Best of DANIEL SMITH - Top 5 Watercolor Favorites Set

Not only have these been selected over and over as favorite colors - most often chosen for studio and plein air palettes - but when combined as a set these five pigments are also a complete and wonderful mixing combination.

• New Gamboge - Unlike other brands, Daniel Smith New Gamboge is an excellent lightfast formulation. It's a transparent organic pigment from the yellow to orange zone of your color wheel. More staining than Yellow Ochre and equal in tinting ability to Raw Sienna. It's a good substitute for those colors when transparency is desired while avoiding thick, muddy passages.
• French Ultramarine - A wonderful sky pigment. Mix French Ultramarine with Quinacridone Burnt Orange and be rewarded with an amazing range of blue to brown grays. Mixed with Quinacridone Rose and a range of purples result. For another important mix,try Sap Green.
• Quinacridone Burnt Orange - Add to French Ultramarine and create dramatic sky washes with a gray-blue mix that renders a full value scale. Use Quinacridone Burnt Orange to modify Sap Green in landscapes to achieve rich, mossy greens that coordinate land with sky.
• Quinacridone Rose - This red-violet color, lends itself to fabulous purples. Quinacridone Rose can be mixed with Quinacridone Burnt Orange in diluted washes to create fleshtones or convincing sunsets.
• Sap Green - Mixes well with most pigments and leaves a stained residue when lifted. In French Ultramarine or Quinacridone mixtures, squeegee or knife areas to reveal the Sap Green stain and to create blades of spring-shiny grasses within deeper or mossy passages.
• Fabriano Studio Watercolor 9.5x12.5 Pad, 25 sheets