Opus art supplies in Vancouver v. Blick art supplies in Los Angeles

I am on a one week art exploration in California. I decided that I wanted to find out the main art supplies stores in L.A. and so I ended up at Blick at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and Colby. The store was a bit bigger than the Opus store in Granville Island. I explored every single isle in the store and these are some of the a few things that I found intriguing:

I've been looking to find this amazing triangle shaped palette knife that I have from Bob Ross collection from  Michael's (a craft store in Canada) and Opus just doesn’t' carry it. I found another brand name of the same palette knife at Blick.

I found these giant size oil sticks/oil pastels at Blick. They are about 3/4 inch thick which are great for large scale paintings.

I've been using disposable colour palette at Opus for over a year now. the biggest size they have at opus is 12x 16. Guess what size I found at the Blick? 24x30! I was tempted to buy one, but it wouldn't fit into my luggage; so, I didn't.

And I have been going to so many galleries on this trip and I noticed that the works generally here are extremely large scale. It puts my large scale paintings to shame. And as a result I found that at Blick they have more collections of larger scale canvases, but not a bigcollection on wood panel, which is what I love to paint on. The paintings are mostly done on canvas here.