Golden Artist Colors
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Golden Artist Colors is a manufacturing company that focuses entirely on acrylic polymer based paints, used in the fine arts, decoration, and crafts. Based in New Berlin, New York, the company produces the largest line of acrylic colors that is currently available to artists, including recreations of historic pigments.
Golden manufactures both high viscosity and fluid versions of most of its colors. Other products include acrylic airbrush inks, and a large selection of painting mediums.
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Golden Artist Colors, Inc. was founded upon a legacy of collaboration with artists. From the early days up to the present, artists of all types have been traveling to Upstate New York to share their product needs and ideas, but they haven't always been decorative painters. Andre Martinez, craftsman and decorative painter, founded the Faux Design Center, Inc. in 2003 as a resource for the decorative painting community. With the help of industry advisors, influencers, and master craftsmen, he has pioneered a program to aid in the success of decorative painters by connecting them, not only with educational resources, but also with designers and their clients.
GOLDEN's long-standing reputation for artist support and collaboration made them a natural choice for Andre when he first went in search of the right partnership with a manufacturer in 2004.
The unique craftsman-manufacturer collaboration between the Faux Design Center’s development team and GOLDEN's staff has produced the first set of paints and mediums optimized for decorative painters and all aspects of a typical decorative painting business: painting, teaching, and support for the local decorative painting community. Modeled after the successful relationship of The School of Applied Arts, painting professionals, and local materials retailers.
Every part of this unique program was built from the ground up, always building on a spirit of partnership and with an eye towards ensuring the success of the professional decorative painter. Even the distribution business model was designed considering the business practices of educators, practitioners, and manufacturers. In the United States the changing art education model and the need for professional level instruction and apprenticeship programs. It’s a toolkit for a successful practice, in painting and in business.
Sharing and collaboration have also reached new heights with the addition of The Professional Decorative Painters Association launching its industry wide ‘Medium Classification Project' with the Proceed Decorative Painting System.
