Premier Art Supplies

For those of you who raided the art room in high school and totally convinced yourself you were going to make use of that 2L bottle of red paint and 500 pipe cleaners «some day», this place is the adult, and legal, version of that pantry of pastels, paints and pop sticks.
Whether you are looking for 5 mm foam boards for creating architectural models, 5kg of glitter or a rainbow of cardboards, paints and paper brighter than a unicorn fart then Premier Art Supplies is your go to.
The staff are super helpful, have almost everything in stock and are incredibly well priced for the quality of materials.
I have bought spray paint, brushes and puff paints (like you couldn’t resist either) here and will always return for the «hard to find» materials at reasonable price.
Just remember though, this time you have to pay for all the stuff you have convinced yourself you «totally need» for that art project at home.

Premier Art Supplies is a must for anyone with an interest in artsy type craft projects. I’ve brought everything from paint supplies, to pastels, all high quality, and for a reasonable price.
I also find the staff here to be really quite helpful, especially for a novice who doesn’t know one brand of paint from the next. They know their stuff and are more than happy to take the time to run you through everything. It makes the whole process a little less daunting.

This place is awesome. If you’ve ever taught a primary school class, these sorts of places are every bit as essential to you as breweries are to pissheads.
This place in particular, Premier Art Supplies is really well stocked. I do find that I need to make a list of stuff that I am buying before I go, because I find it far too tempting to grab far too many impulse buys and then wonder why my fridge is empty and why I can’t fit everything into my classroom supplies cupboard.
The staff are lovely and helpful. One thing that I find is that I often don’t know the names of some of the things I’m looking for so they need to decode my really very crappy descriptions from time to time. They’re very patient, and did I mention helpful?

If you need something specific, things that you can’t find anywhere else, this place will have it if it’s art related. I had to get my son an art smock and the only ones I could find where the plastic ones. A — they are very small and he really wasn’t quite that small by then, and B — they were plastis and he would break the straps and the pocket off in no time, probably even before the first lesson.
I went here and found a whole range and managed to get a better one at a still ok price which was worth it anyway since it lasted so much longer.
While I was there though I found myself feeling very overcome at all they had available and left with some paints, foam brushes, normal brushes in all sizes and my favourite item, the granules to make the glue you use for papier mache (you can use it for heaps of other stuff too). We had a ball playing with it and getting all dirty and messy, I felt like I was taken back to my own school days. We have used it for heaps of things now and still have plenty left. For what we paid it goes heaps far.

Premier is a large and helpful retailer of Art Supply products located on Gilles St in the City, just next to Pultney Grammar School.
They have a wide range of products including some of the higher end fine art materials, such as Rembrandt Pastels and Shminke watercolour both of which I can highly recommend.
In addition they stock student quality art materials and a range of craft materials as well and also cater to school age children’s art and craft needs.
The staff generally are of assistance and will provide advice where they can as to the use and properties of materials. Prices are also quite good. I picked up a view finder here which has proved invaluable for landscape painting, and I recommend to any one who dabbles in plein air painting to try it out.