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DANIEL SMITH Half Pans – 6 Hand Poured Watercolor Sets!

Written by Charlie O'Shields

Doodlewash® is thrilled to have DANIEL SMITH as a World Watercolor Month Official Sponsor and so happy to share this exciting preview of the new DANIEL SMITH half pans coming this fall! 

We’re excited to be a part of World Watercolor Month here on Doodlewash, and to have the opportunity to announce our NEW DANIEL SMITH Hand Poured Watercolor Half Pan Sets! So many artists have asked for Daniel Smith half pans, we listened, and beginning in October, these NEW Watercolor Sets will be available at your favorite art store!

Daniel Smith Half Pans – Overview Of The 6 Sets

Daniel Smith Half Pans Watercolor Set PhotoWe have, with excellent color suggestions from artists, created Six DANIEL SMITH Hand Poured Watercolor Half Pan Sets:

  1. Colors of Inspiration Set, 6 colors
  2. Floral – Colors of Inspiration Set, 6 colors
  3. Blues – Serene to Dramatic Set, 6 colors
  4. Earth – Desert to Mountains Set, 6 colors
  5. Sketcher Set, 6 colors
  6. Ultimate Mixing Set, 15 colors

It’s all about COLOR and giving You an exciting painting experience with these special collections of DANIEL SMITH watercolor!  Paint, mix, play with color and discover new color combinations that will inspire you! Read on to learn more about each of the 6 new sets along with color swatches! 

Colors Of Inspiration Set

This hand poured watercolor half pan set has 6 unique(*) DANIEL SMITH colors to inspire you with new creative mixes and colors. These are colors we choose for artists who love active watercolors which participate in the creative painting process!

  • Wisteria*
  • Lavender*
  • Rose of Ultramarine*
  • Moonglow*
  • Shadow Violet*
  • Serpentine Genuine* (one of our PrimaTek Watercolors)
DANIEL SMITH Half Pans Watercolor Set 1 Colors of Inspiration - Doodlewash
Colors Of Inspiration Set

Floral – Colors of Inspiration Set

This hand poured watercolor half pan set has 2 unique* DANIEL SMITH colors plus 4 other colors important for painting flowers from nature and from fancy.  Find out what beautiful flowers you can create with colors like these!

  • Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue
  • Quinacridone Gold
  • Quinacridone Rose
  • Phthalo Blue (Green Shade)
  • Cascade Green*
  • Green Apatite Genuine* (one of our PrimaTek Watercolors)
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Floral – Colors of Inspiration Set

Blues – Serene to Dramatic Set

This hand poured watercolor half pan set has 4 unique* DANIEL SMITH colors plus, 2 true blues for seas and skies.  These colors help create a huge, expressive range of blues from calm water and boundless skies, to energetic and stormy ones!

  • Cerulean Blue
  • Lunar Blue*
  • Blue Apatite Genuine* (one of our PrimaTek Watercolors)
  • Payne’s Blue Gray *
  • Indigo
  • Sodalite Genuine* (one of our PrimaTek Watercolors)
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Blues – Serene to Dramatic Set

Earth – Desert to Mountains Set

This hand poured watercolor half pan set has 3 unique(*) DANIEL SMITH colors plus 3 steadfast, earthy colors to take you from desert landscapes to rugged mountains, and even picturesque urban landscapes of stone, stucco, adobe and tile!

  • Buff Titanium*
  • Raw Sienna Light
  • Bronzite Genuine* (one of our PrimaTek Watercolors)
  • Venetian Red
  • Burnt Sienna Light
  • Lunar Black*
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Earth – Desert to Mountains Set

Sketcher Set

This hand poured watercolor half pan set has 1 unique* DANIEL SMITH color plus 5 faithful colors, all easily carried for chronicling the places you encounter, and capturing them as illustrated memories.  Where will these colors take you?

  • Hansa Yellow Medium
  • Quinacridone Rose
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Cerulean Blue, Chromium
  • Monte Amiata Natural Sienna*
  • Transparent Red Oxide
DANIEL SMITH Half Pans Watercolor Set 5 Sketchers Liz Steel - Doodlewash
Sketchers Set

Ultimate Mixing Set

This hand poured watercolor half pan set has 3 unique* DANIEL SMITH colors, including our NEW Jane’s Grey, plus 12 more colors that feature different watercolor properties, colormix beautifully and allow you to create of a vast spectrum of colors and effects.  The challenging process of selecting an excellent performing palette of colors has been done and is now ready for you!

  • Buff Titanium*
  • Hansa Yellow Medium
  • Quinacridone Gold
  • Pyrrol Scarlet
  • Permanent Alizarin Crimson
  • Quinacridone Rose
  • Ultramarine Blue
  • Cerulean Blue, Chromium
  • Phthalo Blue (Green Shade)
  • Phthalo Green (Blue Shade)
  • Goethite (Brown Ochre)*
  • Burnt Sienna
  • Indian Red
  • Raw Umber
  • Jane’s Grey* [New Color!]
DANIEL SMITH Half Pans Watercolor Set 6 Ultimate Mixing Jane Blundell - Doodlewash
Ultimate Mixing Set

We are excited that artists Jane Blundell, Jean Haines, Liz Steel, Brenda Swenson, Julie Karlsson and more, will be writing articles about their favorite DANIEL SMITH Watercolor Half Pan Sets, and showing how they are inspired by the colors!  Please watch for these articles on DANIELSMITH.com, Facebook and Instagram.

Daniel Smith Half Pan Ultimate Mixing Set Product Photo
Photo of Actual Product – Ultimate Mixing Set

Hand Poured Watercolor

Following in the Daniel Smith Tradition of manufacturing the finest, handcrafted paints and products, our pans are hand poured. Hand Pouring pans is incredibly labor intensive but offers the purest form of professional watercolor half pans.  It takes 3 to 4 pours over a period of several months of drying to produce each half pan of DANIEL SMITH Watercolor.

Features Of DANIEL SMITH Half Pans

  • Hand Crafted
  • MADE IN USA
  • 3-4 pours from start to finish – months to complete each pan
  • Professional Artists Quality
  • Finest pigments
  • Highest pigment load
  • Re-wets quickly
  • Consistency
  • Exceptional Lightfast Pigments
  • 38 colors available throughout 6 select sets.  18 colors are unique only to DANIEL SMITH including 5 PrimaTeks
  • DANIEL SMITH uses the exact same formula for both tube and pan colors
  • Portable and Easy to use. Perfect for travel, plein air, urban sketching and exploring unique color combinations
  • New color (available in pans only) Jane’s Grey
  • Pans are not available in open stock

UPDATE: DANIEL SMITH Hand Poured Watercolor Half Pan Sets release date – sets will be in stores by the end of October. Ask for availability at your favorite Art Supply Store!

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Charlie O'Shields

Creator of Doodlewash, founder of World Watercolor Month (July), World Watercolor Group, and host of the Sketching Stuff Podcast. Sharing watercolor illustrations and stories while proudly featuring talented artists from all over the world!

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  8. I’m so excited!! This will be a great way to try more colors!! And the different palettes look great….I think I want them all 🙂

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  9. When I saw the initial teaser photo, I thought “hmmm…those look like Jane Blundell’s ultimate mixing colors” because…I have one palette set up with those 😉 I’m intrigued by the choices in the Sketcher’s set because I’ve recently swapped both transp red oxide and Monte Amiata natural sienna into my own palette (replacing burnt sienna and yellow ocher/raw sienna).

    Seems rather silly that they won’t do open stock as well. I can definitely vouch for a big difference in how those hand poured pans look compared to MY “hand poured” pans of DS paints 😉

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  25. Which one to choose? Each set has its own beauty and I want them all. Time to buckle down the budget because the Ultimate Mixing Set is definitely coming home with me! Thanks for the exciting report, Charlie!

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  26. Hello Charlie, What a fun site and wonderful news. I’ve not felt confident yet to participate with world watercolor month but I’m getting close. I’m currently putting together a travel set with my Daniel Smith Watercolor sticks to teach myself color mixing and used Jane’s suggested colors to get me started. It will be interesting for me to learn how different the stick form is in comparison to the hand poured half pans. I’m sure I will be purchasing a new DS palette or two when they are available since I can’t resist…… Anyway, I will be back to read more on this resourceful site.

    Warm regards,
    ~ Karla

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    1. Yay! Yes, these sets are going to be so awesome!! So happy you found Doodlewash, Karla! 🙂 You can also log in to this site with Facebook and post here as well.. it’s a super supportive and much smaller community and there’s also a Beginner’s to Watercolor group! Hope you’ll check it out! My post today, for Day 11, is all about conquering my own shyness. I was terrified to post anything and just went for it… and well… this site happened. 😉 So now I just say go for it!

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  31. Wow! Daniel Smith is finally giving Schmincke a run for their money with hand-poured half-pans! I wonder if they’ll eventually expand it to all of their line like Schmincke already has. This is great news!

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  35. The Daniel Smith Ultimate Mixing Set has a suggested retail price of US$114.60. It comes with two of the 15-half pan palettes and 30 half pans — so 15 extra half pans.

    The Daniel Smith half pan sets with six colors have a suggested retail price of US$55.31. These will come in the same 15-half pan palette and include 15 half pans (so nine extra half pans).

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  38. Daniel Smith is actually one of the best brands of watercolors, and this sets will be very popular among watercolorist. I can’t wait to get one and do some plain air this fall… South Indiana is a great spot to be in the fall and that’s where I am…. What a luck!!!!

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  41. This isn’t exactly the Ultimate mixing set. The actual set has pyrrol crimson in the set but this one has permanent alizarin crimson instead. Why were these switched I wonder?

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