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 convey been simply about for a really long time. Others are to a greater extent than recent.

Schminke Horadam Gouache Paint Tubes

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

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

Who is your favourite artists' pigment manufacturer?


You tin vote for your favourite pigment manufacturer inwards the poll inwards the side column.  The closing engagement is 31 Oct and I'll study dorsum on the results on this weblog presently afterwards 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 locomote repeating this practise for other fine art materials (dry media; paper; canvases; brushes etc)

More near Artists Colourmen


Below are some links to databases together with historical records of artists' colourmen over the years.
  • National Portrait Gallery - British artists' suppliers, 1650-1950This is a biographical directory of British together with unusual firms of artists’ suppliers together with colourmen operating inwards United Kingdom of Great Britain together with Northern Ireland together with British firms operating overseas.
  • National Gallery of Victoria - Artists Colourmen - this is a database of  the stamps, stencils, labels together with marks representing Artists’ Colourmen stamps which convey been flora on artworks inwards the NGV Collection.
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