Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor, Winter Colors Set of 5

Daniel Smith Winter Colors, 5 x 15 mL

Hand-picked for painting winter scenes, these five Daniel Smith watercolors offer plenty of possibilities: quick sketches right from the tube with a limited color palette, or more complex mixing and layering.

Our Winter Colors picks are a bit unusual: quinophthalone yellow, for example, is a new pigment not found in many color lines, with a unique cool undertone and very high intensity. We’ve included genuine alizarin crimson, not seen much anymore on artists’ palettes but still with a special color that other crimsons don’t match. Manganese Blue Hue offers a cold, light blue for snowy skies. Payne’s Grey and Transparent Brown Oxide round out the set as a pair of go-to colors for frozen earth and wet surfaces.

Five 15 mL tubes. Made in the United States.

About Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor:

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor is not just the premier brand of American watercolorit is the widest, most experimental range of watercolors in the world, with 266 colors and a never-ending flow of new ideas. Still based in Seattle after 50 years, Daniel Smith also remains at the forefront of art materials innovation. The Pacific Northwest’s premier color house popularized quinacridones for artist use, created the first commercial versions of key colors on the contemporary palette, and pioneered new mineral colors by creating the pigments from scratch, literally grinding down the stones and binding them in an easy-to-use traditional watercolor.

Compared with the other brands of professional watercolor on the market, Daniel Smith stands out for its dense pigmentation, matte finish, and strongly adhesive binder. Taken together, these three qualities make Extra Fine Watercolors the unparalleled leader in sheer amount of pigment attached to the page. Even without layering, and even on wet paper, it’s easy to build up a completely saturated masstone of most colors.

Each Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor is individually rated for lightfastness, granulation, staining, and opacity. Most colors carry the highest lightfastness rating, meaning colors won’t fade for hundreds of years.