Daniel Smith
VerifiedSeattle-based manufacturer of professional artist-grade watercolors, inks, and oil paints. Daniel Smith mills and grinds its own pigments — including its signature PrimaTek line made from genuine crushed minerals — at its Seattle, Washington facility, where it has produced all colors since founding in 1976.
Products by Daniel Smith
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$32-$42DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Secondary Watercolor Set, 3 Tubes, 15ml
Three large 15ml tubes of rich secondary watercolors milled at Daniel Smith's Seattle, WA facility. The set rounds out the color wheel with vibrant orange, green, and violet hues that complement the Primary Set. Each pigment is chosen for its high concentration and excellent lightfastness, delivering jewel-toned washes straight from the tube or serving as saturated starting points for mixing more complex colors.
$32-$42DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Primary Watercolor Set, 3 Tubes, 15ml
Three large 15ml tubes of professional watercolor primary colors — Perylene Red, Hansa Yellow Medium, and French Ultramarine — milled and filled at Daniel Smith's Seattle, WA facility. The generous 15ml size makes these practical for students working through color-mixing exercises or painters who use these foundational primaries in volume. Each pigment is selected for high lightfastness ratings and the transparency needed for clean secondary mixes.
$38-$50DANIEL SMITH PrimaTek Introductory Watercolor Set, 6 Tubes, 5ml
Six 5ml tubes of Daniel Smith's proprietary PrimaTek watercolors, each made from genuine minerals milled at the Seattle, WA facility. The set includes Rhodonite Genuine, Jadeite Genuine, Amethyst Genuine, Mayan Blue Genuine, Hematite Genuine, and Piemontite Genuine — colors named for and manufactured from actual crushed gemstones and mineral ore. The mineral particles create distinctive granulating washes that no synthetic pigment can replicate.
$30-$38DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Essentials Introductory Watercolor Set, 6 Tubes, 5ml
A six-tube starter set covering a complete warm-and-cool primary palette: Hansa Yellow Light, Quinacridone Rose, Phthalo Blue (GS), New Gamboge, Pyrrol Scarlet, and French Ultramarine. Each 5ml tube is filled with pigment milled by hand at Daniel Smith's Seattle, WA facility. From these six colors an artist can mix virtually any hue on the color wheel, making the set ideal for beginners, students, and plein air painters.