Hello everyone!
I hope this #MarketFriday post finds you well as we end another week.
It's again the weekend and giving us another realization of just how fast the days are slipping through our fingers so quickly, right? And just like how these days are running so fast, so were my acrylic paints. I have been painting a lot lately that I did not notice that my white paint can was almost empty. Without white paint, I won't be able to play with the different shades of color so I won't allow running out of white.
Art materials bought in art stores are dang expensive that's why I don't usually run into these places to buy my art stuff. I buy acrylic paints in regular hardware found in the neighborhood, and my canvas boards are customized and hand-made by my Kuya (older brother), which saves me a lot of money.
But why am I here in Art Bar?! It so happened that I was strolling in BGC the other week and I happened to pass this store.
So how could I resist the leaping enthusiasm and excitement within me in dropping by inside?!
Well, I am not sure if you will agree with me but for artists, art enthusiasts, art aficionados, aesthetes fella, and all that stuff --- this place is a paradise. It feeds our artsy souls with colorful happiness and satisfies our hunger for more art.
And so to feed my cravings for art, my feet stepped automatically inside. I went inside without any plan of buying some art materials. I just wanted to have a quick tour inside. I was welcomed with the aromatic smell of coffee because they had a coffee corner with pastries inside for their customers wanting to have a relaxing art-store visit. Not just that they feed your hunger for art, but also your empty stomach.
It's a two-story shop. On the first floor, different markers and colors were displayed.
And then I continued my colorful excursion when I went to the 2nd floor of the shop. I was overwhelmed by the different art materials being displayed. Just by starting with that colorful stuff, my heart was already full.
There were varieties of acrylic and oil paints.
There were paintbrushes in different shapes and sizes.
There were also palette knives.
And different shapes and sizes of canvas boards.
This variety of canvas was so pleasing to my eyes, but unfortunately not to my pocket, LoL.
They also sell here are books, for someone who is both an artist and bookworm wrapped in one.
And easels, which in 4 years of engaging myself back into arts (after letting it idly fall in deep slumber for 15 looooooong years inside me) since I started loving with painting more, I still don't have. Sigh!
I was glad that one brand of acrylic paint and a small paintbrush was quite within my budget so I bought some. I bought one white acrylic paint (75 ml) for 64 PHP and the brush for 43 PHP which only cost me a total of 107 PHP (1.83 USD). There was another brand of acrylic paint that was for sale for only 27 PHP but unfortunately, there was no white available.
And yes, my initial plan of not buying anything from this shop did not materialize. But I was happy - indeed retail therapy for me.
That was just a quick trip inside the Art Bar as my participation for this week's #MarketFriday story to share some artistic and colorful vibes for this weekend. Thank you, everyone, and thank you 