DANIEL SMITH, the innovative watercolor manufacturer, offers 272 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.

DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ Watercolor Sticks, it's like a Pan in Your Hand! The Watercolor Sticks have the convenience and portability of pan watercolors and offer the same superior intensity of colors as the DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors. Each stick is packed with pure DANIEL SMITH pigment (no wax or fillers) and produces vibrant, strong color. They’re highly reactive with water and release a rich and creamy color. They are a creative tool, make marks and color mixes. DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolor Sticks are affordable, portable and versatile!

Painting with a brush is OPTIONAL - DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks are perfectly shaped to hold in your hand and directly put paint to paper.

Perfect for Plein Aire and travel.

Exceptional value! Each stick is approximately 3” long, ½” diameter. Available in 62 of DANIEL SMITH’s most popular colors.

Artist grade pigments. DANIEL SMITH Watercolor sticks are packed with concentrated amounts of the exact same pigment used in DANIEL SMITH watercolor tubes and half pans.

DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolor Sticks are made by hand, in the USA, by Daniel Smith Manufacturing.

DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ GOUACHE is a professional artist-grade water media that produces an opaque matte finish. Made with the same high-quality pigments and gum arabic as DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ Watercolors, GOUACHE is uniquely formulated with higher pigment loads to achieve density and opacity without adding whites or other fillers.

Whether your painting style is abstract, representational, illustrative or figurative, you’ll enjoy the creative versatility of GOUACHE. Apply it as mass tone straight from the tube to get rich, full-bodied solids with single brush strokes. Temper colors smoothly with water to create softer lines and hazy layers. Mix and blend new shades to customize your palette. You can even scrape into it or build up light texture with mark-making tools.

Use GOUACHE to accent your watercolor paintings with velvety shadows or bold pops of color. Try it with a wider variety of brushes on either light or dark surfaces – explore a whole new world of artistic expression!

• 74 richly saturated colors
• Exceptional lightfastness and pure, natural opacity
• Full range of staining and lifting qualities
• Rewets, dilutes and cleans up easily with water
• Available in 15ml tubes; add colors to empty half-pans for portability

Try our Primary Mixing Set! Use the three primary colors (Hansa Yellow Medium, Pyrrol Red, Ultramarine Blue) to mix secondary greens, oranges and purples. Use the Titanium White to adjust the shades.

DANIEL SMITH Hand Poured Watercolor Half Pans arded open stock available in 45 colors

DANIEL SMITH Hand Poured Watercolor Half Pans available in 3 BONUS VALUE Hand Poured Half Pan Sets in a Metal Palette

Each Set includes

A sturdy, black Metal Box with the popular DANIEL SMITH logo in white on the top.

Inside are 12 or 24 colors ( depending on set size) DANIEL SMITH Watercolors Hand Poured into half pans which are removable and refillable,

Opening the Metal Box reveals 4 large paint mixing wells in the lid, the fold out section has 8 smaller wells. The half pan holder section is removable and beneath it are 7 more mixing wells for a total of 19. The inside is painted with a white enamel for easy clean up with a soft cloth or paper towel. There is space between the 2 rows of half pans to keep a small brush. For convenient painting, there is a finger ring underneath that allows for securing the Metal Box to the palm of your hand while painting without having to grip the Metal Box.

Included with the set is a waterproof acetate map of the specific set colors, their properties and location in the box.

Any/ all are perfect for Plein Aire, Sketching, size convenience. Paint, mix, play with color and discover new color combinations that will inspire you

DANIEL SMITH Half Pans Carded - available in 45 colors

DANIEL SMITH Half Pan Watercolor BONUS Sets are available in a 12, 12- Color of Inspiration and a 24 color set:

12 Color HAND POURED Watercolor Half Pan Set in a Metal Box is filled with beautiful DANIEL SMITH Watercolors. The set includes split (cool & warm) primary colors, a gorgeous secondary green, and 4 earth colors all in one convenient, sturdy Metal Box ready for the studio, coffee shop and on-the-go trips anywhere! As a BONUS, there are 12 empty half pans ready for filling with your favorite watercolors to customize your Metal Box.

12 Colors of Inspiration HAND POURED Watercolor Half Pan Setin a Metal Box is filled with beautiful DANIEL SMITH Watercolors. Artists are excited by color and find themselves inspired by new, juicy colors which is exactly what our 12 Colors of Inspiration in a Metal Box is designed to do! Nine of these colors are unique to DANIEL SMITH (2 are PrimaTeks made from minerals!) and the other 3 complete the set for mixing. Beautiful and reliable color is why DANIEL SMITH Watercolors have become the favorites of so many artists world wide. As a BONUS, there are 12 empty half pans ready for filling with your favorite watercolors to customize your Metal Box

24 Color HAND POURED Watercolor Half Pan Set in a Metal Box is filled with useful and beautiful DANIEL SMITH Watercolors ready to capture any landscape; urban, suburban, mountain, field, forest, floral in Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter!

The set has expanded (cool, warm and special) primary colors, gorgeous secondary greens, core earth colors plus a neutral gray that allow endless color combinations ready for painting anything, anywhere! There is a minimum color mixing of each color to the others of 552 colors, and endless color mixing potential when adjusting the ratios between color to color, even more color mixes when adding a third color!

DANIEL SMITH, the innovative watercolor manufacturer, offers 272 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.

DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ Watercolor Sticks, it's like a Pan in Your Hand! The Watercolor Sticks have the convenience and portability of pan watercolors and offer the same superior intensity of colors as the DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors. Each stick is packed with pure DANIEL SMITH pigment (no wax or fillers) and produces vibrant, strong color. They’re highly reactive with water and release a rich and creamy color. They are a creative tool, make marks and color mixes. DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolor Sticks are affordable, portable and versatile!

Painting with a brush is OPTIONAL - DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sticks are perfectly shaped to hold in your hand and directly put paint to paper.

Perfect for Plein Aire and travel.

Exceptional value! Each stick is approximately 3” long, ½” diameter. Available in 62 of DANIEL SMITH’s most popular colors.

Artist grade pigments. DANIEL SMITH Watercolor sticks are packed with concentrated amounts of the exact same pigment used in DANIEL SMITH watercolor tubes and half pans.

DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolor Sticks are made by hand, in the USA, by Daniel Smith Manufacturing.

DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ GOUACHE is a professional artist-grade water media that produces an opaque matte finish. Made with the same high-quality pigments and gum arabic as DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ Watercolors, GOUACHE is uniquely formulated with higher pigment loads to achieve density and opacity without adding whites or other fillers.

Whether your painting style is abstract, representational, illustrative or figurative, you’ll enjoy the creative versatility of GOUACHE. Apply it as mass tone straight from the tube to get rich, full-bodied solids with single brush strokes. Temper colors smoothly with water to create softer lines and hazy layers. Mix and blend new shades to customize your palette. You can even scrape into it or build up light texture with mark-making tools.

Use GOUACHE to accent your watercolor paintings with velvety shadows or bold pops of color. Try it with a wider variety of brushes on either light or dark surfaces – explore a whole new world of artistic expression!

• 74 richly saturated colors
• Exceptional lightfastness and pure, natural opacity
• Full range of staining and lifting qualities
• Rewets, dilutes and cleans up easily with water
• Available in 15ml tubes; add colors to empty half-pans for portability

Try our Primary Mixing Set! Use the three primary colors (Hansa Yellow Medium, Pyrrol Red, Ultramarine Blue) to mix secondary greens, oranges and purples. Use the Titanium White to adjust the shades.