The old German factory Schminck is a traditional family business that has been producing watercolor paints since the end of the 19th century for four generations. At the turn of the century, Schminck's main leaders changed from family members to professional managers, and the business officially opened up to global retailers.
 
Schmink invented hand-poured solid color in 1982 and was the first recipient of watercolor patents. Prior to this, the production method of solid color was mainly to rub the strip and cut into sections, which needed to add special ingredients, which was not easy to dip and would dry out after thorough drying. No additional ingredients are added to the hand-poured fixing color, and the pigment is injected into the color disc in 4 times over a period of 3-5 months to ensure the uniform dispersion of the pigment in a slow drying. Compared with Daniel Smith and other latecomers of hand-poured fixed color, Schmin Solid Color is still the best to dip, dry and can be restored to use, in the year of invention swept Germany, France, Hungary several countries of patent certification.
 
In 2017, the HORADAM series of master watercolors was expanded from 35 colors to 139 colors, including 9 lightfast quinacridone pigments and 22 granulation pigments. Since the ASTM light fastness standard for art pigments is not mandatory, many brands will also have their own labeling systems. The durability rating of Sminck is calculated according to 5 stars, with a total of 112 kinds of 4-star and 5-star pigments, and 95 kinds of single pigments, and the artist-level performance is not inferior to Windsor Newton.
 
However, Schminck's watercolor prefers a calm color selection, low transparency, and easy control as a selling point, the pigment adds very little ox bile, and the diffusion is low, making it even less transparent. Fortunately, the pigment of Schmink is of high quality and strong tinting strength, which is suitable for dry painting and urban painting style with hard lines. HORADAM series has 5ml, 15ml tube and full block, half pigment optional, solid, liquid color formula is exactly the same, is a high concentration of pigment performance, 5ml and half of the price is basically the same, according to the color grade of different prices, 27-50 yuan.
 
Sminck's collegiate watercolor AKADEMIE series is worth a book, and although there are only 24 colors, there are 16 monochrome pigments and 20 pigments with a durability of more than 4 stars. Unlike other brands with separate production lines for the academy level and the artist level, the pigment grade of the Schmink academy level is about the same as the master level, which is a very recommended novice pigment, but half a piece of watercolor sells for 20 yuan, far exceeding other college level, and the price difference between the master level is not large.
 
Schmink's sets are based on the principle of color mixing, with 24 sets each available for the Academy and Master levels, which are very rich and easy to control, making them ideal for beginners.