Daniel Smith is a professional range of watercolour of the very highest quality and is the widest range of professional watercolours available on the market. They meet the very highest possible standards and offer intense, transparent colour with excellent lightfastness.

Artist Tom Shepherd brings us this exclusive tutorial to help gain a first-hand insight into Daniel Smith watercolours. Watch below and discover the techniques and nuances of this range as Tom shares insights to enhance your watercolour practice.

DANIEL SMITH

Produced in a spectrum of 238 colours in 15ml and 5ml tubes, Daniel Smith watercolours cover a range of hues from the soft and earthy to radiant and strong. They possess a rich texture and are of a professional artist quality. This quality consistency of these watercolours is the result of years of experience and expertise in the paint-making business.

Key Features:

Unique Pigments

Their pigments are renowned for their exceptional quality and vibrant characteristics. Crafted with precision and expertise, they offer an extensive range of unique colours that captivate artists with their brilliance and clarity. Renowned for their lightfastness and intensity, Daniel Smith paints are made using high-quality pigments sourced from around the globe, ensuring consistency and richness across their palette.

Quinacridones

Quinacridones are vibrant colours produced with modern technology. These synthetic organic compounds have a brilliance, lightfastness and clarity that traditional pigments cannot achieve. The Quinacridone family is a group of warm coloured paints. They range from yellow gold colours, through siennas and pinks, to deep violet shades. The chemical structure of these compounds yields the reddish colour that can be seen as an undertone in all these pigments.

Primatek

Also within the Daniel Smith range, there are 30 colours produced with pigments mined from the earth. These PrimaTek paints have minerals sourced from locations as far-flung as Brazil, Alaska, Australia, Canada and Africa. Colours that date back to prehistoric times are beautifully revived by Daniel Smith for artists working today. These minerals undergo a thorough process of extraction and refinement, resulting this range of colours displaying natural granulation that can therefore add depth and texture to the paintings.

Quinacridones

Also in the range are Quinacridones, vibrant colours produced with modern technology. These synthetic organic compounds have a brilliance, lightfastness and clarity that traditional pigments cannot achieve. The Quinacridone family is a group of warm coloured paints. They range from yellow gold colours, through siennas and pinks, to deep violet shades. The chemical structure of these compounds yields the reddish colour that can be seen as an undertone in all these pigments.

Sustainable

The minerals that are used in the production of Daniel Smith pigments are renewable resources. This sustainable process used by Daniel Smith ensures that these resources continue to be responsibly utilized for artistic purposes.

Using Daniel Smith Extra Fine watercolours is a genuinely enjoyable experience and their passion and innovation behind the colours they produce, results in beautifully unique results. Artist Tom Shepherd brings us this tutorial on what makes Daniel Smith so unique

ABOUT TOM

Tom started off his art career creating custom artwork on guitars using graffiti pens. Making a move towards a brush and more traditional mediums opened up a whole new world to Tom, and he hasn’t looked back since.

His work has become widely collected in the UK and more recently, internationally. He has been a highly commended finalist in the World renowned Wildlife Artist of the Year, on several occasions.

Whilst Tom loves painting a wide variety of subjects, especially if the light is doing something interesting, he is always drawn back to the place where his first two passions met; painting wildlife, in particular birds.

"The free-flowing and immediate nature of watercolour seems to lend itself so well to capturing the fleeting moments of wildlife; along with their movement, character and colours"

TOM SHEPHERD

Watch as Tom takes us behind the scenes with this watercolour tutorial using Daniel Smith. He explores a beautiful range of Turquoise hues to showcase their granulation, mixing properties and much more in his unique painting style. Enjoy!

Be sure to check out more of Tom's amazing work on his website!