Kremer Pigments

Kremer Pigments is one of those New York City treasures you feel lucky to have.
If you are mesmerized by color, go visit Kremer. The staff is friendly and they don’t mind you walking and gazing at all the beautiful colors.
They have free classes sometimes. The manager, Roger, is very knowledgeable and also teaches at Kremer or look up classes outside of Kremer through coursehorse.
The place is small, but the walls are filled and well-​stocked.
Aside from a variety of pigments (Historic, Earth & Iron Oxide, Synthetic, Glass, Enogu), they also have various binders, mediums, glues, fillers, solvents, wetting agents. They sell aluminum tubes and other containers to store your paint and a small reference material section with books.
They have pre-​made paint including watercolors. Just beautiful lovely color everywhere.
For all you bookbinders and calligraphers, they have some tools and gilding material.
Also, don’t shy away because of the $ rating. Some of the pigments are costly in of themselves or because of quality. There’s a pricepoint for everyone.
I absolutely love this place!

Kremer Pigments is a wonderful shop where you can purchase all kinds of colour pigments to make into paint, pastel, ink and more.
From earth pigments to historical to crazy metallic ones. Other things you can purchase are beautiful Kolinsky brushes, silverpoint, agate burnishers, chalk dust (I had a bag of this and a roommate thought it was cocaine), fillers, books, containers, handmade watercolours + inks + oil paint and more.
They have a set of wonderful Kolinsky detailing/​retouching brushes made by the Kremer company at the price of $ 35.
I really have to give huge thanks for the Gillot’s Watercolour Medium Kremer makes and carries. I still do boil gum arabic mixtures to make watercolor medium but when I don’t feel like going through that whole process I can use Gillot’s medium to very easily make brilliant handmade watercolors.
Depending on what kinds of pigments you purchase you could save more money making your paint instead of purchasing pre-​made tubes.
Every time I have come to Kremer Pigments, the staff have been helpful, patient, attentive and not intimidating. Prices aren’t really labeled on items but feel at ease to ask staff for them.