Daneil Smith Watercolors

DANIEL SMITH currently offers 245 different watercolors, with more in the works every year. The sheer range of possibility they offer is endless and unparalleled in the industry. Our amazing selection spans the spectrum from the historical, to our natural earth and PrimaTek colors, to our Quinacridones, the brightest and boldest colors modern technology has to offer. Dan Smith started his business in 1976, dedicated to bringing the highest quality inks to the print-artist community. In 1993, Dan set out to create a line of watercolors with one goal in mind: to bring the watercolor artist the very best product available. His dream came to fruition with the introduction of a hugely innovative collection of 27 paints that just happened to change the world of watercolors forever. Our pigments may come from every continent except Antarctica but our paints are manufactured in Seattle, Washington. The DANIEL SMITH paint making lab is neither big nor impersonal. It is a world of machinery and color, where the air smells of linseed oil, and everyone’s clothes are splattered with paint. The manufacturing R&D lab is the soul of the company, a place where ideas are shared, artist’s voices are heard, and new DANIEL SMITH colors are brought to life by a talented and dedicated production team. Artisans making paint for artists, they have your complete satisfaction in mind. Each year more of our chemist’s inventive creations are introduced. Early on, DANIEL SMITH Inc. was the first to offer Quinacridone pigments in artists’ paints. These fantastic, powerful colors, originally created for the auto industry, gave artists new and vibrant choices perfect for glazing. A buying frenzy ensued, and since then, these colors have been copied by other paint manufacturers. After all, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.