I Visited Art Shops in Greece! Art Store Tours
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- čas přidán 22. 06. 2023
- Welcome to Episode Four of Art Store Tours! You can watch these in any order as they are stand-alone videos. Today's episode is a special one, where I visited some art shops in Greece while I was over there on vacation. I managed to get to six stores, and this is a montage of all of them. I hope you enjoy this whirlwind art store tour!
(My footage is a bit dodgy in parts; my brain was clearly on holiday, lol! )
Listed below are all of the shops I visited with their websites. I've tried to include English versions wherever possible. It may load the Greek version, but in the top right corner there is often a little UK or US flag to click on for English.
In video order:
Panchroma: panchroma.gr/en/
Art Center: www.art-center.com.gr/eng
Batis: batisart.gr/
ABIO: www.abio.gr/ (This one may only be in Greek - I can't see if there is an English option!)
Grafis Art: www.grafisart.gr/ (I'm only seeing Greek for this website too)
Pinelies Corfu: Has no website? Instagram: / pinelies.artsuppliesshop
Please note that I'm not being sponsored by any of the stores, I just wanted to share their websites seeing as they were so kind to allow me to film in their shops. Thank you to the store owners, if you happen to see my video!
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I love all the paint splatters on the narrow spiral staircase!
It was an awesome and terrifying staircase! 😂
Talents art creation sketchbooks are amazing! My favourite sketchbooks now! Fun stuff thanks for showing us.
They're great value for money!
Thank you for showing us all those different art shops. Loved it 😀
Glad you enjoyed it! Hopefully as much as I enjoyed visiting them myself. 😄
Thank you for sharing this! I loved seeing the Greek stores!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching!
Ty for taking us to Greece! 🤗🤗🤗
Really enjoyed this and seeing all the art stores. I would’ve loved to have visited all of them. 👍👍
It was a good time! Aside from trying to find parking at one of them, which proved to be a logistical nightmare. 😬
Thanks for showing us these art supply stores. 👍I always love to wander through stores, especially art stores…and crafting products too…even if it’s by proxy.I could spend hours just looking. But typically, the more time I’m in a store, the better the chances that I’ll start buying something….just because.😮
Haha yes, I'm the same. I'll end up finding something if I am in there for too long.
I love living vicariously thru you! It’s a blast to tour art stores from other places/countries!
It's fun to explore shops in other countries - I get excited just going into a foreign supermarket, lol!
Thanks for all of the great footage! It's such fun to see art stores in other parts of the world.
I'm glad I spent the time doing some filming, even if the quality isn't as polished as I would have liked, lol.
Dear Becky, thank you so much! Though I live in Athens, I live in the suburbs and knew nothing of these shops. I usually ordered from Jacksons but after Brexit its impossible to order anything above 120 euros so I found another shop in Brussels to order from, though not with the variety of Jacksons. Anyway its nice to know what is near and funny to find out from you who came from Australia, and showed me what is next to my door. With gratitude and my best wishes for you and Nick and your life in Australia!!!
Haha that's often the way that tourists see more of a city than residents (that happens for people who visit Melbourne and tell me of places I've never been). I spent a lot of time with Google Maps scoping out these places before we went, so I could mark them all on the map as "Want to visit" places. I'm sure there were some which we missed. And the store which didn't let me film is in Glyfada, called Art and Hobby. Maybe a block back from the main Metaxa street...I think it's called Lazaraki street? Near the Starbucks anyway! Not sure if that's near you, but it's another one to check out. 🙂
You are sooo darn watchable! Love all your videos.
Thank you so much!😊
Oooo how exciting. Thanks for posting!
Thanks for watching! 😆❤
@@BeckyTregear you’re welcome! ❤️
Thanks for the art shops tour from your (working?) holiday. 😅 I had a bit of a laugh when you mentioned 'fossicking' in some of the art shops that were rather disorganized. Fossicking would be fun, if you had the time. 😄 Can't wait to see your next video.
Fossick and rummage are the two best words to describe how to find things in some of the more chaotic stores - there were layers of things, haha!
You get the prize! Thanks for this one a million times! I am half Greek & my mom lived in Greece for a few years right after I was married. She wandered the fabric & button shops all the time and sent me the most beautiful goodies. I am disabled & was never able to go myself, but this was the next best thing! I love seeing this. Now I will try to convince my cousins to go shoppoing for me!
I'm so glad you enjoyed the tour! 😊 Your cousins totally need to go to the shops for you! 😂
This video was so much fun! It helps me realize how popular and important Art making is, the world over!💜💜💜
I think in some ways it's even more important now, making and creating things. ❤
How fun! I haven't been in a real art store in so long that I can't even remember when, let alone one in a different country. I am totally looking forward to the art haul!
How about six art stores…haha! 😂
@@BeckyTregear Definitely a trip to remember! To heck with the rest of Greece, just show me the art stores! 🤣
The footage at the beginning is gorgeous, but yes it looks crowded! I’m actually surprised how many cute art stores you found. And they were so well stocked! I’m excited to see what you brought back with you, it’s definitely tough trying to fit everything into a suitcase😆
We had to bring an extra bag home, lol! The Acropolis is one of those places that I've been to a few times (three!) but every time I'm just awed by how big the Parthenon is, and how ancient the whole site is; literally thousands of years old. With thousands of people this time around. It was noticeably busier than previous visits.
What a delightful video, Becky, thank you! Gonna look for the next one
Thank you! The haul is there, as is a sketchbook tour of my time in Greece, travelling around the place. Very grateful we went in May and aren't there now with all of that heat and those fires! 😰
What absolute little gems of art stores you found! I loved this walk around with you and can't wait for the next one to see what you bought......ohhhhh exciting!! :D
I'm so glad we found so many; having three together on the same street made things easier, lol.
@BeckyTregear That was amazing! Like an art store heaven!
How wonderful
Sadly I haven't had the opportunity to go to Greece yet but in 2016 I spent 6 months in Budapest and like you found in Greece, watercolours were not very popular in Hungary, which absolutely killed me as art supplies were incredibly cheap there compared to Australia - however after a couple of months exploring I got lucky and found an art shop up in the Budapest Hills that was no longer going to stock Winsor & Newton paints as they are waay too expensive for your average Hungarian and so they were selling their stock of Winsor & Newton watercolours and I ended up buying ALL their giant pans of watercolours AND ALL the Winsor & Newton wooden trays for those giant pans, which had been discontinued years before... I got something like 25 Giant watercolour pans and 3 wooden trays for about $AUD30!!!!
Then I did a special trip to Vienna to go to a major German chain art shop - it was sooo big and I have never seen sooooo many watercolour supplies anywhere since... row upon row of every type and brand of watercolour paper you can imagine, along with brushes and of course paints... I went crazy buying Hahnemuhle watercolour papers, sketchbooks and blocks and they had the entire range of Schmincke watercolours and watercolour sets... I didn't want to leave and felt like I was in heaven....but I soon came to Earth with a resounding thud when I saw the total at the checkout!!! Their prices were just as expensive IF not dearer than in Australia, but of course I bought lots of products I couldn't get here, so that's how I justified my big spend plus I had a great day out...
Oh wow, it sounds like you scored an epic bargain in Budapest! How lucky to get all of the giant pans - I'd love some of those but I was a bit late to the party and they discontinued them before I realised such things existed. I hope you've been enjoying those! 😊 Ahhh yes, much of Europe is so expensive, especially when actually converting the Euro to AUD and remembering that prices are almost double, lol. I didn't spend as much as I could have because I also had fairly tight baggage limits, but it sounds like that Vienna store would have sent me bankrupt, lol. It's worth it if you had fun and scored amazing art supplies. ❤
Thank you for this video! I live in Greece and it's true that Royal Talens products are easy to find. For watercolours, the best I can find locally is student grade (Van Gogh), so I only shop online. Most painters here work with student grade acrylic or oil so artist's grade anything is hard to find, especially watercolours. The stores you showed us are fun and beautiful though, never been to any of them. I especially loved the one in Corfu, so delightful 😊
Hopefully it helps you out if you're looking for some professional watercolours - Panchroma, Batis and ABIO all stock a few good brands - I think their websites have bigger range than the physical stores. 😊
Hi Becky!
What fun stores you went through! I am so glad they were there for you. I am happy that you had a wonderful holiday!
It was a good time! I'm glad we were able to visit a bunch of them; it helped that three were next to each other, lol.
Hi Becky, glad you had a safe trip! Thanks for showing us the art shops 😊
It was a good time overall! 🙂
I loved the video!. I could spend hours looking at all the art supplies!. Hope you really enjoyed your time in Greece!.
Thank you...we did! 💜
This was fun! Thanks for the tour!😊
Thank you, I am glad I got to check out so many stores there. 😆
Those pigments were gorgeous, so strong willed not going crazy and buying a second suitcase! 😂🎉
We were hamstrung by a weight limit of 25kg each coming home, when it was 30kg going over...that's what we get for booking the cheapest flights possible I guess! 😂 Posting 5kg home from Athens was quoted at €200 so that also wasn't an option😱
@@BeckyTregear 😱😱😱
Big shout out to Nick for all his help with your videos. 😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
11:12 i would have wanted to steal that container of pastels lol
a messy disorganized art shops are my type of place 😀🥰
It is fun to rummage through them and turn up treasures....like a pastel container. 😆
im not a thief but sometimes....lol
Looks lovely i am glad you have a woonderful time. I love the tallons books the 12cm by 12cm I have a yellow one Working progess and a Lilac one still wrapped ahh my fav .... Sorry you couldn;t get the paint tubes and the chalks xxxx you made me laugh so much xxxxx Greese was the Birth place of Art , no wonder they have ALL the colors and things xxxxxxx Happy Swatching .
Those chalks were massive and crumbly...my suitcase would have been ruined, haha!
@@BeckyTregear 🥰
I was hoping you found art supply stores - and the shop keepers would let you bring us along. Such fun; all of them! Looking forward to your haul video
I'm so glad almost everyone let me film in their stores! My one opportunity to get to them. 🙂
Watercolour art is largely a western thing, particularly in the English speaking world. In other countries acrylic and oils take precedence.
This is certainly true of Greece!
I was going to say that. Mainly in Mediterranean countries you'll see that they treat watercolor as a substandard material which is changing but still ... Oils are the main thing along with gouache.
@@tempest6781 How true! It’s a bit annoying for us watercolour lovers, though.
This was quite enjoyable. Smaller art supply stores are like old book shops, cozy and there is always a treasure. Liked the store on Corfu the best. If you are on an island, you want shop with a broad inventory. It’s kind of strange that almost everything is Royal Talens. Maybe because they are less expensive than other European brands. Looking forward to your next video to see what you brought home. Thanks for sharing Greece with us!
I'd say so; less expensive and in plentiful supply. Greece is nowhere near as wealthy a nation as places like Germany and France, so it is more difficult to justify trying to sell super expensive brands most likely.
That was another excuse for me to go back to Greece ! I'm looking forward to see what goodies you brought back. Have a great week, Becky.
Thank you! I found a few treasures, and I can't wait to use them. Must finish my Greece videos first though, lol! I have a sketchbook tour which I'm hoping to get done soon too.
Excellent!
Loved the tour thanks. Rosa watercolours are sold but Adamstown Art in NSW.
Oh good to know! I also just found a set on Amazon AU, lol. They weren't there when I looked a while ago!
On seeing a Koala thing and laughing about coming half way around the world and see it, I was in Boston and we went to the Aquarium and the first animals we saw were penguins. I love penguins, so it was nice seeing them and then I realised they were native to Victoria Australia. They were Little (Fairy) Penguins! I went to Boston when I could have gone to Phillip Island.
That store with the arch and the three would make a nice painting. It is so adorable.
I know it is mostly international brands, but it must be annoying for people in Greece that most of the packaging labels are in English.
I miss art stores. I know we still have some here, but we also lost a few during the pandemic and I would love to have them back, as I love wondering around different stores.
It's so weird seeing Aussie things in other countries! That reminds me; we found one English music radio station, and at some point we were listening to Farnsey's You're the Voice while driving through country Greece....it was bizarre! 😂 It's mostly art products that were in English, whereas most other every day items were in Greek (like supermarket items etc), or a mix of Greek and English, with occasional other languages.
I'm glad you got to do some browsing/shopping. How, generally, is the pricing compared to your home? Don't be too mad at White Nights. I doubt most Russians want to be at war. Thanks for sharing your arty adventures!
Greece is generally a bit cheaper than other European countries, especially when it comes to food and bottled water. Art supplies weren't too bad...I mean some things were pretty expensive but over all I'd say it is much the same as shopping in Australia, if somewhat cheaper with the Royal Talens products. I don't mind White Nights, it's not their fault there is conflict; they just sell lovely paints. I just thought it was kind of funny that the two nations' products where right next to each other....awkward.....😬
Rosa gallery watercolours are beautiful to paint with I hope you managed to get some to try out.
We shall see in my next video! 😁
Really enjoyed this. Thank you, becky.
This was so much fun! I've always wanted to visit Greece; it's on my bucket list. That last shop was gorgeous, and I didn't know that Monte Marte paints were from Australia. I bought a set of Monte Marte paints off Amazon around Christmas time and I love them.
There are lots of interesting places to see in Greece, that's for sure! 😊 Mont Marte is a budget brand in Australia, but in the past few years they have been trying to go more upmarket with higher grade materials. They have some really good things now!
I am hoping that soon somebody will decide to bring us some Rosa Watercolour paint sets to play with, in South Africa.
I think they're starting to expand into other countries; I just found a set on Amazon Australia which wasn't there a while ago when I looked!
Fantastic shops look forward to seeing what you got
Thank you for sharing. I was wondering if you were able to snag some art supplies while you were in Greece. Looking forward to see your vacation travel haul. So lucky to have so many art supply stores at hand.
I always have to look for art stores when I go to other places, haha! I picked up a few goodies...all shall be revealed in a few days! 😆
Thank you, Becky, for showing us these art stores. I don’t do well in disorganized art stores so the ones with things strewn about would be my least favorite but the two stores that were better organized looked really fun. I have been to Athens and Corfu but it was years ago. Wow, there were a lot of people visiting. I love looking in art stores wherever I am but it’s always interesting to see them in other countries. I didn’t realize that watercolor wasn’t as popular in Europe. That’s too bad. I look forward to your next video (as I do to all your videos). You always brighten my day. Thank you to Nick for helping you out so we could experience these stores through your eyes. Have a great day!
I think watercolours may be more popular in France and Germany, but I need to visit more European countries to really get an idea, haha! It was interesting seeing how different stores were arranged, from pure chaos to organised racks. You'd like the art shops in Australia, which are almost always neatly arranged. I don't imagine Athens or Corfu have changed very much, other than the amount of people in them - it was noticeably more crowded in Greece this time compared with 2017 when we were previously there.
@Terri Multiple famous watercolour brands are from Europe - what are you talking about, lol. Also, language bias.
Love all the shop tours! Thanks for taking the time on your vacation to film and share them with us! I saw some Maimeri gouache at the store that had the Maimeri watercolour 😊. All the shops looked different/fun, you can tell they have some personality. It’s too bad one shop didn’t allow filming, but at least most of them did. How unusual that Royal Talens was so prevalent in every store; I think one store should capitalize on that and bring in another popular brand and draw everyone to their shop for something different 😅.
Cannot believe the shot of the crowds in the first bit of your video. We’ve been looking into planning a trip for fall, but we’ve read so many stories about the insanely huge crowds everywhere that we think we might hold off for a bit longer. We can take a trip a little closer to home. Crowds stress me out and I don’t need stress on vacation.
I had fun visiting the shops, so it wasn't a big deal for me to see them (other than trying to park at the ABIO one, which was a logistical nightmare, lol!) Royal Talens is making big bucks by the looks of things. Ah yes, the crowds were pretty epic this year, compared with 2017 when we last visited Greece. According to Nick's family, they are looking at record numbers for tourists this year! Now the world has fully opened up, everyone is champing at the bit to go exploring and make the most of life again. The Acropolis and Corfu Old Town were the two busiest areas, along with Meteora which had more tour buses than I've ever seen before anywhere!
Very fun seeing the art stores in Greece - thanks for filming and showing us!
I'm happy I managed to get to so many of them! Credits go to Google Maps, and Nick for doing the driving. 😂
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Wow! Really liked this.
Thank you!
these all look really good, I'd love to visit, I've been to several Greek islands but never mainland ☺
There are some really interesting places to visit on the mainland; Delphi and Meteora are two stand-outs for me!
Art Creation is kids-grade, Van Gogh is Student and Rembrandt is professional. I'm also surprised they have so much Talens stuff :O
I do like the Art Creation sketchbooks even if they are in the basic range. They're cheap and surprisingly great quality, at least the one is that I'm currently using. 😊
As much as the idea of a Huge art store sounds exciting, there something charmning about small art stores 🥰🥰🥰 about the Pheonix brand, I believe they are student grade watercolor, and people have been comparing between them with winsor and newton cotman watercolors, because there is a rumor going on that they are the same paint.
It was fun going into tiny stores! So cute and charming. I will have to look more into Phoenix watercolours.
It was a while ago, but I purchased my White Nights paints from Rosa Gallery online.
Interesting!
I think someone reviewed the orange Van Gogh palette here on CZcams.
I haven't seen it....but then I haven't looked yet, lol.
If I decided to travel, I would basically go to countries based on their art shops and maybe horse stuff…
Haha it's always a good idea to research the available art (and horse) shops before travelling! 😄
So we’re the Royal Talen’s items cheaper? Fun shops!
The sketchbooks were quite cheap, but I didn't look too much at the prices for other items. They seemed at least on a par with everywhere else. Euros are also confusing, lol.
Can you actually bring the powders through Australian customs? Would not know what they all are?
That is definitely something I considered! Carrying anything in powder form is asking for trouble at customs, so I decided not to get anything like that. Fine if it's a whole sealed jar with a proper label, but little baggies of loose powder would be too dodgy I reckon!
Enjoyed all ,the art stores were interesting, did you find the prices comparable to Australia art prices, i think i wouldve grab the rosa watercolor tin and deftly wnouldve bought a few greece made sketch books, maybe also some ribbon also cause id wouldve like to tie my sketch books close..thank you for your tours of art stores..🎨✍👩🎨🇺🇲🇨🇦💛
Yes, prices were quite similar, although a lot of the Royal Talens was pretty cheap there (particularly the sketchbooks). You can find Rosa Gallery paints on Amazon AU, which seems to be a recent thing, and they're pretty much the same sort of price as EU.
Wow! What an amazing look into another country loves art supplies wise. Also- I'm totally not jealous you got to go to Greece. NOT at ALL. *sarcasm
It was a fun time! But also incredibly exhausting, and SO many people! It will be a long time before I complain about traffic in Australia again, lol.
I'd be interested to know with currency conversion, if any supplies are cheaper there then what we would pay back home? ( daughter is going over next year)
I'd need to sit down with a calculator and currency converter to work it all out. Some things were a bit cheaper, like the Rembrandt paints and also the Art Creation sketchbooks. Others were maybe around a similar price, though in Australia it seems like everything has gone through the roof lately so it's really hard to know! Even over the time we were away, prices seemed to have risen significantly on some items (especially cat food!)
Loved this Becky, felt like I was there just a note those phenix watercolours are TERRIBLE!!!
Just as well I didn't buy any then, haha! 😂
7:09 I think these might be wax or encaustics paints. Not sure, though.
13:48 the pottery things look a lot like pomegranates.
That's probably what they are, now you mention it.
What are the rules about using a screenshot from one of your videos to paint? I have some of my mom's old snapshots, but I also was looking at some of the angles of the images you captured too. I just wanted to be sure it is okay. Thanks, Teresa
Oh yes, please feel free to use a screenshot for paintings - there are copyright rules around this so it's always worth checking with the artist/Tuber; I'm fine with it. 🙂
@@BeckyTregear Thanks!
First! 😂
watercolours are dead simple to make. so if the pigments are available like that, maybe they just make their own at home. unless paper is the issue.
Could be many reasons I suppose! I want to make some more watercolours with pigments I already own. I can attest from experience that it's actually quite difficult to get the pigment to gum arabic ratio right, and some of my early attempts were pretty bad with everything crumbling apart once they'd set into pans. 😂
@@BeckyTregear remember the drop of honey and glycerine too.
I hate graffiti. I appreciate graffiti and street art as an "art form" when it's done on canvas or wood, but never on private or public property.
If graffiti and street artists think so highly of their talents one would think they'd tag their own homes and their own vehicles instead of property owned by anyone but themselves. Shame on them.
All of Athens was covered in graffiti...much like many cities I guess, but even more so!