Daniel Smith is an American watercolor manufacturer widely respected for its deep focus on pure pigments and color exploration. Beyond producing high-quality artist watercolors, Daniel Smith is known for introducing unique pigments to the watercolor world, including natural mineral colors and rare earth pigments previously unavailable for artistic use.
With exceptionally high pigment loads and minimal fillers, Daniel Smith watercolors offer artists intense color, nuanced granulation and a wide expressive range. For many painters, Daniel Smith is not just a paint brand, but a way to explore texture, depth and the raw personality of pigment itself.
Opaque and cool. This is the most intense black available. It is a sooty by-product of burned mineral oil and tar. Lamp Black mixed with Burnt Sienna can add a trace of warmth to a passage. Think classic black velvet. Use to darken transparent pigments.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Mars Yellow is a professional earthy yellow watercolor with soft granulation, low staining, and excellent control in mixtures. Ideal for landscapes, earthy palettes, warm greys, and natural muted passages.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Olive Green is a warm earthy green watercolor, ideal for landscapes, grasses, and foliage. With subtle granulation and natural behavior, it creates realistic organic textures effortlessly.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Permanent Yellow Deep is a warm, golden transparent yellow with excellent mixing ability. From vibrant oranges to soft peach washes, it is ideal for autumn palettes, florals, and luminous warm compositions.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Perylene Scarlet is a deep red-orange watercolor with strong intensity, clarity, and granulation. Ideal for dramatic washes, florals, shadows, and clean modern color mixing.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Phthalo Blue Turquoise is a professional turquoise-blue watercolor with dazzling transparency and powerful tinting strength. Ideal for tropical seas, luminous water, clean mixes, and modern palettes full of energy and clarity.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Phthalo Yellow Green is a vibrant lime green watercolor with strong transparency and high color intensity. Ideal for fresh foliage, spring greens, and bright clean mixes.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Quinacridone Lilac is a vibrant pink-lilac watercolor with exceptional transparency and intensity. Ideal for florals, portraits, and luminous clean mixes.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Terre Verte is a classic earthy green watercolor with transparency and subtle granulation. Ideal for landscapes, underpainting, and natural, controlled color mixing.
The Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor Tube – Venetian Red is a rich earthy red-brown watercolor with strong granulation and opaque coverage. Ideal for autumn scenes, architecture, and textured natural surfaces.
The Daniel Smith Artist Masking Fluid is a masking fluid for protecting selected areas of paper from watercolor, gouache, inks and water-soluble colour. The 30ml bottle includes 5 fine-point applicator tips, making it easier to create lines, dots, highlights and small details without using a brush. It dries to a transparent caramel colour so you can see where it has been applied, and is removed after the artwork is fully dry.
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors are designed for artists who want full control and true pigment performance. This is not about choosing colors by name, but about building a palette based on behavior, granulation, and pigment character. A watercolor range that lets the color speak for itself.
Work with Daniel Smith Extra Fine Gouache 15ml and experience the clarity of watercolor in an opaque, matte form. Made with pure artist-grade pigments and gum arabic—without chalk or fillers—this gouache offers control, clean mixing and rich color for illustration, urban sketching and mixed media.
Daniel Smith Extra Fine™ Watercolor Half Pans are artist-grade watercolors in a compact half pan format, perfect for building a custom palette. Each color is hand-poured and delivers the same high pigment load and authentic behavior as the Extra Fine tube range. Ideal for travel, urban sketching and plein air painting.