Guerra Paint & Pigment Corporation

Best source for pigments. Their binders are also high quality. No more tubes for me. In the long run you also save a lot of money in paint shipping when you make your own.

I came in for help with a very specific painting process and the woman who helped me was incredibly knowledgable and passionate about paint. After going to another pigment store and getting some bad advice\service, it really made my day to talk to someone who knew what they were doing.
Thanks so much!

Awesome place. Just happened to walk by one afternoon and was drawn in by their wall of color swatches. I had no idea what they did but once inside I received a tour of the place and what they do form the lovely owner. He showed us that a little bit of their super concentrated pigment can go a long way. Really useful economically as well as space saving. Made me want to start an art project asap!!!

This is a truly wonderful business. Not only are they artists themselves, but they have been providing quality pigments and paints in a NYC storefront that they have just been improving year by year. Stop by – see the gorgeous options and talk with the owners who know what artists need. Walking in the store just makes me happy…

This store gets five stars just for still being around! I may have never made a purchase here, maybe a couple, but when I moved to NYC in Fall ’93 I lived in a squat at 537 – 9 east 13^th, and this store always made me glad to be on the same street. I do paint, however, but mostly silkscreen with acrylics… that said, based on the other reviews I will stop in and see what they have… and I may be ready for oils!

Art (Guerra) is the best! Artists of any genre should make this a destination! Very inspiring!

I have spent the past 2 years in San Francisco engulfed in the painting world through EVERYONE around me. While I am not a painter I am a collector, an avid art goer, engaged to a painter, and living with painters… I’ve come to know painting and drawing very well. The long of the short is that my fiancée swears by these paints and has been having them shipped west since we moved here. This past weekend we went in person while we were in NYC and I got to see the store in person as well as meet the staff.
It is a tiny little shop with samples of every color they do painted on the wall to your left so you can see them out of the bottle and imagine them on your canvas or surface of choice. The rest of the shop is homemade wooden shelves filled with every color you can imagine and their mixing station in the back. The owner (I presume he was the owner) was beyond knowledgeable and wrapped up in conversation with the other client in the room as they discussed which colors would be right for his current work based on hue, texture, transparency, etc. It was obvious he knew paint, and he loved helping people find the paint that was right for them.
My fiancée loves the small (5oz?) bottles because they are solely pigment which she can mix with a variety of substances to achieve the look she is going for so they last a long time and are extremely versatile. She was in need of some variations on traditional colors which Guerra absolutely had, so all and all we were extremely happy.
To cap things off you get a 10% discount for being a student. We both highly recommend Guerra and I know we will always buy from them both from the store and online.