Made by hand, in Canada.
Family-run paint maker, milling professional artist acrylics in our +140,000 square foot Kingston facility for thirty years. Real pigment, fair pricing, made by people who paint.
Years of Paint Making
Family-run since 1994. Same Kingston facility, same six departments, same standard. Our paint has been in the hands of working artists for three decades.
Square Foot Mill
A real factory, not a brand layered on top of a contract producer. Pigments ground, paint milled, bottles molded, tubes filled. All in one building.
Colours and formats available
Hundreds of colours. Dozens of formats. Mixed in Kingston, Ontario. Shipped to artists and independent retailers across Canada and beyond.
Four ways to work.
Heavy body for impasto. Liquid for layering. Mediums for everything in between. Plus Rheotech for developing artists. Same mill, four formulations.
Tri-Art High Viscosity Acrylics
Impasto, knife work, expressive texture. Comparable to Golden Heavy Body.
Tri-Art Liquid Acrylics
Fluid pourable colour for layering and pouring. Comparable to Golden Fluid.
Tri-Art Acrylic Mediums
Gels, gesso, varnishes and texture mediums. Extend, finish, transform.
Low Viscosity Acrylic Paint
Studio quality at a developing-artist price. Mixes with the pro range.
Studio essentials.
A handful of products our customers buy on repeat. Sets, starters, and the kind of paint people stock without thinking about it.
What artists say.
I am a Canadian landscape artist. I am very particular about the paint that I use. I use mostly heavy body acrylic such as Golden or Liquitex. I began looking for a Canadian alternative and found Tri-Art. To my surprise they out-performed most of the paint I had been using.
I have been a Tri-Art user for many many years and they are my favourite acrylic paint. They are Canadian and that is very important to me!
Ordering was easy and delivery was timely. I'm looking forward to trying a Canadian product reportedly of the same quality as Golden. I will be sure to come back and update once I've actually used it.
Beyond the four main lines.
Watercolours, fluorescents, screen printing inks, low-viscosity acrylics. The specialty lines that grew out of thirty years of solving real problems for artists.
