Another week FULL of opportunities to MAKE ART! Unfortunately, Botanical Sketching has been canceled due to low registration. Sign up early for future sessions so they avoid the same fate!!
You can still start the week strong with some chill social times hanging with Part-Time Poets and/or Ballard Sketch Team! This month's Drawing Techniques will focus on drawing from reference! Inking with Brush is on Thursdays now?? Here's your second chance at Paper Marbling if you missed the first one! Plus, Watercolor Pet Portraits, Visual Poetry, and a Gouche Critters featuring butterflies and moths!! 🦋🦋🦋
We have tons of original art in the store! They cover every wall and many corners and crevices too! From big paintings to delicate ink drawings to little needle felted friends, there's a huge variety of things to love!
For one week and in-store only, get 15% OFF your purchase of original artwork (non-reproductions), excluding those in our current show, Bits & Pieces. Ends May 19th!
𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁! Come make some wiiiild papers with us at 𝗣𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴! Great if you love book binding, scrapbooking, or just want some cool paper to make prints on. :O Coming up Saturday, May 16 at noon, and Friday, May 22 at 4pm! Space per class is limited because this takes a lot of room! Don't miss out!!
New store-made mini sketch journals are in, featuring screen printed covers designed by @friendsofmaxx ! Yes, these screens were all made at various past DIY Screen Printing classes! Sign up for the next one to make a mini screen and use it to print on all kinds of things, just like this! These sketchbooks feature 24 sheets of lightweight paper, perfect for a lil project or monthly challenge-type thing!
It's come around again! This month's Gouache Critters with @beccaquibbles will feature butterflies and moths! Come spend some time practicing with this amazing medium while nerding out and/or learning more about these beautiful insects! Join us Sunday, May 24, for a good time! 🦋🦋🦋
New @octopusfluids shimmer and sheening inks are in! Check out this beautiful selection of colors, along with a restock of @tomsstudio Wrens and their new Lumos Pro Duo Tip in "Splash Appletini" -- a lovely bright green with pink! 🍏🩷
Did you know? Most of our members walk, take transit, or bike to work? Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 13, is Bike Everywhere Day, and there will be celebration stations around the city with free coffee, treats, goodies, and giveaways for bike commuters! It's a great day to give biking to work or biking for transportation a try and to learn more about local organisations and advocacy groups that support cycling.
We've contributed some gift cards to giveaways by @cascadebicycle and @bfgreenstreets , so be sure to stop by their stations at the Fremont Bridge and Gilman Playground & @urbanfamilybrewing for a chance to win!
And of course, every day is a good day to bike to the store! We've got a bike rack right out front and accept @bicyclebenefits ! 🚲🚲🚲
Back in stock, but for how long??? Super popular RENDR no-bleed sketchbooks!! (We tried really hard to make marker bleed on these and consistently failed...) M. GRAHM gouache tubes! And GELLLYYYYYY ROLLLLLLLLLL supremacy! White pens! Metallics!! Yes, the cubby display doesn't match the stock, shhhhh don't worry about it. The pens are labeled on themselves!! :)
Scenes from the most recent Botanical Watercolors class! This time we painted some gorgeous anemone flowers! White and pale colors are one of the hardest paint, but we got it! What will we paint next time? Sign up and find out!
Love botanicals and can't get enough? Join us every Monday at Ballard Locks for Botanical Sketching too! Full class schedule on our site as always!
Recent new sticker arrivals from @curlworks_ , a trans-and-queer owned Minneapolis-based indie artist duo specializing in playful product design! Love how bright and colorful these are! 😊
It's a jam-packed week ahead!! There are so many different kinds of art you can make... join us for an always-satisfying shrinky dink night or come paint in acrylics or watercolors! Come paint landscapes and/or cats! Acrylic Painting Cats has moved to THURSDAYS but Dramatic Acrylic Landscapes is only on Wednesday this one time!
Learn how to marble paper, or why everyone loves alcohol markers so much! Meet your neighbors at Riff Raff League and plot ways to better the world! Full schedule and sign-up on our site as always!!
