Art Bar Visit: A Paradise for my Artsy-Soul 🎨
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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 @dswigle. Great day and weekend ahead. ☺️
I can see the SALE!
Haha mao naka-afford kog palit ren.
heaven! for an artist like me !!!! I’ve always wanted to have a business like this in my hometown
Ohh wow!! That must be a great idea, earning money while doing the things you love the most. ☺️
Good luck with making that dream into a colorful reality @jude.villarta, kulayan na nato ang drawing hehe, kay mupalit ko adto puhon. 🥰
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🥲🥲🥲🥲 even brush prices are in inflation, damn
RIP my plans to buy more brushes
Yes they do! You can only satisfy your eyes with such lovely art mats but sadly your pocket won't cooperate 😞
Ari ko bilib. Hehe
Kutob ra ta window shopping diri sir, mahal kaayo ang canvas maong palit nalang kog sako sarina sa bakery, customized nalang ug himu 🤣🤣🤣
Aghh, I would probably get lost in there para titigan yung mga art materials hahaha!
You will surely do @arcgspy ☺️ this is a walk in the park with all those lovely art mats, how i wish they were all affordable pero for my eyes only lang daw muna sila for now 😅
This was once a bookstore! Haha, memories! At first glance at the pic, I knew it's BGC. I used to visit for the markers and watercolors for calligraphy. Indeed, this one's an artist's heaven
Yeah, I remember that too haha! I don't used to to go inside dati though bata palang I am into arts na, natulog lang ng matagal since I started working 😅.
You're right, this place is indeed an artist's heaven! I could totally get let lost wandering inside. ❤️
Thank you @cthings for dropping by! ☺️
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Ang daming work of arts! Matablaw jud kog lantaw ani if I were there. hehe
Matagbaw jud kaayo lagi pero ang mata ra, dili ang bulsa @diding 😅😅