
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor - Quinacridone Sienna, 15 ml Tube
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Product details
- Size
- 15 ml
- Blick SKU
- 01767-1051
About this product range
- Professional-quality
- Widest color range available on the market
- Maximum pigment loads
- Excellent lightfastness
- Natural granulation and distinctive pigment properties
- Handmade in the USA
Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors offer exceptional vibrancy, versatility, and performance trusted by professional artists worldwide. Crafted with pure, finely ground pigments and a gum arabic binder, each color delivers rich, luminous washes, remarkable blending, and stunning transparency or granulation—depending on the pigment’s natural properties.
Whether you're working with historical earth tones, intense quinacridones, or mineral-based PrimaTek colors, each tube provides a unique painting experience. These watercolors are rigorously tested to ensure consistent pigment load, exceptional lightfastness, and true-to-tube quality every time.
Pigment information
General reference notes about pigments can describe other media (such as oil). They do not verify this product’s exact formulation or behavior.
Quinacridone Gold
- Pigment code
- PO48
- Type
- organic, quinacridone
- Chemical formula
- C20H12N2O2 or C20H10N2O4
- Properties
- Quinacridone Gold is a high performance pigment. It lacks brightness and cleanliness in tints, and it may disperse unevenly. It has an average drying time. Quinacridone pigments have relatively low tinting strength in general. For this reason, quinacridone colors are often expensive, because more pigment is required in the formulation.
- Permanence
- Quinacridone Gold has excellent lightfastness and is considered the most lightfast pigment in its shade range.
- Toxicity
- Quinacridone gold is not considered toxic. Overexposure to quinacridone pigments may cause skin irritation. Quinicridone pigments contain a compound found to be a skin, eye, and respiratory irritant.
- History
- Although quinacridone compounds became known in the late 19th century, methods of manufacturing so as to make them practical for use as commercial pigments did not begin until the 1950s. Quinacridone pigments were first developed as coatings for the automotive industry, but were quickly adopted by artists.
- Description
- Pigment Orange 48, Quinacridone Orange, Quinacridone Burnt Orange
Quinacridone Red
- Pigment code
- PR209
- Type
- organic, quinacridone
- Properties
- Quinacridone Red is a bright, clean red pigment with average drying time. Quinacridone pigments have relatively low tinting strength in general. For this reason, quinacridone colors are often expensive, because more pigment is required in the formulation.
- Permanence
- Quinacridone Red has excellent permanence and lightfastness.
- Toxicity
- Quinacridone Red has no known acute hazards. Overexposure to quinacridone pigments may cause skin irritation. Quinicridone pigments contain a compound found to be a skin, eye, and respiratory irritant.
- History
- Although quinacridone compounds became known in the late 19th century, methods of manufacturing so as to make them practical for use as commercial pigments did not begin until the 1950s. Quinacridone pigments were first developed as coatings for the automotive industry, but were quickly adopted by artists.
Nickel Azo Yellow
- Pigment code
- PY150
- Type
- inorganic
- Chemical name
- nickel azomethine yellow
- Chemical formula
- C30H18Cl2N6NiO4
- Properties
- Nickel Azo Yellow is a transparent, moderately staining yellow pigment with high tinting strength. It is considered a good color match in botanical and landscape painting for natural gamboge (NY24), a historic yellow pigment with fair to poor lightfastness.
- Permanence
- Nickel azomethine yellow has excellent lightfastness.
- Toxicity
- Nickel azo yellow pigment is mildly toxic, and is often labeled as hazardous. Avoid respiratory and skin exposure to pigment dust. It should be disposed of properly with other hazardous wastes, not washed down the sink.
- History
- Nickel azomethine yellow has been developed as an artist pigment becasue it is a close match for gamboge, a historic yellow.
- Description
- Gamboge Hue, New Gamboge.
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