Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolor - Mars Yellow, 15 ml

Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors offer the widest range of lightfast, highly pigmented, and unique colors in the world. With more than 260 colors, you can find your creative inspiration in traditional watercolor hues, gorgeous earth colors, granulating paints made from minerals and gemstones, and bright, bold modern hues. Between the Extra Fine, PrimaTek, and Luminescent lines, you can paint anything you can imagine!

Each paint has excellent brushing properties and creates clean mixtures, whether mixing on the palette or layering washes. Formulated to meet and exceed the highest quality standards, each batch is analyzed for its performance qualities of lightfastness, color value, tinting strength, clarity, vibrancy, undertone, particle size, density, and viscosity. Made by hand in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Mars Yellow - To avoid instant mud in your watercolors, select lightfast Mars Yellow. This semi-transparent brownish yellow is low-staining, an ideal substitute for more transparent, higher staining pigments such as New Gamboge or Yellow Ochre. A wash of Mars Yellow adds gentle granulation to passages. Color-coordinate paintings using Mars Yellow with a Violet for subtle, muted warm grays.

This is a granulating color, meaning a grainy visual texture is created when the pigment particles settle and clump together rather than settling evenly on the painted surface. Granulation is more pronounced on textured papers.