2970.I've been following their adventures since they debuted on the Book of Face.
Frisky posts, come-hither art supply photos.
Awww, you know you had me at phthalo blue.
Around the side of the Jade Dragon Restaurant, at 6327 SW Capitol Highway, in the Hillsdale Center, in downtown Hillsdale (notice a pattern?) there is a little gem of a store you have to see and enjoy.
Appropriately named, it's the Hillsdale Art Supply Company.
It's a search, but it's worth the find.
Just go in the door behind the modest sign …
… and then enter a cozy-yet-spacious world. In the words of the owners, it's a small shop in Sw. Portland, run by two, artist moms. We sell New Recycled Art Supplies and some locally made art too. It's a terse yet apt description.
It's a small shop, yet it seems large.
What caught The Wife™'s eye was this case full of used pastels. She loves pastels; this is still a land I have but to timidly explore. These are good-quality useds; not junk, but art materials looking for someone to give pastels a try.
Fill a bag with what catches your eye, fork over a fiver, and they're yours.
They have pleasant knick-knacks. I used my digital camera to take a pic of this analog TLR, because meta.
The used and recycled art … seriously, westsiders, you need to get in here. There are retired drafting gear, airbrush paint and airbrushes (no compressor, alas, but anyone cagey enough to find pretty used airbrushes probably have a line on a compressor already), bits and bobs for scrapbookers …
We were most pleased with the variety that Hillsdale could pack in their cozy space, and the good quality.
Here's a find. Wife is a Crayola nut. Collects Crayola sets. And when she found this:
… where do you think it went? Home with us? Oh, yeah. And the chalk was in terrifically usable condition. This other box of chalk:
Well, its contents were near-to-pristine, even if the box was pleasantly-distressed. I'd use that photo for a color reference.
They're not all about used, you want the new, they got it. Good prices on the Golden acrylics:
Got watercolors, Gamblin oils. Yeah, they're serious about it. As well as about the art. There's funky, quirky art and sculpture all over the shop, all for sale.
Hillsdale is part of the new breed of local art supply stores, joining Muse and I've Been Framed in the class of art stores run by artists, for artists, both tyro and experienced. Classes are offered; enthusiasm is obvious. The new breed of local art supply stores are as much about making new artists and getting them to make new art as it is to sell to people who are already arting around.
Lots of good reasons there: more people making more art are having more fun in the trying; more art around is a more colorful world, and creating repeat customers (hey, they are a business, so no harm there!)
Here's a look at just part of the recycled items wall:
Any scrapbooker or collagist that steps away from those shelves without an inspiration should just go have their pulse checked, because you probably don't have one.
Only (so far as I know) available at Hillsdale is this nifty Portland wrapping paper. Have a look:
… send your friends in other towns (who wish they lived here, c'mon, you know everyone wishes they were really a Portlander) packages literally wrapped in Portlandia.
The cute knicknacks – just can't outro without sharing this, which we all laughed at:
You read that tag line right, pard. Safe. Fun. Constructive.
I mean, I don't doubt it's fun … but Safe? Constructive? I can see the manufacturer used a dictionary that's loong out of date.
We're fortunate here in Portland. Local artists wanting to create other artists … a people's artist paradise we are. Stores like Muse, IBF, and now, Hillsdale, lead the way.
Support Hillsdale, you westsiders.
Follow their advice. Go out … and MAKE ART.
UPDATE: Looks like I'm not the only blogger who's noticed: see http://tansydolls.blogspot.com/2013/06/hillsdale-art-supply-company.html
Frisky posts, come-hither art supply photos.
Awww, you know you had me at phthalo blue.
Around the side of the Jade Dragon Restaurant, at 6327 SW Capitol Highway, in the Hillsdale Center, in downtown Hillsdale (notice a pattern?) there is a little gem of a store you have to see and enjoy.
Appropriately named, it's the Hillsdale Art Supply Company.
It's a search, but it's worth the find.
Just go in the door behind the modest sign …
… and then enter a cozy-yet-spacious world. In the words of the owners, it's a small shop in Sw. Portland, run by two, artist moms. We sell New Recycled Art Supplies and some locally made art too. It's a terse yet apt description.
It's a small shop, yet it seems large.
What caught The Wife™'s eye was this case full of used pastels. She loves pastels; this is still a land I have but to timidly explore. These are good-quality useds; not junk, but art materials looking for someone to give pastels a try.
Fill a bag with what catches your eye, fork over a fiver, and they're yours.
They have pleasant knick-knacks. I used my digital camera to take a pic of this analog TLR, because meta.
The used and recycled art … seriously, westsiders, you need to get in here. There are retired drafting gear, airbrush paint and airbrushes (no compressor, alas, but anyone cagey enough to find pretty used airbrushes probably have a line on a compressor already), bits and bobs for scrapbookers …
We were most pleased with the variety that Hillsdale could pack in their cozy space, and the good quality.
Here's a find. Wife is a Crayola nut. Collects Crayola sets. And when she found this:
… where do you think it went? Home with us? Oh, yeah. And the chalk was in terrifically usable condition. This other box of chalk:
Well, its contents were near-to-pristine, even if the box was pleasantly-distressed. I'd use that photo for a color reference.
They're not all about used, you want the new, they got it. Good prices on the Golden acrylics:
Got watercolors, Gamblin oils. Yeah, they're serious about it. As well as about the art. There's funky, quirky art and sculpture all over the shop, all for sale.
Hillsdale is part of the new breed of local art supply stores, joining Muse and I've Been Framed in the class of art stores run by artists, for artists, both tyro and experienced. Classes are offered; enthusiasm is obvious. The new breed of local art supply stores are as much about making new artists and getting them to make new art as it is to sell to people who are already arting around.
Lots of good reasons there: more people making more art are having more fun in the trying; more art around is a more colorful world, and creating repeat customers (hey, they are a business, so no harm there!)
Here's a look at just part of the recycled items wall:
Any scrapbooker or collagist that steps away from those shelves without an inspiration should just go have their pulse checked, because you probably don't have one.
Only (so far as I know) available at Hillsdale is this nifty Portland wrapping paper. Have a look:
… send your friends in other towns (who wish they lived here, c'mon, you know everyone wishes they were really a Portlander) packages literally wrapped in Portlandia.
The cute knicknacks – just can't outro without sharing this, which we all laughed at:
You read that tag line right, pard. Safe. Fun. Constructive.
I mean, I don't doubt it's fun … but Safe? Constructive? I can see the manufacturer used a dictionary that's loong out of date.
We're fortunate here in Portland. Local artists wanting to create other artists … a people's artist paradise we are. Stores like Muse, IBF, and now, Hillsdale, lead the way.
Support Hillsdale, you westsiders.
Follow their advice. Go out … and MAKE ART.
UPDATE: Looks like I'm not the only blogger who's noticed: see http://tansydolls.blogspot.com/2013/06/hillsdale-art-supply-company.html
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