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Stack of store-made art supplies (mostly watercolors in both tins and individual caps, a few bottles of ink) on the front desk.

Colorful floral designs on mini tins.

Packaged and labeled, but still need barcode stickerz.stickers. The new mini tins are so cuuuute.

A wooden lobster painted in teal, pink, and yellow, in the front window.

View of top if lobster from inside the store

Hand holding up lobster to show backside design at register

Side of lobster has flower designs.

Window lobster!!! 🦞🦞🦞 Just a friend to hang out in the window.

Hand holding up a little tin with a 12 color watercolor palette inside. On the table are more tins, watercolor caps, printed labels, and more.

A bunch of in progress watercolor palettes in various states of assembly at the front counter.

Workin'.

The Winged Histories opens THIS SATURDAY!🪽 Click here for an update from Push/Pull!

It's Tuesday and your weekly newsletter is here! There's a TON of stuff happening this week and next, so read through and don't miss out! Plus: bunch of new zines and some other things recently arrived!

Washington, Primary Election Day is here!
✅ Our vendors voted
🗳 Now it’s your turn - be sure your voice is heard and drop your ballot at the closest ballot drop box by 8 PM!

#WAElections #CivicPower #RealChangeVotes

The Winged Histories opens THIS SATURDAY!🪽 Click here for an update from Push/Pull!

It's Tuesday and your weekly newsletter is here! There's a TON of stuff happening this week and next, so read through and don't miss out! Plus: bunch of new zines and some other things recently arrived!

Shelf labeled "18+ only" showing Quinn Amacher's "Wilder" and "Frolic #1" on display.

"Syncing" on display.

Hand holding open two (SFW) pages from "Syncing."

More 18+ titles to spice up your summer: check out these new arrivals from @qcomix.bsky.social, including Wilder, Syncing, and Frolic #1 ! There's a lot of variety in these adult works, too! Story with your sex?! What?!

Four panel comic of a brown haired woman. In the first three panels you see her picking colorful fall leaves. In the last panel you see her jacket pockets full of leaves and it says in cursive script “pockets full of leaves”

The page from Pockets Full of Leaves that inspired the title of the book. All about my adventures with plants. Coming this fall, of course.

Don't wait until tomorrow! Get your ballot in TODAY!!

Promo poster for The Winged Histories, art inspired by Sofia Samatar's poignant saga. Opening: August 9, 6-9 pm reception. Features black and white art of two women standing facing away from each other. A large castle is in the background. A crow flies over the woman on the left, a bat, over the woman on the right.

Our annual Book Club show opens this Saturday, featuring various works inspired by The Winged Histories by Sofia Samata. If you've read the book, come marvel at the cool art and connect pieces to the narrative! If you haven't, perhaps you'll be inspired to!

RSVP so you remember to come!

Promo graphic for Teen Acyrlic Painting Summer Camp, a 4-day crash course, August 4-7, 10am-1pm daily.

Promo graphic for Teen Watercolor & Mixed Media Summer Camp, August 11-15, 10am-1pm daily.

Promo graphic for Watercolor & Mixed Media Summer Camp for Adults, August 11-15, 2-5pm daily.

btw, Teen Acrylic Painting Camp has met minimums and the 4-day class starts TOMORROW (MONDAY)!

Meanwhile, the final two camps of the summer Teen Watercolor & Mixed Media Camp and the adult version of the same camp both need to meet minimums ASAP in order to run next week.

heyyyyy another reminder that I'll be giving this totally awesome course teaching you how to make a website!

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The Who Cares Era | dansinker.com

"As the culture of the Who Cares Era grinds towards the lowest common denominator, support those that are making real things."

Great short read by Dan Sinker: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...

Promo graphic for Teen Acyrlic Painting Summer Camp, a 4-day crash course, August 4-7, 10am-1pm daily.

Promo graphic for Teen Watercolor & Mixed Media Summer Camp, August 11-15, 10am-1pm daily.

Promo graphic for Watercolor & Mixed Media Summer Camp for Adults, August 11-15, 2-5pm daily.

btw, Teen Acrylic Painting Camp has met minimums and the 4-day class starts TOMORROW (MONDAY)!

Meanwhile, the final two camps of the summer Teen Watercolor & Mixed Media Camp and the adult version of the same camp both need to meet minimums ASAP in order to run next week.

Close up of sticker corner in store, focus on two yellow stickers with a trash can enamel pin between them. One sticker reads "ICE, insecure creepy enforcers" and the other reads "CBP, cowardly brutish paramilitary."

Shelf full of various varnish and mediums for oil painting, lookin' nice in the morning light.

Display of Pentel EnerGEL pens, 0.5mm and 0.7mm, $3.60 each, as described by the handwritten sign.

Photo of the sticker corner with lots of cool stickers, enamel pins, pinback buttons, etc.

Just some snapshots around the store. :)

The new CBP and ICE stickers are from Vertvolta Press. @vertvoltapress.bsky.social

Graphic listing classes come up August 4-10 at Push/Pull Seattle, including Teen Acrylic Painting, Reading Crochet Patterns, Intro to Procreate (3 spots left), Botanical Sketching, Risograph Design in Procreate, Intro to Calligraphy w Ink & Nib, and Botanical Printing Sampler. Sign up at http://pushpullseattle.com

Graphic listing free meetups and events August 4-10 by Bal-Art by Push/Pull, including Ballard Sketch Team, Stitch n Bitch, The Winged Histories art opening, and Riff Raff League.

August has begun! Make plans with us!

Framed painting of a yellow cat raising its paw against a blue background.

Three pieces of cat art hanging on a wall.

Most of the cats in the MORE CATS OF BALLARD show have found homes. These are what's left! Perhaps their home is with you? 👀

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a pallid dog with its back facing the viewer, its head obscured by a dark cloud. two eyes with night sight poke through the black mass. the dog appears like a ghost, green and a pallid against a non descript sickly green background.

you treat me like i am diseased

ink and watercolor, 4x4 inches 2025

Plein air oil painting of the intersection of Vine Street and Alaskan Way in Seattle Washington, view looking out over Elliot Bay past the Edgewater Hotel on the evening of July 29, 2025

Plein air at Vine & Alaskan Way on the Seattle waterfront 7/29/25

Watercolor painting/color study of Mount St Helens

Plein air painting of hummocks formed from Mount St Helens eruption

My first two plein air sketches as an artist in residence at Mount St. Helens Institute. Learning the geology and topology of the land and the different colors of the transformed volcanic landscape #mtsthelens #sthelens #art #sciart

Screenshot of the Discord implementation of "Face with Bags Under Eyes" from Emojipedia.

When is this emoji gonna finally be properly available everywhere. I want to use it all the time. emojipedia.org/face-with-ba...

Various containers of Tri-Art eco cold wax stacked on a shelf.

Bottles of Tri-Art "Art Noise" acrylic gouache on display.

Tri-Art acrylic tubes on display.

Tri-Art printing ink tubes in various colors on display.

Smol Tri-Art restock from earlier this week.

Further restocks are kinda up in the air because of tariffs, which we're really, really bummed about, but what can we do. 🫩

Promo graphic for Build a Website Like it's 1999, laid out like an Angelfire website circa 1999 with a repeating flame background, among other loud elements.

And if you're old enough for this book, you're ~might~ also be old enough to remember the year 1999. Experience the magic of your own handcrafted website again! Sign up for Build a Website Like it's 1999 with Kami! 🔥🔥🔥 these emoji can't capture the vibe of an very pixelated animated fire gif, alas.

Hand olding up a book featuring an older shirtless man sleeping and a small sticker pack featuring chibis. The sticker pack reads "Old Man Yaoi." The book says the same, though the "Old" is obscured by the sticker pack.

New spicy artbook n sticker pack from @kamidog.bsky.social is here featuring exactly what it says on the tin. Very 18+. 👀

Messy art table covered in watercolor supplies; at the front are various dots of color in samples/swatches. Two people are working on various swatches in mini sketchbooks.

Promo graphic for What ARE Colors? Color Theory for Artists, first Sundays, 1-3pm.

What even ARE colors and how do they work?? FIND OUT in our monthly Color Theory for Artists class this Sunday! This month's focus is watercolor, 'cause yes, colors work differently depending on the medium! Learn how! Learn why! As with most things, colors are weird. :V

Two small boxes perhaps for fountain pen inks, folded out of Risograph misprints, sitting on a paper template that folds into said boxes.

DIY everything with Riso discards. :3

Hand holding a ballot envelope, about to insert it into a ballot drop box.

btw don't forget to turn in your primary ballots by Tuesday! There's a drop box around the block from us at the Ballard Library, or you can check this map for other locations! 🗳️🗳️🗳️

Gouache painting of a green spiny sea slug of some sort on black paper I'm so sorry I will not be able to ID literally any of these!!

Several people at a messy art table with lots of printed reference of nudibranches, working on gouache paintings.

Gouache painting of a bluish nudibranch with bright orange spines on black paper, sitting on a table next to its printed photo reference.

Three people smiling at camera, each holding their own small painting of a colorful sea slug.

Stunning work from the weekend's Gouache Critters class featuring sea slugs!!! Everyone picked such great nud(ibranch)es!! 🪸

Plan ahead for August's class, which will feature crabs!!! 🦀 Because everything becomes crabs in the end.

There's still time to sign up for Draw Bugs! tonight too! Come tell us about your fav and least fav bugs!

August is nigh! What are your plans? 📅 Click here for an update from Push/Pull!

oh yeah! yesterday was Tuesday, which means our weekly newsletter went out! Catch up with the happenin's!