Each watercolor pan is hand-poured. Hand pouring pans is incredibly labor-intensive and offers the purest form of professional watercolor half pans. It takes three to four pours over several months of drying to produce each half pan of DANIEL SMITH Watercolor. A predictable non-staining teal blue with muscle and the presence to stand alone, but when used in a glaze or wash, it blends with incredible ease. Because of its slight granulation, you can achieve multi-layers and tone on tone effects to delight and surprise with each addition or stroke.