As an artist, I have tried multiple watercolor brands and products since 1999, to find what works best for my style. With 259 colors, DANIEL SMITH offers me the broadest range of watercolors in the market. I love to capture the light and atmosphere of a scene for my paintings with neutral tones I make by mixing DANIEL SMITH earth colors with French Ultramarine. DANIEL SMITH Quinacridone Watercolors give me vivid, highly transparent color, and they blend smoothly on paper. The granulating capacities of many of their pigments give me different dimensions and textures in my paintings, and nearly all the watercolors have excellent lightfastness.   —Prafull B. Sawant