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 and 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. Hand Crafted MADE IN USA3-4 pours from start to finish – months to complete each pan Professional Artists Quality Watercolors Finest pigments Highest pigment load Re-wets quickly Consistency Exceptional Lightfast Pigments45 colors available throughout the 6 select sets DANIEL SMITH uses the exact same formula for both tube and pan colors. An earthy red-brown with opaque, sedimentary properties, Venetian Red is great for fall paintings and applications similar to Indian Red. Drop Venetian Red into a wet Lunar Earth wash for exciting results. Venetian Red is medium staining, lifts with some difficulty when dry, but leaves a special warm afterglow when blotted at the damp state.