Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolours

Uncover your creative potential with the world's largest watercolour selection, featuring 272 shades split into three collections: Extra Fine, PrimaTek, and Luminescent. Each batch is carefully crafted to exceed top industry standards, with thorough testing of properties such as lightfastness, colour value, tinting strength, transparency, vibrancy, undertone, particle size, density, and viscosity. These vivid and reliable colours allow you to create any artwork imaginable, easily blending to achieve a wide range of hues. All paints come in convenient 15ml tubes.

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EXTRA FINE WATERCOLOUR

Discover your creative inspiration with the largest selection of watercolours worldwide—272 shades across three lines: Extra Fine, PrimaTek, and Luminescent. Designed to surpass the highest industry standards, each batch undergoes comprehensive testing for qualities such as lightfastness, colour intensity, tinting power, clarity, vibrancy, undertone, particle size, density, and viscosity. Bring your ideas to life with bright, consistent colours that blend effortlessly to create even more hues.

PRIMATEK WATERCOLOUR

Discover your creative inspiration with the world's largest selection of watercolours—totalling 272 shades across three lines: Extra Fine, PrimaTek, and Luminescent. DANIEL SMITH launched the PrimaTek line in 1998, using minerals—some semi-precious, like Lapis Lazuli—to create these paints. We employ a mineralogist to source the minerals, which are then processed into pigments and milled into watercolour paint. PrimaTeks are known for their stunning granulation, adding a sense of movement and depth that some artists find magical. Crafted to surpass industry standards, each batch undergoes comprehensive testing for lightfastness, colour strength, tinting power, clarity, vibrancy, undertone, particle size, density, and viscosity. Create with vibrant, consistent colours that mix easily to produce countless variations.

LUMINESCENT WATERCOLOUR

Luminescent Watercolour types include Iridescent, Interference, Duochrome, and Pearlescent. Iridescent reflects light like a mirror; Interference scatters light; Duochrome shifts between two colours; Pearlescent adds opalescence. These colours are perfect for illustrating nature's shimmering effects, such as bird feathers, fish, shells, or glowing objects like the moon, clouds, rainbows, snow, ice, and metals. They are ideal for depicting fantasy themes involving iridescence, like fairies, dragons, and mermaids.

These unique watercolours are nature-inspired colours with optical effects that standard colours can't replicate. These colours feature an iridescent sheen, shimmer, sparkle, or colour shift common in birds’ feathers, insects, fish, flowers, metals, and water. Their luminous quality offers artists a broader palette of options. Designed to surpass top industry standards, each batch is carefully tested for performance aspects such as lightfastness, colour value, tinting strength, clarity, vibrancy, undertone, particle size, density, and viscosity. Artists can create everything with vibrant, consistent colours that mix easily for even more variations.

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Luminescent Watercolour Definitions: Iridescent, Interference, Duochrome and Pearlescent.

Iridescent: Reflection – A particle of light strikes the paint or pigment matrix and reflects, similar to a mirror.

Interference: Refraction – A particle of light enters the paint or pigment matrix and scatters light.

Duochrome: a single pigment that alternates between two colours.

Pearlescent: adds opalescence – similar to an opal or pearl – in relation to the colour it is blended or coated with.

DANIEL SMITH Luminescent Watercolours are ideal for illustrating nature's unique visual effects. Nature showcases stunning displays through bright colours in birds’ feathers, insects, fish, and seashells. Many plants also have a shiny, dewy appearance. Examples include the iridescence of a snail’s trail or the silvery sheen of a spider’s web. Other luminous or shimmering objects, depending on the lighting, include a moon that looks silvery or golden, sunset-lit clouds, rainbows, the sparkling reflection of snow and ice, and glistening water. Metals such as pewter, copper, silver, and gold exhibit this sheen as well. Mythical beings like fairies, dragons, mermaids, and other fantasy creatures are often depicted with extraordinary iridescence. To bring these enchanting motifs to life, special paints such as DANIEL SMITH Luminescent Watercolours are ideal!