DANIEL SMITH, the innovative watercolor manufacturer, offers 266 watercolors in 15ml tubes, both the widest range of lightfast, highly pigmented colors on the market as well as color choices.  Why so many color options?  Because artists need choices, similar colors often have different properties from one another, and what is a perfect color for one artist, may not the perfect color for all artists. DANIEL SMITH also offers 117 of its most popular colors in a smaller, 5ml tube as well as Watercolor Sets and Watercolor Sticks.
 
The collection of DANIEL SMITH Watercolors includes:
 
36 PrimaTek Watercolors. These are made from minerals that DANIEL SMITH’s mineralogist sources from around the world, which are ground into pigments, and made into PrimaTek Watercolors. These exclusive, and unique pigments have interesting granulating properties that some artists have described as magical!
 
14 Quinacridone Watercolors. The Quinacridone family of colors (pronounced kwin-ak’-ri doan) are modern, high performance pigments with outstanding transparency and color intensity.
 
49 Luminescent Watercolors. These are colors have mica added to the pigments causing light to reflect in different ways giving the paint a luminous quality.

• Iridescent - Reflection - particles of light hits the paint/pigment matrix and bounces back, much like a mirror.
• Interference - Refraction - particles of light enter the paint/pigment matrix and scatters light.
• Duochrome: is one pigment that bounces between two colors.
• Pearlescent: adds opalescence - like an opal or pearl - to the color it’s mixed or glazed with.

  
Made in the USA, in Seattle, WA – Each batch of color is made, start to finish, by the DANIEL SMITH paint-makers, and tested by a team of chemists throughout the manufacturing process, to ensure the highest quality and color continuity in every tube, stick, half pan and dot of DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolor.