A real art store, run by artists. Core supplies for every artist, from first sketchbook to mural rig.
Not a big box. A counter that knows the work.
VISUAL art+supply specializes in aerosols and painting and drawing supplies, with the everyday fundamentals right beside them. We stock the street-art kit you cannot easily find elsewhere in town, and the basics every artist runs through.
The walls are hung with work from local underground and emerging artists, so the shop doubles as a gallery while you browse.
VISUAL grew out of San Diego's underground and urban contemporary scene, graffiti, street art, muralism and fine art. That shapes what's on the shelf: a deep aerosol and marker wall next to the brushes, inks and canvas every painter needs.
If you paint walls or fill sketchbooks, you'll find your kit here.
It's a small shop with an artist behind the register. Ask what cap to use, which paper takes ink, how a medium behaves. You get a real answer, not a shrug and a barcode.
That's the whole point of shopping local for your materials.
A real spray wall, the markers and inks artists actually ask for, and the everyday basics.
