Description
- 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.
- Regular colours - undiluted paint / paint diluted on watercolor paper.
- 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- Phthalo Green (Blue Shade) is dark in mass tone, very transparent with strong tinting power for mixing clear colors.
- Slightly cooler than Phthalo Green (Yellow Shade).
- Great quality paint starts with high quality raw materials and Daniel Smith on such bases.
- The best pigments in the world are combined with high quality refined linseed oil, selected for its light colour, low acidity, good traction and yellowing resistance.
- The ideal method of grinding is set for each pigment separately to obtain particle size that maximizes its specific characteristics.
- A small proportion of additives (less than 1% by weight) is included to improve brush application, pigment consistency with oil, and modification of drying time.
- These new oil colors are made with the same quality and care as our Original Oil Colors but with a specially modified linseed oil binder.
- Our Water Soluble Oil Colors are perfect for: Oil painters who are sensitive to or want to avoid exposure to solvents such as mineral spirits or turpentine.
- Students and teachers in schools and colleges where the use of oil color is prohibited because of solvents.
- Artists working in a shared studio space where the build up of solvent levels could lead to a harmful concentration of vapors and an unpleasant odor.
- Artists who work within a small home environment and wish to reduce the odor of oil painting.
- Artists that travel can transport these paints on airplanes subject to the approval of the airline.