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Daniel Smith Original Watercolor Set – Artist Watercolor Set, 12 Half Pans

Brand: DANIEL SMITH
The Daniel Smith Original Watercolor Set is a classic artist-grade travel palette featuring 12 hand-poured half pans in a durable metal tin. Designed for everyday use, plein air, and travel, it offers a balanced selection of essential and earth tones with excellent mixing performance.
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Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors are widely recognized as some of the finest artist-grade watercolors in the world. Handcrafted in the USA since 1993, they are known for their exceptional pigment load, excellent lightfastness, and superior rewetting performance.

Each half pan is hand-poured in a three-stage process, taking months to complete. The paints activate instantly with a wet brush — no pre-spraying required.

The Original Set comes in a robust metal travel tin designed for real-world painting:

  • 12 filled half pans
  • 12 empty half pans for customization
  • Multiple enamel-coated mixing areas
  • Removable center tray revealing additional mixing surfaces
  • Space for a small brush
  • Metal finger ring for secure handling
  • Waterproof acetate color chart included

The color selection includes warm and cool primaries, a versatile secondary green, and four earth tones — a solid foundation for almost any subject.

🎨 The set includes 12 half pans:

  • Buff Titanium
  • Hansa Yellow Light
  • Hansa Yellow Medium
  • Hansa Yellow Deep
  • Pyrrol Scarlet
  • Quinacridone Rose
  • Cerulean Blue, Chromium
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Sap Green
  • Yellow Ochre
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Raw Umber

👉 Features:

  • Artist-grade extra fine watercolors
  • 12 hand-poured half pans + 12 empty pans
  • Instant activation — no spraying needed
  • Balanced palette of primaries and earth tones
  • Fully equipped metal travel tin
  • Multiple enamel mixing surfaces
  • Excellent lightfastness (ASTM rated)
  • Handcrafted in the USA

👍 Ideal for:

  • Everyday watercolor painting
  • Travel & plein air work
  • Urban sketching
  • Beginners and advanced artists alike

Inspiration Tip:

Use Buff Titanium for soft highlights and combine Raw Umber or Burnt Sienna for natural shadows — a reliable foundation for landscapes and architectural studies.

🎨 Why artist-grade materials matter

Artist-grade doesn’t mean “only for professionals.”
It means cleaner materials, predictable behavior and a better creative experience — for everyone.

When you work with artist-grade paints, it’s easier to understand:

  • how color flows
  • how it mixes
  • how it reacts to water and paper

This makes the creative process clearer, more enjoyable and far less frustrating.

🧠 Better materials = better learning

Artist-grade materials use pure pigments, not fillers that dull or distort color.
What you see on the paper is real color behavior — not a compromise.

This helps:

  • beginners learn with confidence
  • crafters grow creatively
  • artists work with control

🎨 It’s not about level — it’s about experience

You don’t have to “earn” good materials.
Good materials are the ones that:

  • teach you the medium
  • encourage experimentation
  • make you want to keep creating

That’s why children, beginners and hobby creators often benefit even more from artist-grade supplies.

🌱 Creating without friction

When the material works as it should:

  • you stop fighting the paint
  • you stop questioning yourself
  • you enjoy the process

Creation becomes play, learning and expression — all at once.

Our philosophy at Scraps n Pieces

At Scraps n Pieces, we believe that:

artist-grade materials don’t just elevate results —
they elevate the joy of creating.

And that joy should be accessible to everyone.