DANIEL SMITH

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, 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.

If you want to add atmospheric or emotional punch to your work, then squeeze some transparent Perylene Green onto your palette. It exhibits an almost black mass tone that spreads to a beautiful blue/green wash without producing mud – a color perfect for delineating shadows or creating moody landscapes, ominous horizons and stormy seas. A medium-staining pigment with intensity and softness, Perylene Green is highly soluble and easy to use. It glazes under or over other colors ~a very cool color~ allowed one of our more demanding artist/testers.

Perylene Red is medium staining and semi-tranparent. It creates vivid, dark washes with a clean brilliant red-orange. This sedimentary pigment offers an additional health plus, as it is made from a metal-free red. Clean modern pigments such as this will put accidental mud-making in the past.

A deep, luscious, grape-juicy reddish-violet. The masstone is dark and intense, shifting in tints toward a rich red violet with a brownish-purple cast. Because of its relative neutrality, it’s a natural-looking choice for portrait, landscape or botanical work-imagine how good it looks with complementary greens. It also makes strong, interesting shadows.

For cool, clean staining shadows and reflected light on windows, super staining, super transparent Phthalo Blue Green Shade is a popular pure chroma organic pigment. Mix with Hansa Yellow for luminous greens.

A powerful blue with a slightly red undertone, this popular pigment is valued for its strength and economy – just a daub of paint can color a whole sky. A dash of blue gives a full range of value. Mix dark colors for shading and shadows by combining Phthalo Blue with Quinacridone Rose. Use Phthalo Blue’s transparent quality to create containers and water around stems.

Phthalo Green (Blue Shade) is a black-green. Concentrated to diluted states, it is a transparent and super staining green. Organic and absolutely lightfast, most artists find this color indispensable. The slightly bluish shade can be readily modified with yellows and reds. Creates luminous, effective darks or clean glazes.

Phthalo Green Yellow Shade is a bottle green. In concentrated to diluted states, it is transparent and super-staining. Organic and absolutely lightfast, most artists find this color indispensable. The slightly bluish Phthalo Green BS can be readily modified with yellows and reds. Phthalo Green YS is a warmer basic green. Each creates luminous, effective darks or clean glazes.

This DANIEL SMITH exclusive is a favorite of artists. It moves from a deep dark turquoise to a thin film of robin’s egg blue in a single wash, making a remarkable transition from ground level to sky areas of garden florals. Use this pigment alongside purples, or to paint a lake in summer.

Ground from a scarlet-streaked mineral from the hills of Italy, Piemontite Genuine is a rich, versatile PrimaTek watercolor. A deep ruddy violet is the darkest value of this watercolor; adding water produces lovely violet-brown granulation with a carmine tone. Perfect for adding interest to shadows or painting the mottled surfaces of autumn leaves.

Float this color into a moist wash to add variety to shadows. DANIEL SMITH Prussian Blue is lightfast and transparent, with medium to high staining strength. It disperses and diffuses easily and evenly and can be considered interchangeable with the higher staining Phthalo Blue in application, although Prussian Blue is slightly greener.

Living in a luxurious state between magenta and fuchsia, Pyrrol Crimson is a delicious red just begging to find its way into your rose garden. Moderately staining and semi-transparent, this pigment allows itself to be directed in a wash without running wild. It blends to an earthier rose when mixed with English Red Ochre and thins to a pale fuchsia rose when diluted.

This unforgettable semi-transparent/semi-opaque orange is a smooth, saturated and pure addition to the watercolorist’s palette. Capture the glory of a summer garden or the magic of a tropical sunset with this dynamic and versatile hue.

This fire engine red is cleaner than Cadmium or Permanent Red. It is a modern synthetic-organic pigment. While close in value to its cousins the Perylenes, it disperses more evenly and is less granular.

Permanent, semi-transparent to semi-opaque and medium staining, this fire engine red is cleaner than Cadmium or Permanent Red. It is a modern synthetic-organic pigment. While close in value to its Perylene cousin, it disperses more evenly and is less granular.

DANIEL SMITH Quinacridone Burnt Orange is a brilliant, smoldering orange/sienna color. Add to French Ultramarine and create dramatic sky washes with a gray-blue mix that renders a full value scale. Use Quinacridone Burnt Orange to modify Sap Green in landscapes to achieve rich, mossy greens that coordinate land with sky. Highly durable and extremely transparent, all the Quinacridone colors excel in vivid clarity and intensity.

This slightly sedimentary, rich dark, red-brown could lighten, brighten and eliminate mud browns in all your paintings. Use with Quinacridone Coral for branch and blossom paintings. Highly durable and extremely transparent, all the DANIEL SMITH Quinacridone colors excel in vivid clarity and intensity.

Quinacridone Deep Gold is more orange than Quinacridone Gold, and more yellow than Quinacridone Burnt Orange. It’s an incredibly ruddy golden-orange, a vibrant and exciting alternative to Burnt Sienna. Quinacridones are the brightest, boldest colors modern technology can offer. Carefully selected pigments, ground to optimize their specific qualities, are blended with the finest imported Gum Arabic, put in tubes and labeled by hand. Transparency and intensity are the hallmarks of our renowned DANIEL SMITH Quinacridone colors.