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Spotlight on Da Vinci Roses & Reds
Da Vinci Paints offers artists a wide variety of brilliant, professional-grade pinks, roses, fuchsias, crimsons, and reds, and many of these are crafted using quinacridone pigments. Learn about and compare the different quinacridone-based roses and reds that Da Vinci offers so you can find a quin (or five) that you love!
Mixing Colors with Da Vinci Summer Watercolor Set
Learn about Da Vinci Paints Summer Watercolor Set, a full 6-color watercolor palette, and how to use these colors to create mixes that can be used all year long. Also, we share ideas for incorporating these amazing colors into your own artist palette!
Fresh Watercolor Palettes for Spring
Da Vinci Paints Bright Spring Watercolor Set and Light Spring Watercolor Set each contain 6 professional colors and are custom curated to work independently, or combine both palettes for a 12-color combination that’s perfect for spring or any season.
Da Vinci Paints Ambassador Charlie O’Shields
All about Da Vinci Paints Ambassador Artist Charlie O’Shields, the creator of Doodlewash and Sketching Stuff and also the founder of World Watercolor Month. Join us as Charlie talks about his creative process along with his custom Da Vinci paint color, Charlie O’Blue, and his curated Da Vinci watercolor sets.
Da Vinci Paints Ambassador Joyce Hicks
Featuring Da Vinci Paint Ambassador Artist Joyce Hicks, an award winning artist, a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, and the curator of several popular Da Vinci Paint palettes and personalized colors.
Spotlight on Da Vinci Seaglass
All about Da Vinci Seaglass artist watercolor, a unique blue color able to capture the organic, transparent nature and ever-changing colors of the ocean, sea, and more!
Comparing Da Vinci Yellows
From pale, cool yellows to rich, earth yellows, Da Vinci Paints offers artists more than 50 varieties of yellow in watercolors, oils, acrylics, and gouache. We share tips on how to choose a yellow for an artist palette, compare yellow color swatches, and showcase popular yellow mixes using Da Vinci paints.
Spotlight on Da Vinci Yellow
The brightest color in the spectrum, yellow is strongly associated with optimism, energy, joy, friendship, and fun. Learn all about Da Vinci Yellow artist oil and watercolor paint, discover beautiful mixes with Da Vinci Yellow, and more!
Spotlight on Joyce’s Mother Violet
Da Vinci Paint’s Mother Violet is perfect for painting stormy skies, splashy florals, and lively landscapes. Created in partnership with Artist Joyce Hicks as one of her signature palette colors, this exclusive blend of three pigments produces a violet that’s softly transparent and granulates into an amazing array of colors.
Mixing Orange with Da Vinci Paints
Da Vinci Paints shares quick and easy tips on how to mix the color orange in watercolor, oil, gouache, and acrylic. We also highlight some of our most popular orange artist paints, from bright and bold to rich and russet, so you can mix or pick an orange that you’ll love.
All About Da Vinci Greens
One of the most abundant and variegated colors in the natural world, green is useful to have in an artist’s palette. Da Vinci Paints offers artists a wide selection of green watercolors, oils, acrylics, and gouache along with custom curated artist greens. Compare Da Vinci’s green paints and learn how to use green in paintings.
All About Da Vinci Ultramarine Blue
Ultramarine Blue is considered by many artists to be the quintessential blue in a palette, and Da Vinci Paints offers artists a wide selection of professional-quality ultramarine blues. Compare Da Vinci’s Ultramarines in watercolor and oil, learn about common ultramarine blue mixes, and more!