Many artists struggle to choose the right watercolor paints. I created a paint database with the best swatches so you can see how paints look on paper and how they mix. Save time and money, build your perfect watercolor palette, and let your paints bring you joy.

Daniel Smith, 220 swatches
Rosa Gallery, 86 swatches
Golden QOR, 75 swatches
Shminke Horadam Aquarell, 56 swatches
Roman Szmal Aquarius, 36 swatches
Winsor & Newton Professional, 19 swatches
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Articles and Blog entries

Cobalts

Why do cobalt paints have different colors?

(1 min read)

My Extended 29-color Watercolor Palette

(1 min read)

Haze and Urban by Schmincke Horadam Aquarell

(1 min read)

Horadam 50 dot card, Roman Szmal pans and Glacier Green tube

(1 min read)

Power Plant 3.0 palette

(1 min read)

My minimal basic Watercolor Palette

(7 min read)

Green Golds

Verditers

Mauves

Sulfur pigments, Aluminosilicates, Ultramarines

Quinacridones

Cadmiums

Coppers

Phthalocyanines

Iron oxides: Umbers, Siennas, Ochre, Prussian Blue, and Caput Mortuum

Manganese

Rose Madder

(3 min read)

Carmine

Titaniums

Chromiums

Carbons

Sienna

Ochre

Umber

Hue and Permanents

(4 min read)

Hooker’s Greens

(1 min read)

Van Dycks

(1 min read)

Payne’s Greys

(1 min read)

Jane’s Grey and Jane’s Black

(1 min read)

Naples Yellows


More swatches

White watercolors

What is white as a color? How to use white and other opaque pigments without losing that watercolor feel?

(8 min read)

Violet watercolors

Blue watercolors

Green watercolors

Yellow watercolors

Orange watercolors

Red watercolors

Brown watercolors

Black watercolors

Glacier Green by Shminke Horadam Aquarell

(1 min read)

PrimaTek Watercolors all

(1 min read)

Rosa Gallery all

(1 min read)

Roman Szmal Aquarius all

(1 min read)

Daniel Smith all

(1 min read)

Royal Talens Van Gogh Watercolour all

(1 min read)

QoR Introductory 6 Set

QoR Earth Colors 6 Set

QoR High Chroma 6 Set

QoR Introductory 12 Set

QoR mini