Blick Art Materials

This is one of the art supplies stores that I usually go to purchase material for my sculptures. I have been using their coupons and saved a lot of money since since I am a frequent shopper and addicted to art. Customer service is great and store is always organized and clean. Always have a great shopping experience.

I LOVE Blick! The employees are all experienced artists and are super helpful whenever I have questions.
As a newbie to the artists world, I always have questions about products and their uses, and I always get the help and answers I need here.
The prices are ok, but you get the quality that you pay for. And they have great sales from time to time!

I thought Blick Art is art store not a snobby clothing store.
Your artist customers are way sensitive than you are thinking. You shouldn’t judge your customers with their look or treat them as a problem without any reason. If you don’t stand for the artist and just stand for the money then you will become a fancy toy store.

Had a very pleasant experience at this location. Brought my dogs in to grab some watercolor supplies. Service was really friendly so the Sunday crew is awesome. I said something to one of my dogs & an employee thought I was saying something to her. After I clarified, she didn’t give me that you-​are-​effin-​crazy look. Parking is easy. If you’re using Waze, just input «schoolhouse parking garage» and it’ll take you to the 90 min free parking garage across Blick.

I was waiting for a friend to get coffee with at Copa Vida. Since I had about half an hour to kill, I popped into Blick Art Materials to see what this place was about.
This is certainly more for people that do actual art — drawing, painting, coloring, etc. It’s not like Joanne’s or Michael’s where I’d say it’s more «crafty».
Huge selection of canvas’, paints, colored pencils, coloring books, etc. Staff is super knowledgeable and I’ll be coming back in as I explore more creative outlets!

Love coming to Blick in Old Pasadena… there is 90 min free parking right across the street. and sometimes I can even sneak into the 15 minute parking spot which is super close to the store. They are always helpful and knowledgeable.

Great store nestled in and amongst other great stores and restaurants. Blicks service is always exceptional… online services and in store! I like Pasadena location better than Santa Monica… cleaner area… larger store! If you need beginner to expert supplies, at a reasonable cost, Blicks is the one of the best places to start!

It’s great art store, but their survive is terrible. I don’t like the guys who work there. So mean. I’ll never go again…

I had a really bad experience at this store. I met a guy working at the counter. I asked him about the kit and it turned out he gave me a wrong kit with a extremely expensive price. I showed him the paper with the price on it from the class, and all he did was telling me that his price is right. I came out and checked the price one more time with my Prof. Later on i cameback and asked another staff and she told me that he mistakenly picked me a wrong kit (he was next to her). After I bought the kit, the two of them were talking. I asked to check if there are enough items in the kit and all they did were «okay» and left me there with a bag. After i checked everything, they saw me and not even came and help me put things to the bag.
Oh! And one more thing! They were so nice at the beginning with all the fake smile and greetings until problems occurred. Your job is to help customer! I will never come back!

I needed to pick up a gift for a co-​worker this evening and had the most helpful associate. She really went out of her way to research and answer some questions I had about drafting pencils and pens. Plus she’s ink artist herself so I knew I was getting insider intel. I’ll certainly be back and know who to turn to next time with my dorky drafting pencil questions.
Only minus was they didn’t have my first or second choices in stock, but these were admittedly esoteric.

Love coming here for my art supplies. They’re cheap with certain items than other places but still pricy. I wish there was a closer one other than pasadena but they have a lot of sales. My number one art store to go to.

Were it not for today’s experience with a member of staff at the counter, this would have been a 5 star review. I have had the pleasure of interacting with so many wonderful, helpful, happy members of staff in this branch many times, but today, before I’d even got to the counter to ask the questions I had, I was met with a completely poe-​faced, rather cold «I’ll see the next customer now» whilst looking me in the eye. I asked about a coupon I had received as a card holder & was ignored & informed that they have an offer this weekend but it’s not on yet. So I repeated what I said about my coupon as I’ve had staff happily honor coupons in absentia before now. Again, ignored & made to feel like I was being a nuisance & making things up. Ok, whatever. Keep shopping.
Shortly after, my husband found a paper coffee cup left on the shelf by somebody else and, being helpful & not wishing to let it sit in plain view on their display, he took it to the counter for someone to throw out. This same rather miserable woman informed him that they don’t have a trash can & he’d have to take it outside. IT WASN’T EVEN HIS, HE WAS TRYING TO HELP.
I’m saddened by this experience. It’s made me not want to come back, to be honest. I love Blick & I spend a lot of my money there as it’s the only place I buy my materials and I am a professional illustrator so I go through a lot of stuff! But now I feel embarrassed after the way I was spoken to about my coupon & quite amazed that she was actually suggesting my husband take someone else’s trash out of the store when he was trying to do the decent thing.
I was about to drop a couple of hundred dollars on various stuff in there today but I put it all back and left. Not cool.

This is by far the best Blick store I have been to in California because the customer service here is top notch. All the employees are engaged and knowledgeable. I recently had an awesome experience with Dayna. She was so pleasant and patient to work with while managing a number of returns and purchases for me. Thank you to her and all the employees at this store for making art supply shopping enjoyable and easy! I find this specific Blick store to be inspiring because the employees have good energy.

Way better than going to overpriced Aaron brothers, staff was helpful and knowledgable. Great quality product

Exellent customer service and great items with incredible quality. I am a very picky person when it comes to my art materials but this store definitely takes the biscuit!

Once in a while I come across a worker here who seems awkward when I ask them a question about prices. To me, half the employees here are not warm and fuzzy.
I think the prices here are high, and when I looked on the web to compare prices, Blick always comes up higher priced then other sights. Usually only come here when I need one thing.
Parking is a hassle if you’re parking on the street. Lot parking is available.

Won’t refund because the original credit card used was stolen and bank reissued me a card. Only store credit.
Bad policy!

Went in not knowing which kind of sharpener was best to use with my brand new Prismacolor Pencil set (150). Had been wanting this set for many years, so I wanted a pencil sharpener that did not eat my expensive set unnecessarily.
I called and spoke with Jeremy who gave me some excellent advice on which pencil sharpeners were best. He also was very knowledgable about pencil color work and gave me some really valuable tips and recommendations. This is what makes me come back to Dick Blick’s over and over. I don’t just get good prices, good quality materials, but the artists are working in the store and can give you something extra to take home in the way of valuable information.
Overall, I’ve always had a good customer experience with this store. The products are high quality and I always get good tips that save time, money, work and frustration in the long run. Highly recommended for anyone who is serious about their art.

My boyfriend and I visited for the first time to get some colored pencils he wanted. He specifically needed certain colors in which he had the item numbers, but this particular location didn’t have any of them.
The parking isn’t good for this one. If you’re lucky to get the front spot to parallel park, then fine, otherwise, you have to park a few streets away and walk to the store on foot.
The employee friendliness was average.

Sometimes, I go in for supplies. Other times, I walk in to find my future artsy, troubled husband.
This place has everything an artist could ever desire! I’ve come in here more than a dozen times, and still haven’t memorized the spread. There is just so much awesome to absorb!
The first floor is mostly the fun stuff, like paints, pens and basic supplies. The upstairs consists mostly of the larger stuff, like sketch pads, easels and carrying cases. Stuff like that.
They have really good sales sometimes, but are far and few in between. Don’t forget to sign up for their student discount card! :D