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Push/Pull Seattle

@pushpullseattle.bsky.social

Push/Pull is hard to describe but easy to love. We're an art, comix, zine & supply store, learning center, print shop, and so much more. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! Visit us at 2000 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, or online at pushpullseattle.com 🎨🌈😺

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2h ago

Coupla snaps from last week's combo Riso Notebooks class combining Risograph printing and bookbinding! Missed it? Want more dual-crafting? RJ is back TOMORROW, August 6, with Gel Plate Notebooks, another combo printmaking+bookbinding class!! www.simpletix.com/e/gel-plate-...

Bearded person holding open a journal-in-progress. 2 color Riso-printed covers featuring a diver and sharks are visible on the table.

Person with glasses and a hat preparing to bind several bundles of paper. Folded 2-color Riso covers featuring a Steller's jay are also visible.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 12h ago

Some sneak peeks at some pieces that will be in the POSTED show opening this Saturday!

Crop of a floral piece with gold edges and details.

Crop of a cat and flowers in bold colors and shapes.

Push/Pull Seattle@pushpullseattle.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy Tuesday! Here's your weekly newsletter! Also, you should come to the opening reception of POSTED, this Saturday! Stamp shaped wood panels! What did artists put on them?

Promo graphic for "Posted" a gallery show featuring art on stamp-shaped wood panels by members and friends of Push/Pull. Opening reception, August 8, 6-9pm. Graphic features a snarling black canine in a stamp with a red border and stock photo of a blue mailbox.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · yesterday

This includes full Mattehop and mechanical pencil refill restocks, PLUS lots of Pentel pocket brushes and EnerGel pens in NEW fun colors~ 🌈

Gel pen corner including full Pentel Mattehop display and a full Sakura Gelly Roll display, some sets of Gelly Roll, and lots of Pentel pocket brushes also.

Close-up on full Pentel Mattehop display.

Full display of Pentel EnerGel pens in variou scolors and sizes.

Full display of Pentel Hi-Polymer mechanical pencil refills in various sizes and hardnesses.

Push/Pull Seattle@pushpullseattle.bsky.social · yesterday

@___@ (Pentel restock!!!!!)

Big pile of various Pentel products at the front desk including lots of pocket brushes, boxes of Mattehop and Sparklepop pens.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · yesterday

Happy Tuesday! Here's your weekly newsletter! Also, you should come to the opening reception of POSTED, this Saturday! Stamp shaped wood panels! What did artists put on them?

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · yesterday

Don't forget to get your primary ballots in a drop box by 8pm today!! It's too late to mail them! There's a drop box at the Ballard library branch a block from us! 🗳️🗳️🗳️ Other drop box locations: kingcounty.gov/en/dept/elec...

Ballot drop boxes - King County, Washington

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · yesterday

@___@ (Pentel restock!!!!!)

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jam-packed week coming up!! We've got TWO new classes and FOUR total free events!! www.pushpullseattle.com/classes.html

Pink and purple graphic listing classes and events this week (August 3-9) at Push/Pull, including Drawing Techniques, Creative Visible Mending, Teen Zine Summer Camp, Ballard Sketch Team (at Hattie's Hat), Stitch n' Bitch, Gel Plate Notebooks, Sights from Seattle, Riso Design in Procreate, Openig reception: Posted, Gouache Landscapes, and Riff Raff League.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 3d ago

Jam-packed week coming up!! We've got TWO new classes and FOUR total free events!! www.pushpullseattle.com/classes.html

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's still time to make plans for TODAY's Color Theory for Artists, which will be covering watercolors! Class starts at 1pm -- see you there! www.simpletix.com/e/what-are-c...

A hand holding up a brush at a messy art table, with a palette of primaries in front of them and two sheets of watercolor paper with blending exercises.

Sea Slug Animation Festival @seasluganimation.bsky.social · 4d ago

In 2025, we planted the seeds. In 2026, we watered our tender shoots. Now our wee buds are bloomin’ wild and they WON’T be contained! Join us for the Bloomin' Edition of Sea Slug Animation Festival on Feb. 26-28, 2027! Stay soft. Grow wild!

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · last wk.

The deadline to submit is THIS SATURDAY!

Push/Pull Seattle@pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 3w ago

Have you ever made a cool artistic mask? Submit to HIDE & SEEK, our October group show! 🎭 Half masks or full masks for an exquisite Halloween party, for scaring your neighbours, for plays, dramas, indie films n' more -- show us what you've got! form.jotform.com/261644848126...

Promo graphic featuring a photo of a red bird mask against a red fabric background. Text overlayed reads, "Push/Pull presents, Hide & Seek, call for art, artistic wearable masks, apply by August 1, responses by August 5, artwork due October 8, show opens October 10.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 5d ago

Gelly Roll and oil pastel restock!

A full display of various Gelly Roll gel pens, plus two additional cups of white and a light teal Gelly Roll.

Multiple sets of Cray-pas Expressionist and Specialist oil pastels on display.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 6d ago

Coupla Jimothies popping up at the store... new print by Kiriska and coloring cards by @mxmorgan.com 🦝 even if the rest of the world moves on, this lil guy is our Ballard neighbour and we love them. 🥰

Print of local legend Jimothy the short-spined racooon in a cedar tree with the moon behind them.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · last wk.

Have yall been in yet to see giant Waffle House and other paintings yet?? Every southern escapee has at least one thing they miss...

Two paintings above the Trekell brush displays, one of which features a dramatic cloudy sunset over a dark Waffle House.

Framed painting of a multi-eyed angel person with an empty plate at a table.

Wall of acrylic paintings featuring bright colors, strange people, creatures, and more.

Push/Pull Seattle@pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 4w ago

Opening TONIGHT! www.simpletix.com/e/opening-re...

Promo graphic for Strange Girls Club, weathering a painting of three girls with eyes in their hair and a multi-eyed alien monster. An exhibition of illustrative paintings by Summer Clarke, opening July 11.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · last wk.

Unexpected lil spotlight neesh.art 's newsletter this month. :O

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · last wk.

Happy newsletter day, it's a really long one!! squaremktg.com/campaigns/L3...

Just THREE Teen Summer Camps left this year! ☀️

Click here for an update from Push/Pull!

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · last wk.

Happy newsletter day, it's a really long one!! squaremktg.com/campaigns/L3...

Just THREE Teen Summer Camps left this year! ☀️

Click here for an update from Push/Pull!

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · last wk.

The deadline to submit is THIS SATURDAY!

Push/Pull Seattle@pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 3w ago

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · last wk.

Some of the block prints from the Teen Printmaking Summer Camp! There are just three more summer camps left in the season, so make plans soon if you don't want to wait until NEXT summer?!?! www.pushpullseattle.com/teen-art.htm...

Multiple block prints of hands with bones outlined in red on various colored papers, scattered across a messy art table.

Multiple block prints of a coyote with a snake in its mouth and the text "I tread where I please", printed in yellow on various colored papers, scattered across a messy art table.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2w ago

The week is NIGH. Get on stuff! www.pushpullseattle.com/classes.html

Graphic for class and events this week (July 27-August 2) at Push/Pull, including Nature Journaling Camp, Fresh Look: Peer Critique (free), Block Printing Workshop (sold out), QU-ART: Queer Artists Meetup (free), Zine Crash Course, Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make, Book Binding Workshop (1 spot left), Color Theory for Artists.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Come enjoy the sunshine with us next week at Ballard Locks exploring, sketching, and learning about plants, bugs, critters, and other aspects of the world around us! This series is ALL AGES, so come join us! www.simpletix.com/e/all-ages-n...

Two teens sitting on a stone bench drawing plants. Their faces are covered with sunglasses smiley emoji.

Three teens sitting on a picnic blanket overlooking the Ballard Locks with art supplies spread around them, all sketching. Their faces are covered with sunglasses smiley emoji.

Promo graphic for Nature Journaling Summer Camp, July 27-30, 11-2 pm daily, all ages welcome. Features photos of plants and bugs alongside drawings of them.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2w ago

The week is NIGH. Get on stuff! www.pushpullseattle.com/classes.html

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2w ago

We were at Urban Craft Uprising today! We'll be at Urban Craft Uprising tomorrow! Come by and try some handmade paints n inks!

Display of several watercolor tins with different half pan palettes inside.

Five bins of fountain pens filled with our handmade inks for testing.

Push/Pull table at Urban Craft Uprising.

Other side of thr table has a large A-sign with individual watercolor paints in bottle caps along with a framed drawing of Jimothy the raccoon.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pamphlet-stitched Notebooks on Riso is THIS FRIDAY! Get on it! :D www.simpletix.com/e/pamphlet-s...

Pamphlet-Stitched Notebooks on Risograph Tickets | Push/Pull

You’ll never buy another notebook again once you can make your own in this bookbinding and Risograph class!

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Push/Pull Seattle@pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New graphics for new classes with @carapacestudios.bsky.social ! Spreading the Book Binding love around and combining them with other things too... good 2-for-1 explorations! www.pushpullseattle.com/classes.html

Promo graphic for Pamphlet-stitched Notebooks on Risograph. In this simple bookbinding and Risograph class, you'll design two-color Risograph notebook covers, then stitch them together with a simple pamphlet stitch. Choose from blank interior pages, dot or grid pattern, or bring your own! Graphic includes clip art of a printer and a book being stitch-bound, along with a photo of a hand holding up a small notebook with a Riso-printed cover.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Follow a different kind of odyssey in BITCHY!, a massive 500+ page tome collecting Roberta Gregory's "Bitchy Bitch" stories, presenting a life from childhood into middle age, following the character through multiple decades... store.pushpullseattle.com/product/bitc...