Blick Art Materials — Local services in Providence

1. Dishonest pricing practices. They caim to match the store price with the web price which is totally untrue. Every single time I bought something at the storethe price was higher than online. The store explanation is "the shipping charges that are charged online are added to the store bough items". However there are NO shipping charges with purchases over $35.
2. Selection is rather limited, mostly aimed to student and lacks some of the high quliaty items needed by professional artist.
3. Blick online change prices dramatically without any logial explanation. For instance, some Old Holland oils went from $37 (August) to $47 (November). However Old Holland has not chaged their prices and there has not been any US/EUR fluctuation to justify...

Great selection of materials! High prices but frequent markdowns. One star for customer experience. Blick's website reports a 9:00 opening time on Sundays, but this location opens at 10. This is correct on Google Maps so I should have realized, but the staff at the Providence location made me WAIT OUTSIDE in cold March weather when I showed up at 9:57. I work in retail myself and would understand if I had arrived say... Fifteen minutes before official opening time. But for three minutes AND given the incorrect information online, it'd have been just as easy and a lot less rude to open the doors and let me start browsing while they finished opening. I'll likely be using Blick's website...

This is a great art store. While they may not have everything, they do have quite a lot of supplies. The parking lot is small and had no room this day I came here, but I found plenty of on street parking, and there are several side streets near by. I was greeted the instant I stepped in the door and was directed to where I needed to go. I needed some oil paint supplies, and they had 95% of what I needed. The staff is very friendly and occasionally checks in on you if you look lost, which is great in my opinion, and the store is clean and well lit. I recommend this store all day and will be...