Brand New!! Poll: Who Is Your Favourite Artists' Pigment Manufacturer?

This poll explores which is our favourite manufacturer of paints for artists? Who are our favourite colourmen?

Some of the firms which construct fine art materials accept been roughly for a real long time. Others are to a greater extent than recent.

Schminke Horadam Gouache Paint Tubes

I'm non making whatever distinction every bit to:
  • different brands of pigment - I'm focusing exclusively on the manufacturer's name
  • whether they construct only ane or all the unlike types of pigment (eg oil, watercolour, acrylic, gouache, casein, egg tempera) 

I'm too non including the smallest manufacturers as well as pigment which is less easily available.

Who is your favourite artists' pigment manufacturer?


You tin vote for your favourite pigment manufacturer inward the poll inward the side column.  The closing engagement is 31 Oct and I'll study dorsum on the results on this weblog shortly later that.

The options are:
  • Blockx
  • Chroma
  • Daler Rowney
  • Daniel Smith
  • Da Vinci
  • Gamblin
  • Golden
  • Grumbacher
  • Holbein
  • Kremer
  • Lefranc & Bourgeois
  • Liquitex
  • Maimeri
  • M. Graham
  • Michael Harding 
  • Old Holland
  • Pebeo
  • Royal Talens
  • Schminke
  • Sennelier
  • ShinHan
  • Vasari
  • Winsor & Newton

I'll endure repeating this do for other fine art materials (dry media; paper; canvases; brushes etc)

More virtually Artists Colourmen


Below are some links to databases as well as historical records of artists' colourmen over the years.
  • National Portrait Gallery - British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950This is a biographical directory of British as well as unusual firms of artists’ suppliers as well as colourmen operating inward UK of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland as well as British firms operating overseas.
  • National Gallery of Victoria - Artists Colourmen - this is a database of  the stamps, stencils, labels as well as marks representing Artists’ Colourmen stamps which accept been constitute on artworks inward the NGV Collection.
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