Jacksons Drawing Supplies Art Store Tour! Fremantle, Western Australia

Welcome to another Art Store Tour! Today I will visit Jacksons Drawing Supplies (not to be confused with UK's Jackson's Art!) in Western Australia. There are eleven Jacksons shops in WA and Northern Territory (NT), and the one I am touring is their large Fremantle store.
Don't forget to check out my whole playlist of art store tours if you want to see more videos like this one!
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Jacksons Drawing Supplies:
Website: www.jacksons.c...
Instagram: / jacksonsfreo (Fremantle)
/ jacksonsdrawingsupplies (Main account)
Art Gecko Sketchbooks:
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Faber Castell Colour4Life Art Competition (Australia only):
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Becky x

[@XepherusStudios]

Thank you for your videos. They make me happy and feel excited about art after watching them. You are delightful.

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you, I'm so glad! 😊

[@judywaddell6065]

Another well narrated art store tour video. You are becoming more polished with your narration. Keep up the good work!!!!!.

[@BeckyTregear]

Thank you! I'm always glad to improve - I worry about my voice sounding boring and droning on for too long, lol.

[@gingerblue]

LOVE these tours- thank you so much for doing them!!

[@BeckyTregear]

I'm so glad you're enjoying them! 😄

[@anitawaclawik4286]

Fun tour. Thanks for the Australian brands supply information.

[@awatercolourist]

Art store 🤤

[@firdyk]

Was so excited to see the notification for the promised Jackson's art shop tour. Thank you Becky

[@ChantelleArts]

This is so good, it looks like a fantastic store ☺☺

[@debsmith7050]

Great shop! Glad you found time to visit art shops along your way - we knew you would 💙

[@BeckyTregear]

I'm happy I squeezed in a bit of time for art shopping. Also because Perth is so far away from Melbourne and it was my one opportunity to have a look. There are more art shops around the area, but I decided just to pick the biggest one to make life easier, and less expensive, lol!

[@carrollwilson5169]

Fun tour. Probably “need” to go to Perth and wander through the shop. Looking forward to seeing your coming art haul video. Have a great weekend

[@BeckyTregear]

I enjoyed this particular store; it's the one in Fremantle, but I think there's another one near Perth CBD as well? I think the one in the actual CBD is no longer there. I hope you have a lovely weekend too!

[@Lee-Anne-ow3uo]

Great information thank you 😊

[@MirandaWatsonArt]

I have no idea why I find art store tours so interesting, but I do! Thanks for sharing!

[@BeckyTregear]

@@MirandaWatsonArt I'm glad, and thanks for watching! 😊

[@martinanelsonartandpsychol6478]

Just because you asked😊. I love Golden Acrylics they are so pigmented and their color range as well as their different „brands“ (Heavy Body, Fluid, Soflat etc.) are so wide and diverse. I think they are the best on the market. Love how interesting your videos are.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@martinanelsonartandpsychol6478 Thank you for your thoughts! 😊 I love Golden paints too, from what I've tried so far.

[@sosumi_rogue]

Thank you for your comprehensive view of the store. I really enjoyed it. I get a vicarious thrill walking through new stores to see everything available in other places in the world. I hope you get to travel to the US one day and see our stores. 🤗

[@BeckyTregear]

@@sosumi_rogue I hope so too! I'd love to visit a Blick store and Jerry's Artarama. ❤️

[@lmille32]

I like your fun art brand facts! I have to admit I didnt know alot about australian art brands and I'm glad i know more after your video!

[@BeckyTregear]

@@lmille32 Thank you, I'm glad there was some useful info in there! 😊

[@pennypop408]

Oh you had me for a sec thought UK Jackson's was moving to Oz. Trust you to sniff out another art shop, thanks for the tour lol.

[@BeckyTregear]

Haha yes it is so confusing that they share almost the same name! 😂 UK Jackson's has a shipping centre based in Adelaide, but I don't think they have a storefront. I'd totally go if they did!

[@mariatrapani851]

HI, I AM FROM BRISBANE, QUEENSLAND, I LOVE YOUR ART STORE SO MUCH TO SEE AND BUY WOW, LOVE IT. BYE MARY

[@BeckyTregear]

@@mariatrapani851 Thank you 😊

[@blackdogtradingco.8262]

I grew up in Perth, Western Australia and did my first art degree there. Jackson's was the go to place for any art supplies. As an art student, who was broke most of the time they seemed so expensive back then but you knew whatever you wanted you could get. So glad to see they are still going strong!

[@BeckyTregear]

@@blackdogtradingco.8262 I think art supplies are just always expensive, lol. 😂

[@karenirving7088]

Great shop

[@BeckyTregear]

I liked it very much!

[@THEMAYQUEEN1]

Wow how fun!! I am going to visit the Sydney art shop in a couple of weeks. Am very excited!!!

[@BeckyTregear]

@@THEMAYQUEEN1 Oooh that's a good one! I went there in 2018 and it has possibly moved to a new location since then. I bought my black velvet silver brushes from them 😊

[@THEMAYQUEEN1]

@@BeckyTregear it's in Botany now. I am so looking forward to it. I visited Parker's art supplies last year.they are in the Rocks.

[@vhacker71]

Those stripes of fabric may also be for silkscreen printing. great video. Thank for sharing 🎉

[@BeckyTregear]

That's no doubt correct, and I probably couldn't think of the words when recording my voiceover, haha! 😂

[@vhacker71]

@@BeckyTregearI can only imagine how hard voiceovers are. I think you do a great job. 🎉

[@adrienne4971]

Thanks Becky for the tour. I love art shops. As you say, just looking around one is so exciting and relaxing at the same time. Unfortunately here in the UK our art shops are few and far between. If I ever go to Fremantle I will certainly go to that shop!!

[@BeckyTregear]

@@adrienne4971 I so need to go back to the UK and hunt for art shops. Like you say, it doesn't seem like there are as many there as we have here, which is weird because the population of Australia is so much less!

[@TracieWho]

Love the art store tours. Thank you for doing them! I haven't been able to be in an art store in years - since before the world shut down. I had no idea that Jo Sonya paints were made in Australia. I had assumed that since the Jo Sonya studio and museum is located here in the US, and that Jo Sonja is American (I believe) they were made here.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@TracieWho I thought Jo Sonja was American too, but the company seems to be Australian....aaahhh it's so confusing! 😂

[@TracieWho]

@@BeckyTregear I read the company's bio on their website and it didn't mention at all where or when the paint line had launched. I get disappointed when that happens. I like to know where my products are made whenever I can. I believe in giving the rest of the world a chance to have my hard earned money if I can. Everything here is made in China and so it always gives me great pleasure when I can spread my meager wealth at home or to other countries. Not that I hate China or anything, I just don't like the monopoly it has on us.

[@FaithAnnNB]

What a huge store… they seem to have some of everything! Tried to think of what I might treat myself to, if I were wandering that store on holiday; there was so much to choose from, I might have decision paralysis where I couldn’t decide on anything as that occasionally happens to me 😅.

[@BeckyTregear]

I know that feeling! I chose items which I've never seen in Melbourne, which narrowed down a lot of it. Now what's the bet I'll find them here easily, lol.

[@lozantoninocreations]

My friend Rose did a video on a similar art kit to the flower one you didn't get. She realised that she could do the same thing with just the supplies from her art room and didn't really need the kit. I actually can see you creating a 3D art piece like it with your coloured papers and things.

[@BeckyTregear]

Yes I figured that would be the case! Having things in kits is always tempting though, lol.

[@zenlife1200]

I saw there were some tins of Derwent pencils on the shelf above the Faber Castell classic red sets. There was an inktense color chart pinned above them so I guess they were inktense sets. The 4 main NZ art stores that I shop online in, each have different mixtures of brands, of different mediums, so it is starting to get easier to find more brands here now thankfully. Some shops only sell the tins or sets of a medium or brand and another might only sell that medium or brand, open stock. I prefer open stock where possible so I don't feel like I'm wasting money on colors I won't use. I had no idea Australia had so many art supply producers. I should have a look to see which of your stores might ship things here.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@zenlife1200 I'm sure I missed things in there which others will spot, haha! I'm glad NZ is getting more stuff in. I think some stores here will ship to NZ too. 😊

[@amypanddirtytoo1926]

Jackson's NEEDS to open a store in the US!!! I order from the mall the time and I have never gotten anything in LESS THAN THREE DAYS!!!! From friggin ENGLAND to the US! When stuff from US stores takes two weeks......... And, no, I am not paying for shipping! I place a large enough order to get free shipping, but just regular, not overnight or two day. Although I have a sneaking suspicion it is cuz it flies straight into JFK, which is only an hour and a half from where I live in CT.

[@MrsBarnabas]

Amy, I think you missed the first few minutes of the video? Both there and in the description, Becky says, _"Jacksons Drawing Supplies (not to be confused with UK's Jackson's Art!)"_ Incidentally, Jacksons UK does have a warehouse in Australia and also, the US, which will package and send out orders of the things they stock (they don't have the full inventory). They aren't heaviy publicised, but when I ordered a gift for a friend in Australia, it said that where appropriate, that's where goods would be shipped from. And more than one ArtTuber in the US has mentioned that one. This may be why your orders only take three days? Jackson's also enable the orders to bypass Customs by covering the fees in the price you pay at checkout, and that cuts down transport time, which via Customs can add several days, or even a couple of weeks, depending on the time of year.

[@BeckyTregear]

Yes, it's very confusing that they share similar business names, haha! I think Jackson's Art UK has their warehouse in Adelaide, and if they ever open a store front then I would so drive back there for it! 😆

[@amypanddirtytoo1926]

​@@MrsBarnabaslol, NOPE! I didn't! I just hear like crap and literally thought she was saying it WAS the same company as Jackson's in the UK!🤣🤣🤣

[@amypanddirtytoo1926]

​@MrsBarnabas Oh! Also, no. I'm not getting anything from the US warehouse. I am ordering off the UK site, my packages are packed and ship from Heathrow to JFK, from there to USPS, and then to my house. You have to choose the US site to get stuff from the US warehouse. Which I don't want to do because where the warehouse is located is even further from my house than the originating warehouse for Blick. And Blick takes two WEEKS! I mean, it takes them a day to package and drop off to the carrier, buy it takes the carrier as long as they want!😂😂

[@MrsBarnabas]

@@BeckyTregear With you there, Becky!!! These days, I'd love a holiday in the UK where I could also fit in a visit to their London stores - and CassArt, too! But to do so, I'd need to be a: very rich, b: have my own aircraft to ship me and all my purchases back to SW France!!! Hey-ho, imagination is great thing, but not always practical!!! 😄 But equally, I can close my eyes and imagine you taking a road trip to Adelaide with an empty trailer behind to accommodate your shopping - or maybe even running a minibus to take your local artists with you (plus larger trailer on the back for all the shopping... ) having arranged with the store to stock up for your arrival😄

[@amypanddirtytoo1926]

I hope you bought some Art Gecko papers! I have heard of them, but because I just don't know the quality I haven't bought anything by them. I would love to see what you think of them, but obviously only if you already bought them. I'm not asking you to go buy more "stuff" just to make spending easier for me.🤣🤣

[@BeckyTregear]

All shall be revealed next week (but spoiler: yes, I did!). 😂

[@sues7227]

I asked a local art store in Adelaide why they were no longer stocking Derwent. I was after Inktense. They said Officeworks is selling them and bypassing the wholesaler so their shop can't compete with Officeworks price.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@sues7227 Woah I didn't know that! I think here in Melbourne, The Art Shop's prices for Derwent are cheaper than Officeworks...or at least they were. Things keep changing in the art world!

[@bluewren65]

I'm not sure that's true. Whenever I look at the prices on sets, or even often on open stock, I find that there are many art stores, nationally that offer better prices than Officeworks. I have never found that officeworks offers the cheapest prices on art materials. Remember that Officeworks is owned by Wesfarmers which also owns coles/myer. Given how badly we are gouged for our groceries, it's unsurprising that the prices for professional art materials at officeworks are also not exactly competitive.

[@artandmusic09]

It's interesting to see which paint brands are popular where. In the US, I see lots of W&N, Daniel Smith and M. Graham. I'm dying to get Schmincke's floral set.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@artandmusic09 M.Graham is less common here; I only know of one shop near me who stocks them. The Schmincke florals look like a very pretty set!

[@akschauer]

I love these art store tours! A minor correction in the video, I *think* Jo Sonja is an American brand based in Eureka, California, but I do see more of their products show up in Australian art store tours, so I might be wrong. My local art store in eastern Washington state only carries a small selection of their products.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@akschauer Thank you! I keep getting conflicting info on Jo Sonja, so I am really not sure at this point, haha! 😂

[@akschauer]

@@BeckyTregear I did a little more searching and what I've figured out is that she and her website are based in America, but the paints are made by Chroma in Australia. Maybe her folk art style became popular in Australia and Chroma approached her about creating a line of paints.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@akschauer There we go, that's why it's so confusing! 😂 Thank you for your research, I'm glad to actually know the answer now, lol. 😊

[@amandahodgin9316]

I love art store tours. Even though the nearest Canadian city to me is a pretty good size (by Canadian standards), it doesn’t have an art store. Craft store, yes, art store, no. The nearest one to me is 120km and requires a significant investment in time and fuel to visit. They do have an online shop but shipping costs are so high in Canada that it isn’t worth it unless you’re going to purchase a lot of things at once. It is a lovely little shop, though and it’s fun to make a day trip to go visit once in a while. I really admire the way Australia manufactures their own brands of art supplies. That’s not common in Canada. I know of only two brands of watercolour paint that are made in Canada…..Beam and Stoneground. I have never seen Beam paint in a store in my part of Canada and I only know of one store even remotely near me that carries Stoneground. In fact, I can lay my hands on Mont Martre art supplies more easily in my nearby city than I can any Canadian brands. Makes me a bit sad that I can’t easily support my own country’s brands.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@amandahodgin9316 Shipping costs are the worst! I always prefer to go into a shop as well when I can, rather than buying online. I haven't heard of those two Canadian brands! I will have to look for them to see what they make. 😊 I found Mont Marte paints in Greece too last year. 😂

[@amandahodgin9316]

@@BeckyTregear I went shopping this afternoon and found an awesome Mont Martre organizer box for my paints. The chain store Marshall’s seems to carry the brand. I’m pretty sure it’s the Canadian version of TJ Maxx. Stoneground paints are beautiful. Lily Moon and Denise Soden have done videos about them. Beam paints are very unique. Their story is very interesting and worth checking out. It’s an indigenous company and they package their paints in environmentally conscious packaging. Instead of plastic half pans, their paint is poured into beeswax canvas tubes. You can get their curated palettes that are poured into carved out slabs of birch. I’m pretty sure Emma Lefebvre has a video on them.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@amandahodgin9316 Now you mention that, I think I've seen a video on the Beam paints! Thank you 😊

[@rayne6737]

Omg, We have the smallest Dick Blick’s on the planet. Doesn’t have a fraction of the stuff other art stores I have seen pictures and videos of. They won’t ever move to a larger space either. I asked. My bucket list consists of one thing right now and that is to go out of state to a larger art store. It doesn’t have to be Dick Blick’s either.

[@amypanddirtytoo1926]

Also, I never heard of West Art, but Jackson's own brand is called Jackson's.

[@BeckyTregear]

This company is Australian, and is listed as Jacksons Drawing Supplies, which is different from UK's Jackson's Art. It's very confusing because they share that Jackson name! But yes, two completely different companies.

[@artandmusic09]

Is Strathmore paper good? I have heard mixed reviews about it.

[@BeckyTregear]

@@artandmusic09 I've liked the papers I've tried in their range. But I don't use them a lot so I can't give a definite answer on that! ❤️

[@awatercolourist]

First!