Maiwa Competitors

Colart is the global market leader for art materials. Our premium brands have played an important role in the creative industry for centuries. Artists all over the world are fans of our beloved and famous brand portfolio which includes Winsor & Newton, Liquitex, Lefranc Bourgeois, Snazaroo, and Conte à Paris. We are strongly committed to creating the best tools for the creative community. No matter when, how or where you want to be creative. We strive for excellence in everything we do, and we are driving the market forward through our culture of passion, quality, agility and accountability.

Golden Artist Colors is a successful, employee-owned company that has produced some of the industry’s best artists’ paints and paint products for more than 30 years. Situated in beautiful New Berlin, New York, GAC was selected by Inc. magazine as “2011 Top Small Company Workplaces,” thanks in part to its focus on creating a strong community that extends from its workplace to the artists it serves. Golden Artist Colors manufactures GOLDEN Artist Acrylics, Williamsburg Artist Oil Colors, QoR Artist Watercolors, PanPastel Artist Pastels, and Golden Paintworks decorative paints.

Speedball is an American company that manufactures Art Materials from Screen Printing and Block Printing to Pottery Wheels. The company, first famous by its dip pens, has expanded its range of products to other art areas such us printmaking, ceramics, metal leafing, painting and high quality artist paper. In 1899 C. Howard Hunt formed his own company and established it in Camden, New Jersey. The "Speedball" pen was developed and patented by sign letterer Ross F. George of Seattle. This pen had a square-tipped pen could make broad and thin lines. George took the patent to the C. Howard Hunt Pen Company in 1915. Till this day, each nib is split, ground and assembled by hand in Statesville, North Carolina. Your art begins with Speedball - America’s leading manufacturer of the highest quality of artist products - unequaled for quality, safety and ease-of-use.