Watercolors

As an internationally recognized name in the art community, Daniel Smith has built its reputation on thinking like an artist and thinking for the artist. Daniel Smith's watercolors are made of superior quality and often offer colors available nowhere else.

Extra Fine Watercolors With over 200 unique color choices, Daniel Smith offers the most complete selection of watercolor colors on the market. The quinacridone range of Daniel Smith Watercolors is still the largest of any manufacturer. In addition, they offer an extensive selection of blue, red violet and "earth" or iron oxide pigments.

PrimaTek Watercolors represent the finest in historical, natural mineral watercolor pigments. Comprised of extremely fine ground semiprecious minerals, and manufactured mineral colorants, PrimaTek Watercolors harken back to the times of ancient frescoes and classical color properties not seen in modern, synthetic pigmentation.

Luminescent Watercolors add more than just shimmer and shine to traditional watercolors. While these pigments do possess reflective qualities, they also add dimension, brightness, tone and texture when mixed with standard watercolors. By mixing a standard pigment with an interference color the resulting pigment will be lighter, brighter and posess an additional reflective hue.

Extra Fine Watercolor Sticks offer the same superior intensity as the Extra Fine Watercolor paints with the ease and portability of half pans. Each stick is packed with pure pigment and produces vibrant, strong color when wet or use them dry to build texture. They're highly reactive with water and release rich, creamy colors.

Holbein Professional Grade Watercolors provide a full range of vibrant, traditional pigments manufactured in Japan. The best selling watercolors across Europe, Holbein watercolors are specially formulated without dispersing agents, making these an excellent choice for artists interested in creating their own custom pans. Dried Holbein watercolors will not crack, chip or mold to the palette. With its thick consistency and high pigment load, Holbein is a superb choice for retaining brushstrokes or creating fine details like lettering.

Winsor & Newton Fine Artist Watercolors have a long tradition of quality among artists since its founding in England in 1832. Artists working with these paints repeatedly remark on the light, flowing texture of the paint, and its ability to dry quickly on the paper. With 96 professional colors, the majority single-pigment paints, Winsor & Newton pigments are milled to a super micron fineness and suspended  in Gum Arabic, along with other popular binders.

Based out of California, DaVinci Paints Co. has been producing professional, artist grade paints for over 70 years. These watercolors have a uniformly smooth, syrupy texture and dissolve promptly in water. Providing exceptional quality at an affordable price, DaVinci watercolors can be used in either, wet-in-wet or dry-on-wet applications.

With exceptional quality, Van Gogh Watercolors may be some of the finest economical paints around. Using the same top quality raw materials as their professional line, Van Gogh watercolor pigments have an opaque cast and brilliant color. Omitting only the most costly and toxic pigments, high-quality pigment substitutes make these watercolors safe for educational use. With lightfast and brilliant colors, the Van Gogh line offers clarity, light-fastness and easy handling for an affordable price.

Fine Art Liquid Watercolor is a light-fast, professional watercolor liquid of archival quality.
Available in 36 concentrated pigments, these watercolors are the brightest translucent dyes available. Liquid watercolors can be applied with brush, pen, technical pen or airbrush, and are used primarily in graphic arts and illustration, although they are a popular choice for airbrush artists and screen printers.

For a student's first foray into watercolors, Reeves Watercolor paints are the most economical choice. Sold in prepackaged sets, the Reeves brand offers tubes along with painting tips helpful for young artist in all of us.

Watercolor Pencils contain the highest quality pigments for artist quality light-fastness. Pencils from Faber-Castell are fully water soluble, blending to create brilliant and complex watercolor effects. When dry, Faber-Castell pencils are permanent and of archival quality. Leads 3.8 mm thick are cased in cedar with resin bonding to help prevent breakage while ensuring fine lines and excellent point retention.

Neocolor II Watercolor Crayons are softer than colored pencils, denser than wax crayons, and firmer than oil pastels. This unique material can be smudged by finger or layered and scraped to produce a sgraffito effect, giving artists the ability to work with both and wet and dry techniques within the same piece. The brilliance and density of the pigments in these watercolor crayons let light colors cover dark colors easily to produce a watercolor in a class all its own.