Watercolor Paint

Make a splash with watercolor paints! Choose from watercolor tubes, watercolor pans, and liquid watercolors. Find the best watercolor paint for your skill level and technique. Watercolors can be used on paper and other absorbent surfaces that have been primed to accept water-based paint.

Watercolor Paint Tubes contain a full pigment load suspended in a water-soluble binder, generally natural gum Arabic. Use them on paper and other absorbent surfaces that have been primed to accept water-based paint.

Watercolor Pans, available in professional and student grades, offer pigment and binder in a dry form. Apply water with a brush to moisten the pan and lift the pigment. Use a palette with indentations to mix colors. Watercolor pans are ideal for field or outdoor painting and small-scale work.

Liquid Watercolors contain dyes as well as pigments, suspended in an aqueous medium. Because they are moist and fluid, they're suited to thin washes and airbrush applications as well as conventional brushwork. Many of the more brilliant colors are fugitive (not lightfast), so liquid watercolors are often used for illustrations that will be scanned for reproduction.

Student Watercolors have working characteristics similar to professional watercolors but with lower concentrations of pigment and a smaller range of colors. More expensive pigments are generally replicated by hues.

Kids' Watercolor Pans contain inexpensive pigments and dyes suspended in a synthetic binder. Washable formulas feature colors that are chosen to be non-staining, easily washable, and suitable for use by young children with proper supervision. They're an excellent choice for teaching beginning artists painting techniques and basic color theory.

Daniel Smith

Available in an astounding range of colors, Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors are made by hand in Seattle, Washington. This superior-quality watercolor line includes historical hues, amazing earth, and some of the brightest and boldest quinacridones ever formulated.

More highly pigmented and finely ground than any watercolors on the market, Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors also boast superior lightfastness, with colors rated LR I or II. They have excellent brushing properties, resulting in clear, clean washes even when colors are layered.

Daniel Smith's PrimaTek Watercolors let you flood your work with antiquity's most precious hues, such as Hematite, Tiger's Eye, Rhodonite, and Lapis Lazuli — gemstones and minerals that have captured artists' imaginations for hundreds if not thousands of years. These colors are made with authentic mineral pigments. Their effects are amazing and diverse, from warm and subtle to sparkling and vibrant.

Holbien

Holbein Artists' Watercolors are imported from Japan, a country with the oldest professional watercolor tradition in the world. Japanese colors have always been renowned for their brilliance, and Holbein continues in the same tradition.

For more than a century, the Holbein color laboratories have produced a full-range palette of transparent watercolors that not only achieve world-class standards in lightfastness and color vigor, they also retain their clean, crisp, brilliant characteristics over long periods.

In addition to the pigments that are traditionally used in European art, the Holbein watercolor collection contains many exceptional and brilliant colors that are not found in other watercolor lines.

Holbein does not contain ox-gall or any other dispersants that inhibit optimum brush handling qualities. This makes Holbein ideal for painting in the Japanese watercolor tradition, where brushstrokes are often preserved. Holbein is the perfect choice for fine detail work such as lettering and scrolling.

Winsor & Newton

Winsor & Newton Professional Watercolor Tubes are renowned for their enduring quality and heritage dating back to 1832. Trusted by renowned artists like John Singer Sargent, these watercolors combine historical recipes with modern advancements in pigment technology. Powerful, luminous, and unparalleled in their clarity, an expansive range of over 100 colors allows artists to create a palette that best suits their work.

Individually crafted for optimal pigment dispersion, over half the range features single-pigment formulations for predictable and accurate color mixtures. Colors are thoroughly tested for lightfastness and tint strength to ensure your work remains vibrant over time. A range of granulating colors allows artists to achieve beautiful textures that can be maximized through mixing.

MaimeriBlu

Each Maimeri Blu Artist Watercolor is crafted from a single pigment — no pre-mixed convenience colors, no shortcuts. This unique approach makes the range a standout for artists who demand unparalleled color purity and professional-grade performance.

The Milan-based brand's commitment to "an absolute purity of pigments" results in cleaner mixtures and a more intuitive, true-to-pigment painting experience. Pigments are individually processed to achieve optimal particle size, and each batch is rigorously tested for lightfastness, viscosity, and stability over time. The range also includes a selection of rare and unusual pigments — highlights include an advanced, truly neutral Neutral Tint and an impressive array of cobalt blues, turquoise, and greens.

Beyond its unique range, MaimeriBlu Artist Watercolor Tubes offer excellent handling and a thick (but never sticky) paint body that allows for both deep, intense marks and transparent washes. Every pigment has been awarded the highest lightfastness rating, ensuring your artwork remains vibrant and durable over time.

M. Graham

Artist and master paint maker Art Graham put many decades of experience at other companies behind him and started his own company based on his own vision and his own values. What a magnificent addition to the professional artist's palette! M. Graham Watercolors are manufactured in small batches with pure honey, gum Arabic, glycerin, and the finest pigments available. Each color's formula is individually developed and crafted to bring out the unique character of the pigment. Each color in this small watercolor line is intensely pigmented, and every color is based on a single pigment, except a few convenience mixtures of historic colors. Best of all, each transparent color has a counterpart in the M. Graham Gouache line, perfect for adding detail and areas of opaque color. Colors made with honey do not dry up in the tube or on the palette, and they always dilute easily, often after months or years of disuse. Honey has been used extensively throughout the history of art as an ingredient in water-based colors.