Color, durability and lightfastness are the distinguishing features of Daniel Smith’s original oil paints. The paints are tested by placing the sample in a xenon meter for 10 days, corresponding to 100 years of sunlight.
Daniel Smith’s oil paints range includes historical colours, luminescence, and modern quinacridones. Most of the paints are made from individual pigments.
Luminescent colours are shown on a white and black background.
All colors offer uniform drying times, buttery consistency, excellent brushing, and a beautiful surface appearance. Made in our Seattle manufacturing facility from the highest quality raw materials, they have the most finely ground pigments in any color line.
Daniel Smith is the Innovative Manufacturer of Beautiful Watercolors for Artists Worldwide, and makes the largest range of watercolors of any manufacturer, more than 240 colors.
Carefully formulated ā For each color, Daniel Smith balances maximum pigment load with minimum vehicle content for the best possible color strength and lightfastness
Choice ingredients- Daniel Smith buys pure pigments from sources around the globe
Buttery consistency and excellent brushing properties
Exceptionally strong pigmentation
These professional quality oil paints feature superb color strength, reliable lightfastness and a uniform buttery consistency. The pure pigments are procured from sources around the world. The high-grade alkali-refined linseed oil used to create the paint is selected for its uniformity, light color, low-acid value, low-yellowing and good adhesion properties. Each batch is made by hand, with the utmost integrity and attention to detail.