to entrance.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low

Monte Amiata Natural Sienna (PBr7)

Bring a natural glow to your palette with this stunning sienna earth tone. Subtle granulation and delicate transparency make this watercolor especially useful for portraits and landscapes. This low staining pigment is very workable and has excellent lightfastness.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating:  Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors 15 Ml Moonglow (PG18 PB29 PR177)

Water frees this amazing three-pigment blend to perform miracles. Watch and wait as Anthraquinoid Red floats, Ultramarine Blue settles and Viridian grays the resulting violet color. Selectively blot and lift a surface wash to expose delicate blue-greens. A description of the fascinating light and dark washes can never match a personal experience! Use Moonglow in shadows and as a silhouette pigment and enjoy its reaction to salt application in background washes. Its neutral tinting property makes it effective with almost all the Daniel Smith watercolors. Try introducing the Luminescent Interference pigments to areas of wet, damp or dry Moonglow. Look to Undersea Green as a companion pigment. And try a Moonglow sky and long shadows on sunset snow scenes.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: Yes
• Staining: Low

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors - Payne's Blue Gray 15ml Tube

DANIEL SMITH Payne’s Blue Gray is similar to our bluer Indigo, but as our original Payne’s Gray, it is semi-transparent rather than transparent. Inky blue and non-granulating Payne’s Blue Gray is perfect for painting dark, stormy skies, nightscapes, and for quickly darkening most other colors.

• Pigment: PB 60, PBk 6 | Series: 1
• Lightfastness: I – Excellent
• Transparency: Semi-Transparent
• Staining: 2-Low Staining
• Granulation: Non-Granulating

Permanent Alizarin Crimson (PR177, PV19, PR149)

Permanent Alizarin Crimson, developed with our customers, blends pigments to produce an exceptionally lightfast red with true Alizarin Crimson character and versatility. Like classic Alizarin, it is vibrant, non-granulating, medium staining and very transparent, with the undeniable advantage of permanence. Try a rich and bold application or a blush of crimson color in a light wash, we know you'll love this beautiful shade.

• ASTM Lightfastness Rating: Excellent
• Transparency: Transparent
• Granulating: No
• Staining: Medium