Art Friend

Coming all the way from Singapore, comes the much talked about arts and crafts galore– Art Friend. It used to be such a hassle to find craft materials whenever I needed them back then but nooww, I can just make a quick trip to The Curve and get whatever I need! From acrylics, easel, wood blocks, notebooks, loom bands, stickers, cross stitching, canvas, paint brush, moulds and pretty much EVERYTHING else. The store takes up quite a stretch and if you need any help with finding what you need, you can always ask their shop assistant and they will help you. However, there is a very limited amount of staffs though for this huge store so you might not always get the attention you want.
If you also see yourself frequently coming back here for supplies, with just RM 10 you can become a member and will be entitled to discounts and promotions on items in store too. And hey, even if you don’t do any arts & crafts I can almost assure that walking into this store will tempt you to buy everything and have a go at home!

Art and craft lovers, do you know there’s a big art and craft supply shop in The Curve? Art Friend a Singapore company, and the shop at The Curve is their 2^nd branch. Art Friend is located on the 2^nd floor, next to Reject Shop.
Joe is interested in art, so we’ve been to the shop several times. The shop is really huge and they have a wide selections in the shop. You can find stationaries for drawing and painting, various type of paints for different purposes, canvas, materials and tools, beads and many others. You can really spend hours in the shop. I spent a very long time just to browse through the selections of pens and pencils they have, and I was very tempted to buy a few to start my own scrapbook!
The staffs at Art Friend are very helpful. Although the items are well organized, but due to the amount of products they have in the shop, it’s very normal to get lost and overlooked the items that you are looking for. You can always check with the staffs and they are more than willing to assist you.
If you purchase art and craft items regularly, it’s a good idea to sign up for their membership. For a fee of RM10, you’ll get 10% off from your purchase. I will definitely recommend Art Friend to anyone, regardless they are into drawing, painting or craft work.

Best place to stock up art materials! Artists around! Here is the place to be :)
Really love the variety in store. There are so many available alternatives if you can’t get the brand you need. It’s the artist’s paradise here. Like LITERALLY!
I want to own the whole shop one day LOL.
From markers, to doodle pens, to calligraphy pens, to all sorts of paint medium, to canvas board to spray paints, to those pallet tubs, OMAIGOD and they even have a whole section for pain brushes of different animal hair types! They also have it separated to halal and non– halal brushes! How considerate :)
The staff there are really helpful and knowledgeable. They will know what you need exactly if you can’t remember the brand.
I have been coming back to them almost every 2 weeks to check out on new things. Of course, the pricing is quite pricey for art materials but sometimes window shopping here makes me feel so good :)

Another branch for those who are into arts and hand crafts. I usually go to the one in the Gardens, the art supplies that I usually get are the small brushes, mechanical pencils, putty rubber, refillable leds and sketch books. Art Friends has a lot more than that, it has art supplies for hand crafts, sculpting, printing, canvases, wooden supplies and a lot more for art enthusiast.
Though prices for these stuff are not cheap, that is because they are high quality brands and materials. Like my mechanical pencil I just bought cost about rm25, and that is the cheapest. But the quality is good and sturdy and uses a larger led. So it is great that there is another branch in the Curve, makes it easier for those living in Damansara and Kepong area to get their art supplies

Whatever your creative calling may be, known that Art Friend is a store that have you covered. Before they open a branch at the Curve, I had no choice but to order my Daler-​Rowney acrylic color inks and pen nibs online.
Whether it’s paper products, canvases, paint supplies, craft fabric, sculpting material or tools and equipments such as easels, light tracing boxes and beading supplies, you can find it all here. For artists and illustrators, Art Friend does carry a lot of the leading global brands in art supplies like Daler-​Rowney, Faber Castel, and Copic.
You can even find some of the hard-​to-​get art supplies from Japan too, such as manga paper, and all the Copic marker colours in the catalogue and refills, as well as drawing pens, so you can build up your own set. If you buy art supplies on a regular basis, you may want to consider applying for a membership which only requires you to present your MyKad (or passport) for a 10% discount on all purchases.

With absolute delight upon discovery, Damansara now has the biggest art and craft supplies shop right in The Curve shopping mall, Mutiara Damansara! The store is huge and located on the second floor next to The Reject Shop. Originally from Singapore, this is their second branch opening, first being in Mid Valley Mall.
Albeit being a treasure of all things artistic, every section and row of the place is arranged very systematically and you can’t help but to walk through everything and grasp the vastness of the provision of this place. Stationaries, easels (from tiny cute ones to professional ones), sorts of materials and tools for printmaking/​sketchbook fetishist/​crafts/​etc, rollers and inks, canvases, pretty much all mediums of paint, DIYs, beads for jewelry making, you name it, they’ve got it!
Being a lover of oil and acrylic painting, I was immediately overwhelmed by the amount and different sizes and types of canvases they provide. Before this, I was purchasing the board canvas from Daiso for RM5 and thought it was cheap but now that I have found this place, I won’t be looking elsewhere! The range of sizes is massive and I thought that they are very reasonably priced.
Art Friend offers memberships too, all you have to do is fill out a form at the cashier and for RM10, you get a 10% discount. The handy part is, if you never know where all your membership cards are like me, they don’t use cards but you just need to give them your id/​ic number. It’s really worth it if you buy art materials on a regular basis.
However, I was disappointed the first time I came because it closes at 9pm and I had no idea, presuming that all shops in malls closes the same time. Nonetheless, that is a tiniest setback for a great store.