We are proud to carry the exceptional line of DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine Watercolors. These paints are a go-to for many professional watercolorists. With DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Sets, pigments are key and each color offers unrivaled quality and versatility. The DANIEL SMITH color range offers 250 colors, of these 249 have a lightfast rating of LR I or LR II. DANIEL SMITH Finest Watercolors – A classic watercolor of unsurpassed purity and permanence.” The vision in the formulation of a new line of watercolors was twofold; * First and foremost, to produce watercolors that are the best in lightfastness and permanence. Experience the quality of color with DANIEL SMITH — Manufactured in the United States in Seattle! Daniel Smith has developed safe and vibrant Cadmium Hues with the density and richness of cadmium colors without the cadmium pigment. Virtually identical in color to their namesakes, they are cleaner in mixtures and much stronger in tints. The working properties – staining power, semi-transparency and excellent lightfastness – are nearly identical to those of the low-soluble cadmium colors Daniel Smith previously manufactured