Most colors carry the highest lightfastness rating, meaning colors won't fade for hundreds of years.
Even without layering, and even on wet paper, it's easy to build up a completely saturated masstone of most colors.Įach Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor is individually rated for lightfastness, granulation, staining, and opacity. Taken together, these three qualities make Extra Fine Watercolors the unparalleled leader in sheer amount of pigment attached to the page.
#COBALT TEAL BLUE PROFESSIONAL#
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.Ĭompared with the other brands of professional watercolor on the market, Daniel Smith stands out for its dense pigmentation, matte finish, and strongly adhesive binder. Still based in Seattle after 50 years, Daniel Smith also remains at the forefront of art materials innovation. Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor is not just the premier brand of American watercolor-it is the widest, most experimental range of watercolors in the world, with 266 colors and a never-ending flow of new ideas. The basic cobalt blue color, Pigment Blue 28, is produced by high-temperature calcination of cobalt (II) oxide (CoO) and aluminum oxide (Al2O4).
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