Push/Pull Seattle

Sheet of paper with various notes and large swatches of ink, which change in color as different dyes are added.

Gloved hand reaching for a jar of mica powder at a messy table full of jars and various other supplies.

Promo graphic for Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make featuring clip art of ink splotches. "Unleash your inner mad scientist with Push/Pull's ink wizard, Maxx FG. You'll learn how she makes fountain pen ink and you'll get to mix your own colors!

Whether you're an artist or a prolific journaler and notetaker, making your own ink is a great way to learn more about ink as a medium, chemistry (magic?), and how weird color is. Join us at Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make and concot FOUR bottles of your own ink! 🧪 www.simpletix.com/e/fountain-p... ✒️

Medusa character with a raygun and goggles. Text reads Art is the Consequence of Human Experience - science expeditionary force

Anyone can make art. Whether it’s “good” or “bad” is entirely subjective. But the ability to create is what makes us human. Art isn’t just images or words. Art is what happens when human. It’s a quintessentially human thing. No machine can make it for you. Just start drawing/writing/singing/etc.

Spin shelf full of journals, planners, and notebooks

Shelf full of screen printing ink in various colors

A 3 tier riser shelf full of various Mod Podge varieties.

Snapshot of zine corner including a spin rack full of mini zines.

It's nice outside AND inside. :)

If cost is a barrier, we are sometimes able to provide partial or full scholarships to classes. Just shoot us an email (info at pushpullseattle dot com) with what class you're interested in! 💖

Yes!! Well-behaved critters of all kinds are welcome (unless a customer lets us know they have an allergy)!!

The logo for Sea Slug Animation Festival on top of a purple-washed background of film stills. The text underneath reads "The Furious Edition Program."

A programmatic schedule for the film festival. The text reads: Friday, 2/27 7:00 PM– Opening Night: Rita + Endless Cookie 9:00 PM– Kick Off Party @ Solo Bar & Eatery (21+) Saturday, 2/28 12:00 PM– Shorts 1: Emotional Support Buddies 1:45 PM– Artist Alley @ SIFF Film Center 4:00 PM– Shorts 2: Big Bizarro 7:00 PM– Retrospective: Dédé (Ancestor) + Son of the White Mare Sunday, 3/1 12:00 PM– Shorts 3: Animation Altar 2:00 PM– Anim-Mixer @ Queen Anne Beer Hall 4:00 PM– Furious Finale: No Room + ???

💢 Proud to Present ~ The FURIOUS Edition 💢
🔸 The Seattle premiere of ENDLESS COOKIE with a pre-recorded intro from the filmmakers
🔸 The 4K restoration of SON OF THE WHITE MARE
🔸 A SECRET finale screening
🔸 Three shorts packages blocks featuring 30 animated shorts for adults + filmmaker Q&As

Weekend class statuses:

Zine Crash Course: Cancelled due to low registration 😔
Book Binding: Still sold out :3
Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make: 4 spots left!
Block Print Your Valentines: 3 spots left!
Riff Raff: come one come all!

4 photo composite of dogs visiting the store. Top to bottom, left to right: a black medium sized doodle, merle tricolor (aussie?) sheperd, medium-small merle tricolor shepherd mix with tongue sticking out!!!, brown-grey bully mix in a jacket!

More! Cute! Store! Visitors! Top to bottom, left to right: Rumi, Loki, Samosa (look at that blep????), and Athena! We keep a jar of treats at the desk from our neighbours at All The Best so come in for a treat. 😊

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Hand holding up the swatch card for Ferris Wheel Press's "Down the Don Valley" a medium green ink. A packaged box of the 38 mL ink is in front of the swatch card.

We're not restocking FWP for various reasons and this is the very last bottle of FWP ink we have... 👀 store.pushpullseattle.com/product/ferr... (there's no variant select on this listing 'cause everything else is sold out, so it's a bit confusing looking?)

This class only runs quarterly, so don't miss it! The next one isn't until MAY!! 😱

Sheet of paper with various notes and large swatches of ink, which change in color as different dyes are added.

Gloved hand reaching for a jar of mica powder at a messy table full of jars and various other supplies.

Promo graphic for Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make featuring clip art of ink splotches. "Unleash your inner mad scientist with Push/Pull's ink wizard, Maxx FG. You'll learn how she makes fountain pen ink and you'll get to mix your own colors!

Whether you're an artist or a prolific journaler and notetaker, making your own ink is a great way to learn more about ink as a medium, chemistry (magic?), and how weird color is. Join us at Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make and concot FOUR bottles of your own ink! 🧪 www.simpletix.com/e/fountain-p... ✒️

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@wawhistles.bsky.social has a map of drop off/pick up locations for whistles! google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?usp=sharing&mid=1XcOvKxvEjoTGoyIkvHrYp6b1oQom6y8

Two small paintings each featuring three hens and three chicks pecking at feed scattered on the ground. Under the paintings is a white scratch sheet and above it on a wooden table are seven Sticky Caps of various colors.

Some super cute chickens painted with some of our watercolor Sticky Caps! The artist, Jennifer D. P., received them as a gift and told us she loved them. 🥰

And the latest from Brett Hamil! store.pushpullseattle.com/shop/brett-h...

Get ya Vertvolta Press titles here! store.pushpullseattle.com/shop/vertvol...

The dirty comix business is getting harder and harder (not in a good way) with lots of censorship laws cropping up everywhere lately... but you can go old school and get these in person if you want! Ain't nobody gonna judge you and you can pay cash if u want.

Hand holding up three issues of Off Kilter Comics, each with harsh BW cover illustrations, against the background of the store.

Issues of Off Kilter among other titles in our 18+ section.

ADULTS ONLY!!

We've got three recent issues of OFF KILTER, Vancouver BC artist Tim Grant's ongoing taboo-breaking comix series, filled with sex, sleaze, and shenanigans.

Two dudes smiling at each other, each holding up a Riso-printed collage image.

It's Tuesday! Here's this week's newsletter for ya, and a super cute photo from a past Riso Collage class because Square won't stop auto-selecting bad photo choices for their link cards. :V

Literally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream

A white, brown, and tan tri-color shepherd dog of some variety standing up to put its paws on the front counter. One of their ears are erect and the other is floppy!!

A cutie named Remy visited yesterday along with their owner @/iamclopz on IG! Well-behaved dogs and other critters always welcome! 😊

Promo graphic for events this week (Feb 2-8) at Push/Pull, including Ballard Sketch Team, Stitch n' Bitch, After School Art for Kids, Intro to Procreate, Make a Zine Crash Course, Book Binding Workshop (sold out), Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make, Block Print Your Valentines, and Riff Raff League.

Posting normal things feels increasingly dissonate, but we can't let go of the things that make life worthwhile...come hang, be in community, learn smth new, revisit something long abandoned, make time for creativity+healing, as well as anger+action. Keep fighting the good fight. Keep making stuff.

7 teens in the front of the store, some holding "abolish ice" signs, some working on blank posterboard on the floor with a basket of supplies. All of their faces have been replaced with flame emojis.

Bunch of awesome teens came in for protest signs. 🔥 We only have a 2 hour window today (4-6pm) without a class/event occupying the tables in the back, but feel free to swing by whenever for posterboard, posters, and whistles~

What are some good, free single sheet printable zines you've seen available lately? Looking for more things to print and distro here.

Print rack filled with two sizes of posterboard in various colors with handwritten sign reading "free poster board (limit 1 per customer please)"

Side angle of print rack filled with posterboard.

Free posterboard~

Emails are out to all POETS who applied for Stanza! Still working on the artists!

Blowing the whistle on ICE: Seattle protesters support national movement Whistles have become a ubiquitous tool used by those protesting and observing immigration enforcement agents.

Story on @wawhistles.bsky.social on @king5seattle.bsky.social tonight featuring @katemacfarlane.bsky.social talking about how whistles can help people protect their neighborhoods from ICE thugs. Fun to help an enthusiastic crew of volunteers assemble 3100 packets!
www.king5.com/article/news...

Black graphic with red raised fist clipart. White title text reads "regarding the Jan 30 General Strike" followed by "we will be open" in red, then "(because we can't afford not to be) ty for understanding" in white and a smiling single tear emoji, then "classes & events happening as scheduled!" in red, and "between events, class area will have free posterboard and supplies for protest sign-making" in white, and finally, "<3 push/pull team" in red.

Box of whistle kits in plastic baggies. Each kit includes a 3d printed whistle and a zine explaining whistle usage and protocol.

Jar full of 3d printed whistles in various shapes and colors. Handwritten sign above reads "do you have a whistle? take one! help protect your neighbors. abolish ICE ♥"

Print rack full of 2-color Risograph prints reading "Abolish ICE" in pink and blue. Handwritten sign on rack reads "free 'abolish ICE' posters."

We'll be open tomorrow, but we encourage you to use cash if you'd like to stop by. <3

We have plenty of free whistles and posters! We'll also have free posterboard and supplies available for protest sign-making 10-noon and 4-6, when classes/events aren't happening.

Cardboard box under the front desk with handwritten label that says "free pen display"

Plastic wrapped full Micron pen display inside box.

If anyone wants a free pen display, we have another full Micron display we don't need....

(why does the distro think we need another one all the time.... what do they think happens to the one we already have every time???)

Tri-Art "Art Noise" acrylic gouache display.

Tri-Art acrylic tube display with handwritten sign reading "50% off clearance."

Tri-Art is on 50% clearance now, in-store only. These are awesome paints we were rrally excited to carry, but we won't be restocking them for the foreseeable future because tariffs and would like to reclaim the space for other products. 🙏