DANIEL SMITH Water Soluble Oil Colors

Get The feel, control, and rich appearance of classic oil paints

With DANIEL SMITH Water Soluble Oil Paints, if you love the feel, control, and rich appearance of classic oil paints, but don't like the toxic solvents and tedious clean up, you will want to try our fantastic new paints. Vibrant, highly pigmented colors offer outstanding color strength, even when mixed with Titanium White. 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, DANIEL SMITH Water Soluble Oils have the most finely ground pigments in any color line.

DANIEL SMITH Water Soluble Oil Colors can be thinned with water. Brushes and palettes clean up easily with soap and warm water. 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 and dry times are slightly slower

Every tube of DANIEL SMITH Water Soluble Oils is filled and labeled by hand. All labels give complete information including the common pigment names, color index names and numbers and ASTM lightfastness ratings, keeping artists informed when they choose DANIEL SMITH Water Soluble Oils.

Why use Daniel Smith Water Soluble Oil Paints?

1. Oil painters who are sensitive to or want to avoid exposure to solvents such as mineral spirits or turpentine.
2. Students and teachers in schools and colleges where the use of oil color is prohibited because of solvents.
3. 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.
4. Artists who work within a small home environment and wish to reduce the odor of oil painting.
5. Artists that travel can transport these paints on airplanes subject to the approval of the airline.

Clean up easily with water, use soap if using a staining pigment.

• 43 Colors – Highly pigmented and extremely vibrant.
• 33 Single Pigment Colors – Single pigment colors provide clear and clean mixes.
• 42 Colors with Lightfast Rating (LR) I or II LR rating I = 100+ years LR rating II = 100 Lightfastness rating is a measurement of how many years the color in your artwork will remain the same.
• 11 Quinacridone Colors – The Quinacridone family of colors (pronounced kwin ak’ ri doan) are high-performance pigments with outstanding transparency and color intensity.