DANIEL SMITH

Cobalt Violet Deep is a charming purple that brings texture to your painting with its granulating properties. Mix a wet wash and you will see beautifully subtle granulation. At full strength this useful color is rich and bold with a velvet finish. Explore a full range of tone in your painting – light lavender to an intense royal violet will fill your landscape.

Single pigment Gray Titanium is a mid-tone warm gray with slightly yellow undertones, and is semi-transparent, granulating, non-staining and has excellent lightfastness. The color and granulation make it wonderfully useful for dusty desert animals such as deer, elephants and tortoises, and for birds whose feathers offer good camouflage for blending into dry woodland, savanna and desert like the roadrunner and burrowing owl. In landscapes, granulating Gray Titanium is beautiful for trees and shrubs whose trunks, branches and twigs are light colored and textured. Urban landscapes benefit from Gray Titanium as well with light washes suggesting concrete structures. As a single pigment, Gray Titanium mixes wonderfully with other colors adding both warmth and softness due to its semi-transparent characteristic.

This two-pigment neutral black is transparent and non-granulating. The mix of a perfect neutralizing pair of pigments creates a staining “convenience black” without the use of dulling black pigments. It dilutes to beautiful neutral grays, or it can be modulated to a range of rich greens with the addition of Phthalo Green (Blue Shade), or to an extraordinary range of aubergine, plum and maroon hues with the addition of Pyrrol Crimson. Perfect for subjects with a red and green color bias or wherever a rich black is needed.

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.

To avoid instant mud in your watercolors, select lightfast Mars Yellow. This brownish yellow is low-staining, an ideal substitute for more transparent, higher staining pigments such as New Gamboge or Yellow Ochre. A wash of Mars Yellow adds gentle granulation to passages. Color-coordinate paintings using Mars Yellow with a Violet for subtle, muted warm grays.

A rich, warm brown-green that is semi transparent and low-staining. Olive Green lends a slight granulation and makes very convincing greens. Explore rich, wet grasslands and add density and variation to tree lines with this natural-looking green.

Mixing beautifully with other colors, Permanent Yellow Deep yields a bright tangerine hue when used at full-strength and light washes are a soft peach. A warm and golden tone makes this yellow ideal for the fiery orange-yellows of a fall landscape.

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

Phthalo Blue Turquoise is a stunning color and will take your breath away! This color is perfect for tropical seas and the deep water beside white sand beaches. The highly transparent, warm blue is positioned chromatically on the DANIEL SMITH color chart after Manganese Blue Hue and before Cobalt Teal Blue. Phthalo Blue Turquoise mixes beautifully with other colors – try mixing it with New Gamboge for a beautiful natural green, or with Quinacridone Rose for a neutral violet or Pyrrol Scarlet for a fabulous gray.

A bright, beautiful lime green with the power and tinting strength that’s characteristic of all phthalo pigments. Made from Phthalocyanine Green (yellow shade) and Arylide Yellow.

DANIEL SMITH Quinacridone Lilac lies between Quinacridone Rose and Quinacridone Magenta within the DANIEL SMITH Quinacridone color family. This new, vivid pink with the slightest blue tone, is a must have for florals, and like all our Quinacridone colors, Quinacridone Lilac excels in vivid clarity and intensity.

Terre Verte, roughly translated as green earth, is a classic green that has been used by artists since antiquity. Transparent and non-staining, Terre Verte is a lightfast formulation of Viridian and Raw Umber. Use with Undersea Green and Raw Umber Violet for natural-looking landscapes. Terre Verte is a slightly granular earthy green, leaning toward teal. Easy to handle, easy to look at.

An earthy red-brown with opaque, sedimentary properties, Venetian Red is great for fall paintings and applications similar to Indian Red. Drop Venetian Red into a wet Lunar Earth wash for exciting results. Venetian Red is medium staining, lifts with some difficulty when dry, but leaves a special warm afterglow when blotted at the damp state.

Apply Masking Fluid to create a barrier that protects desired white space by blocking watercolor washes. After applying, it dries to a transparent caramel color so you can see it while you work. The dried fluid is easy to rub off with your fingers or a rubber cement pick-up.