Askew-Taylor Paints

What a wonderful art store, filled with everything an artist needs and wants. The customer service is friendly and right on target with help.

This store is like the inside of an artist’s mind!!! Every single paint, paintbrush, paper, pastel, anything you would need to create art is here. The owner and employees here are the best! Truly the best art store I’ve been to!

The BEST art supply store in the Triangle. Don’t forget to go upstairs and explore and shop. While your there, see how many different wallpaper patterns you can find. AS is truly a hidden gem that all must discover. Kudos to Kirk Taylor, a business man and Artist who has helped many Artists through the years.

This tiny store has anything you might ever need to create some cool art~
It’s pretty cluttered but the owners know where everything is. Better yet, the owners are true artists so they’ll share with you their input and recommendations!
If you look hard enough, you’ll find good deals!
I.e. My mom and I found some brushes for 50% off!
Bonus, 10% off to all students and artists :)
The parking lot directly across the street is free and just for this place!
Friendly and knowledgable owners, cool finds, and tons of options– a solid art store!

Fast friendly service! They had a surprisingly extensive collection of supplies for being such a small place. Great resource in downtown Raleigh.

I LOVE this place! Such a Raleigh gem! I’m a Zentangle Instructor and I recommend this place to my students all the time. They have every brush, pen and anything else any artist would ever need. Their prices are excellent and the people that work there are always so very friendly and helpful. I know before I even open the door that I will definitely find what I’m looking for.

FREE Parking Directly Across the Street… As long as you are a Customer of Askew-​Taylor Paints! This is what I wanted to know! Where to Park!
Art Supplies! Paints, Dyes, Artist Brushes, Canvas and lots of Sketch Books! If you do not know how to Sketch… Start! Learn by Starting! If you are still Sketching on the back of Mackers bags, it is Time to Graduate to a REAL SketchBook!
Being Faithful or Unfaithful to my Regular Art Supply Store I had to see this! As an Escape Artist finding Inspiration is usually VERY Easy, though it is in a similar Vein, and I wanted to see if I’m missing any Tools or _​_​_​_​_​ (I mainly Paint in Blue, with just a little Red)!
This place is Cool! Organized though Hole-​in-​the-​Wall for this part of Glenwood… Hey that is only going to add to the Inspiration and Romance of this place for most Artists and then I tell you: This place could be Haunted! In a Romantic and Inspiring way!

Fairies can be hiding here! Glorious selection of Art supplies and friendly helpful staff: D

Excellent local store. The owner is extremely helpful and will find what you need if they don’t have it in stock. The prices are reasonable and they have a student discount. The place is packed full of stuff so you should have no issue finding the usual art needs.

If you’re at all creative, Askew-​Taylor is a cave of wonders. Need inkjet paper for mixed-​media transfers? They have it. Fifteen shades of art markers? Right there. A dozen weights of watercolour paper? Done. Mold-​making compound and pouring resin? On the shelf in several sizes. Balsa wood and sandpaper and silkscreening ink and canvas-​making materials and calligraphy ink and model train supplies and papermaking kits and clay suitable for sculpting dolls and sheets of copper and printing brayers? Hope you brought a big bag, because you will find it all and so much more.
Located in an old house off Glenwood Aveune, A-​T is an established local business where you’ll find genuinely warm, helpful customer service that’s as old-​fashioned as the vintage flooring in the upstairs rooms. Prices are comparable to most brick and mortar establishments, but the business sets itself apart by bringing a personal touch to every transaction and by making customers feel appreciated — something the vast majority of chains stores have let fall by the wayside. Sure, the stairwell makes you wonder if there’s a weight limit and parking can be a hassle, but if you’re looking for quality supplies in both the general arts and niche categories plus staff who know their inventory and customers, there’s nowhere you’d be better off shopping.

Oh my! I can be an art supply hoarder and this store can only contribute to my addiction! First of all the atmosphere in the store is amazing! No everything is not neatly organized and it may be overwhelming if you are a «neat freak» but honestly that’s my favorite part of this store. THEY HAVE EVERYTHING! Seriously! No matter what your medium they got it! And they have some of the hardest to locate and best quality stuff out there. The owners are fantastic in knowing what they have and what they can get for you.
I will be completely honest and say I work for a craft store, but as a watercolor artist I just can’t get the really great quality stuff from my employer. I was blown away by what they have and how reasonable, yes reasonable their prices are.
If you are an artist you will find this store to be heaven!

Recent Design school grad here. I always received a 10% off discount as a student, which was awesome. Every little bit helps.
Askew’s really is full of everything you might ever need — you just might have to ask where it is. Their setup is a little more intuitive as opposed to the sterile, aisle-​type setups at a Michaels or Jerry’s. At Askew’s, you find colored pencils next to paint brushes next to artist’s pads next to sketchbooks, which just encourages creativity and range of work. Who knows, you might just find something you’ve never tried before.
Friendly, knowledgeable staff, in a fun, vintage-​y atmosphere (old house). Truly the best place to go for art supplies — or inspiration.

I’m not an artsy type, but I know plenty of them. That’s how I know a quality art supply store when I see one. I watch the artsy people go into one. In the larger stores in the area, I watch them go to the section they need to find what they came for and get out. Very efficient, I suppose.
In Askew-​Taylor, though, they look like kids in a candy shop. Well, this place is pretty classy so let’s call it a candy shoppe. They go around and ogle everything, even straying from their specialties. Painters look at sculpting stuff, sculptors look at sketch pads, and drawers seriously consider coloring their own work.
All this in a what looks like a totally forgettable spot from the outside.

Askew-​Taylor is small, but they do a lot with the space they have. The stacks of sketchbooks and crammed-​in racks of pens and paints are way more effective at getting my creative juices flowing than sterile, spaced shelves of «products» at chain stores. It’s like getting to raid someone else’s studio.
Often I can’t find what I need by myself, so I ask the dudes that hang out/​work there and they’re always friendly and have suggestions if I have a question about what I’m doing.
I’m not an art student either, but they always give me a discount without even saying anything. I think it’s about 10%.

Askew Taylor is — I think — the only business that’s held on all the way through the development of Glenwood South. And as soon as you enter you will know it’s been there a long time.
Meandering passageways wind through stacks of every sort of art supply imaginable. Even though the building is not that big, I feel like I might get lost every time I go in there. I really just don’t know how they pass fire inspections; but I hope they continue to get away with it, because it’s one of Raleigh’s coolest stores.
The most amazing thing about Askew Taylor is that the prices aren’t really any higher than any big chain store, like Jerry’s Artarama. Plus, I’ve heard a rumor that art students get a discount… I’m not an art student, so I don’t know if this is true or not.

This place really is a treasure trove.
I don’t have much in the way of talents for visual arts, but I’ve been here a few times with friends I’ve been amazed at how much stuff is crammed into this building.
If you’re a visual artist, this store is much more suited towards actual creativity than a place like Michael’s.
Without a doubt, this best art supply store in Raleigh.

Do you need art supplies?
Come to this old house chock full of every imaginable medium you would ever, ever, EVER use. Brave the creeky old stairs and marvel at the rooms stocked high with canvases, oil paints, different types of paper made from flowers, cardstock, pastels, watercolors, charcols, markers, journals, and brushes. The peeling wallpaper and waterstained celing makes you wonder about the house’s mysterious past.
If you weren’t feeling artistic before you entered Askew-​Taylor, you’ll leave feeling motivated to create a masterpiece. I come here everytime I’m low on supplies or am feeling creatively blocked. I leave enriched in every sense of the word. I am not foolin’, man.