Davy's Gray is a gentle gray color traditionally made with powdered slate pigments. It was developed by Winsor & Newton for the 19th-century English artist Henry Davy, a student of the famous watercolorist J.S. Cotman.

See it in action. Our Professional Watercolour continues to be formulated based on our founding principles: to create unmatched colors that provide artists with the greatest and most balanced selection of pigments, just as it was in 1835 when William Winsor and Henry Newton introduced the world's first moist watercolors.

A wide range of single-pigment colors. Our range uses only the finest pigments, which is why they are known for their brilliance, permanence, and color intensity. With 79 single-pigment colors, we offer the largest selection of modern and traditional pigments.

Unmatched transparency. Formulated using the highest quality methods for optimal pigment distribution, our unparalleled transparency means that every wash remains vibrant and luminous.

Lightfast and permanent. 104 out of 108 colors in the Professional Watercolour range are rated AA or A for permanence, ensuring that the colors used today will look the same for generations to come.

Create your own palette of granulating colors. Many artists appreciate granulation for achieving texture on paper. Discover some of our beautiful granulating colors to build your palette and learn more about minimizing and maximizing this effect.

Tone, shade, and super-granulate your palette. Our Professional Watercolour range offers more than 30 lightfast and permanent granular single-pigment colors. Try some of these colors; tone and shade them, and mix them to create extraordinary super-granulating colors.