DANIEL SMITH

Daniel Smith manufactures the widest range of extra fine watercolors to the highest quality and standards for products that artists can count on year after year. Daniel Smith founder and artist Dan Smith founded the company in 1976 to make artist colors that were made from the highest quality ingredients, with no fillers, and were lightfats, standards that he and his artist friends found lacking for artist colors. artists.
After a few years Dan retired and John Cogley bought Daniel Smith Inc. . John continues to uphold those high standards to make the world's best watercolors and other products for artists.
Daniel Smith was the first to make artist's paint with brilliant, highly transparent quinacrinadone pigments and continues to develop many innovative products such as primatek colors made from minerals, which are mined from the earth, ground into pigments and milled into artists' colors. The collection of luminescent paints are special artist colors that help capture the iridescent color found in nature that traditional watercolors and oils cannot portray. Watercolor grounds allow artists to paint surfaces beyond traditional watercolor paper.
Daniel Smith makes the largest selection of watercolors in the world, more than 250. Why so many colors? Because artists need color options to find the colors that are right for them, with the properties that best suit their needs. Daniel Smith respects those needs by offering artists the widest range of yellows, oranges, reds, violets, blues, greens, earths, grays and blacks in the world.
Due to its high level of standards and its innovation, artists from all over the world choose Daniel Smith watercolors, which makes it the world's leading manufacturer of watercolors.