Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor – Joseph Z's Cool Grey, 15 ml tube

Name: Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor – Joseph Z's Cool Grey, 15 ml tube
Brand: Daniel Smith

Extra Fine Watercolor

$14.57

Blick Art Materials · recorded Oct 22, 2026

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Product details

Size: 15 ml
Blick SKU: 01767-2550

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 Violet

Pigment code: PV19
Type: organic synthetic, quinacridone
Chemical formula: C20H12N2O2
Properties: Quinacridone Red is a high performance, transparent pigment with an average drying time and uneven dispersal. It is another name for Quinacridone Violet (PV19) and Quinacridone Red (PR192). 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 Violet has excellent lightfastness and is considered the most lightfast organic pigment in this shade range.
Description: Quinacridone Red (PR192), Quinacridone Red (PR19), Gamma Quinacridone (PV19)

Lamp Black

Pigment code: PBk6
Type: inorganic
Chemical name: carbon
Chemical formula: C
Properties: Lamp black is a very opaque, heavily staining black pigment that does not have much covering power. It is typically the most opaque black in watercolor form. Though a very pure black, it tends to muddy slightly in mixtures, is one of the slowest drying pigments in oils, and should not be used under other colors.
Permanence: Lamp Black is very lightfast and absolutely permanent. It is used in all techniques in permanent painting.
Toxicity: Lamp Black is slightly toxic by skin contact and inhalation. It is a possible human carcinogen.
History: Lamp Black is a carbon based black traditionally produced by collecting soot (known as lampblack) from oil lamps. It is the black found in Egyptian murals and tomb decorations and was the most popular black for frescoing until the development of Mars Black.
Description: Carbon Black, Channel Black, Oil Black, Vegetable Black. Flame Black is an impure version of Lamp Black.

Cobalt Chromite Blue Green Spinel

Pigment code: PB36
Type: inorganic
Chemical name: Oxides of Cobalt and Chromium
Chemical formula: Co(Al,Cr)2O4
Properties: Cobalt Chromite Blue is an opaque pigment with moderately low tinting strength.
Permanence: Cobalt salts have excellent lightfastness and temperature stability.
Toxicity: Cobalt salts are toxic when ingested or inhaled, and slightly toxic on contact with the skin. Evidence of Chromium(III) carcinogenicity is inconclusive. Chromium(III) salts appear in greenish pigments.
Description: Cobalt Turquoise, Shepherd Blue, Cerulean Blue Chromium