Maintain the quality of your brushstrokes, add extra transparency and create glazes of glowing color.

Extend your colors with the Transparent Blender without adding dry time. High tinting strength means good value – you’re not paying for fillers and extenders found in lower quality oils. Only the tiniest amount creates beautiful shades when blended with white. oil) to give you the best color strength. Each formula is perfectly balanced (pigment vs. Manufactured by hand in small batches, these oil paints are highly pigmented with uniform, buttery consistency. The only difference is the Linseed Oil and Safflower Oil have been modified to make the paint easily cleaned with water – no solvents required! From the ingredients to the machines used to produce them, everything about these two product lines is the same. October 2022: DANIEL SMITH Original Oil Colors and Mediums will soon be discontinued to make room for a future line expansion of DANIEL SMITH Water Soluble Oil Colors and Mediums, which are made with the same pigments and binder.

DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ Watercolors – 5ml.

DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine™ Watercolors – 15ml.

The swatches are arranged according to the 2018 colour chart. Where I have swatches of the old and the new colour I've included both. These charts also have pigment information so are really helpful. I was told about these dot cards being available so have been able to update these swatches to include the full current range. I've added this information to the swatches, though sometimes it seems contradictory. The colour chart also shows a series of symbols Many of the problem fugitive colours have been reformulated :-) but there are a lot of two and three-pigment mixes. Note in this range there are only a possible three stars for lightfastness. They are available in 5ml and 15ml tubes and some pan colours. The 2018 colour chart shows 108 colours, without the pigment information. They generally rewet beautifully from the samples I have received so can be used fresh from the tube or dry in the palette. They claim that the pigments are more finely ground than in other ranges and describe themselves as 'a European style transparent watercolor which preserves the brush handling qualities inherent in Japanese watercolor techniques'. They don't contain any ox-gall, animal products or dispersing agents so are easy to control. Holbein from Japan has been making watercolour since the early1920s.

Daniel smith color chart