Hello, my name is Eyeliz and I would like to present you my favourite shop TABLOO. Being an art lover, I can find there everything I need to draw and to paint. When you dare to visit Leuven's newest art shop, don't be scared if I stare at you from behind the window with my mysterious Mona Lisa smile!
At TABLOO you can find everything that you need to draw and to paint with all kinds of materials and different types of paint: gouache, acrylics, oil colours, water colours and Ecoline. There are also pencils, pastels, inks, paper, palettes, canvases and painting easels. Brands of good quality like Royal Talens (Van Gogh / Rembrandt / Amsterdam), Daler-Rowney (System 3 / Georgian) and Lukas-Nerchau GmbH inspire every artists’ life in each step of his artistic journey.
On this page you get information about temporary promotions, special announcements or new articles which you can find at TABLOO. Also gift cards are available!
Tips for a creative Christmas gift with promotions until December 31:
Or offer a gift card under the Christmas tree!
ACTION Saint Nicholas till 6th of December
-10% on these sets of BRUYNZEEL:
Super Sixties Kever metal box 60 colour pencils
Kleurrijk metal box 45 colour pencils
Expression metal box 36 colour pencils
Expression metal box 48 fineliner/brush pen (dual point)
Kids set 30 coloured felt pens
Kids set 6 poster paint sticks
From May 1 to August 31:
Complete set of 48 fineliners / brush pens (dual point - brush tip) by BRUYNZEEL: perfect for urban sketching, hand lettering, bullet journalling, brush lettering and drawing. For 49,50 euros including free sketchbook with lilac leather cover, elastic band and reading ribbon (140gsm paper, 21 x 15cm, 80 sheets) by TALENS Art Creation.
As a gift tip for a communion or spring party, or as a holiday idea.
For all your drawing and painting material
TABLOO welcomes all drawing and painting lovers! Each course is organized in series of 6 lessons. There are also children's workshops during the school holidays. We work in small groups, so it’s necessary to sign up in advance. Are you interested? Then send an e-mail to info@tabloo.be or call the number 0032 (0)16/20 55 29. (only during the opening times of the shop)
If you want to learn how to draw and paint, this course helps you to know the basic principles in a simple way. The first 3 lessons will be concentrated on drawing: object, face and body. During the last 3 sessions, you will make a painting in oil colours based on the age-old glaze technique in 2 layers. In this way you will end the course with your first completed masterpiece! These workshops can be continued by another drawing course if you want to have more exercise in drawing or by a basic painting course if you rather want to develop your painting skills.
For all those who want to learn how to paint with oil colours. You will learn the basic principles of this ancient medium by first sketching and then painting a simple object/still life to perception, by paying attention to the creative and personal interpretation of the background. Other topics such as portrait, landscape, animal,… are covered in a subsequent series. These workshops can also be continued by an advanced course in which we will paint more intensively according to different styles of several famous artists.
For kids who for once want to be a real artist. Like the great masters, they first make a design sketch based on the specific workshop theme. After a break with drink and snack they paint their design in colorful acrylic paint on a canvas or on an object. At the end of the session, they go home with their own work of art.
TABLOO not only offers materials to draw and paint, but you can also watch creative work of other artists there. TABLOO’s own small gallery wants to be a little artistic paradise for all art lovers and a place where art is always present. Would you also like to exhibit your work at TABLOO? Then mail to info@tabloo.be or call number 016/20 55 29 for more information.
Kris Neyt (°1957) from Assenede is not the flamboyant type that calls himself an artist, according to him: “I did not choose the art, but the art has chosen me”. And so it comes that as a child he dreamed of making art. He always drew wherever he could, to the annoyance of his parents who saw a different future for their son than the artist's existence. And so he chose the profession of teacher in mechanics and technical drawing, but he never stopped painting...
When Corina Karstenberg (°1967, Netherlands) exhibited at TABLOO for the first time four years ago, she could never have imagined that on her 55th her work would reach galleries in Venice, Rome and Florence. However, she also regularly returns to Leuven, where in the early years ’90 she learned to paint with oil “under the loving guidance of Pol Marien at the Leuven Academy of Art”, as she tells with a lot of appreciation. After her Belgian adventure as restorer of African art, she followed religion studies and then a master in cultural history at Radboud University in Nijmegen. These two subjects – religion and culture – she then incorporated into her portraits of people worldwide with symbols incorporated that often are related to their cultural and religious background and have influenced their life stories.
OPENING HOURS
Sunday and Monday closed
Tuesday till Friday 13:00-18:30
Saturday 10:00-18:00
