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Push/Pull Seattle

@pushpullseattle.bsky.social

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Push/Pull is hard to describe but easy to love. We're an art, comix, zine & supply store, learning center, studio space, 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 · 3d

Short class list this week! Does that make decision making easier? Browse the class schedule! This week is the debut of Intro to Colored Pencils and don't forget that Make Your Own Watercolors only happens every other month, so don't miss it!

Promo graphic for classes happening this week (October 6-12) at Push/Pull, including Watercolor for Everyone, Make Your Own Watercolors, Risograph on Procreate, Make Your Own "Lafufu" (sold out), Botanical Printing Sampler, and Intro to Colored Pencil Illustration. Schedule is in fall colors and features clip art of a cat in a pumpkin and fall leaves.

Promo graphic for free meetups this week (October 6-12) including Ballard Sketch Team and Riff Raff League. Features clip are of a cat scribbling in a sketchbook and another cat holding up a letter.

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 10h

We have so many more furries than they do!!

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 16h

Also! There are just TWO SPOTS LEFT in Botanical Printing with @carapacestudios.bsky.social, also this Sunday! It's always a great time, but there's so much material to use in the fall, so it's EXTRA great!

Three people at a messy art table making botanical prints.

Promo graphic for Botanical Printing Sampler with RJ Jordan, 2nd Sundays, 11-2. Features an illustration that utilises botanical printing of flowers.

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 16h

Intro to Colored Pencil Illustration debuts this Sunday! We've gotten asked for colored pencil classes a few times, so here it is!

Promo graphic for Intro to Colored Pencil Illustration featuring a colored pencil drawing of an echidna and cactus.

Several drawings of different dinosaurs in colored pencil.

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Don't think that guy is Predator, but there IS a Predator in the window somewhere...

Whiteboard in the window. Written at the top is "Predator says:" then a drawing of a Simpsons character this uncultured alt text writer cannot identify with a speech bubble that says, "Good lord what is happening at Push/Pull?!" and next to it, big writing in multiple colors that says "NEW!! Northern Lights fountain pen inks!!" and under it "also hey ask about our classes!"

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 1d

frfr no matter what color it is, every cap is somehow a forbidden food.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 1d

No sneak peeks yet for October's inks, so here's another shot of September's. Sign up for a box by the 15th to get the mysterious new colors brewing in the back room!

Different angle photo of the same display shelf with the 6 Northern Lights fountain pen inks.

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 1d

Another sneaky peaky... this one is so gorgeous, wtf!! (I'm allowed to say this bc I, Marketing Person, am not the Watercolor Wizard!!)

Swatch of a super awesome bronzey gradiated sea blue laying on top of a pile of dark bronze looking Sticky Caps!!

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Grand Illusion Cinema @grandillusioncinema.org · 4d

We have t-shirts for sale! @sethbeastmeat.bsky.social (w/ assist from Phill Tuma) created this unholy union of projector & projectionist for us & we couldn’t be happier. $25

We'll definitely have them at NWFF. SIFF & Here-After just depends on logistics (we’re all volunteers after all).

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2d

"Tuesday" is also the Agathatober prompt for the day! This is what the Tuesday watercolor cap looks like. Agree?? Disagree?? What color is Tuesday to you?? What does Tuesday look like????

Bright red watercolor Sticky Cap with red sparkly mica, photographed alongside its swatch against a white background.

Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2d

It's Tuesday AGAIN! Get ya Tuesday newsletter!

Have you picked up an October calendar yet? 🎃

Click here for an update from Push/Pull!

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2d

Thursday is another opportunity to come learn how we make our handmade watercolors, at Make Your Own Watercolors! Get access to our big stash of pro-grade pigments and decide what colors you want to make!

Promo graphic for Make Your Own Watercolors, alternating Second Thursdays, 6-8 pm. Features two photos of gloved hands mixing watercolors and one photo of a variety of finished watercolor Sticky Caps.

Pile of beautiful teal watercolor Sticky Caps. (This is our "Ducky" color.)

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2d

The Northern Lights fountain pen inks from September's mystery boxes are on the shelves now btw! Wonder what the October inks will be? 🤔

Six fountain pen inks based on northern lights in our display of store-made inks. Colors include a pale pink (Aurora), a bright reddish orange (Troposphere), a medium purple (Afterglow), a medium blue (Borealis), an emerald green (Galileo), and a yellowish green (Gassendi).

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 2d

Sneak peak at what's coming in the October mystery boxes... sign up by the 15th if you want one!

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Savannah @pnwpotato.bsky.social · 3d

"Yellow Flowers Make Me Cry"

Mixed media/collage on paper.

(Wish I had a better way to scan or photograph art but this will have to do for now.)

#art #collage #mixedmedia

Artwork on paper, using painted and colored paper scraps. Two closed eyes sit at the top of the artwork, with each eye crying three tear drops down. The teardrops fall down on yellow dandelion-like flowers at the bottom.

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

And while you're at the tester table, flip through some of the books and see some of the cute stuff other testers have painted! :3c

Stack of papers at the testing table; the one at the top shows a rainbow with five hearts below it in various colors. This might have been a test of our Pride set of watercolors?

A painting of a grey mammal creature. Text above it is painted in 3-4 colors in cursive and probably reads "Charley"?? but it's a bit hard to tell!!!

A drawing of three clothed stick figures, each in different colors; the middle figure has a heart over their head. Below the figures reads "teamwork" in all caps.

Angled shot of our tester table with a variety of watercolor and gouache Sticky Caps and notebooks with tests!

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

Paint Bugs!! This new 4pc watercolor set debuted in the September mystery boxes and was made in collaboration with @carapacestudios.bsky.social , local bug enthusiast and Draw Bugs! instructor and zinester!! Come test this new set at the tester table! 🪲🦋🎨

Four watercolor Sticky Caps affixed to a piece of cardboard cut into the shape of leaves and labeled "it's a paint bug's life!" Each individual cap is also labeled: a shiny green ("Beetle"), a medium yellow ("Yellow Jacket"), a bright orange-red ("Assassin"), and a medium blue ("Blue Morpho"). Another piece of cardboard is cut into the shape of a beetle and painted green using the various watercolors shown.

A packaged set of "Paint Bugs!" watercolors. The package label includes drawings of the four insects that inspired the colors, each one swatched accordingly.

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

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kris ! @centipedekris.bsky.social · 4d

SAD city zine fest vendor applications are open for those around the Seattle area who make zines! :) feel free to DM me any questions docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

a centipede zines event
SAD CITY ZINE FEST (stylized as a person's tears)
Woodland Theater Dec 6, 11am to 4pm

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

Mini Worlds only runs quarterly, so don't miss your chance to join us tonight to make a cool diorama!! All supplies are provided!

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

What will you put into your tiny world? Join us SATURDAY evening for Crafting Mini Worlds and bring to life a miniature place you can escape to...

Promo graphic for Crafting Mini Worlds with Cloche Dioramas featuring a mushroom diorama inside a glass cloche. Quarterly First Saturdays, 5-8 PM.

In progress diorama featuring fall foliage.

Two hands holding a diorama inside a class cloche featuring fall foliage and a person on a swing.

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

Some recently restocked things! Tracing paper in pads AND rolls! Maxxliner alcohol markers! Various drafting supplies like lead holders and rulers!

Tracing paper pads in three sizes on display.

Alcohol marker display including Maxxliners, Copic Ciao, and bottled alcohol inks.

A corner of drafting/architectural supplies, including lead holders, glue sticks, and specialty tape.

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

btw, we have some extremely nice Caran d'Ache sets now... 👀

Pile of Caran d'Ache sets of pencils, paint, markers, etc, at the front counter.

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

What will you put into your tiny world? Join us SATURDAY evening for Crafting Mini Worlds and bring to life a miniature place you can escape to...

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Push/Pull Seattle @pushpullseattle.bsky.social · 7d

Our new After School Kids program starts this coming Monday!

Like the Teen program, it's FREE/PWYW and comprises multi-class series focused on specific topics. Kids are welcome to join for multiple topics!

Promo graphic for After School Art for Kids, Mondays, 3-5:30 pm.

Three kids drawing at a table along with their instructor, a young adult.

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

Class is in 20 mins if you're in the area... ;)

RJ | Carapace Illustration @carapacestudios.bsky.social · 6d

Bone-ing up on skulls for today's class @pushpullseattle.bsky.social ! Two spots left: www.simpletix.com/e/draw-skull...

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Seth Beastmeat @sethbeastmeat.bsky.social · 7d

Another Thursday morning labeling house made #fountanpenink @pushpullseattle.bsky.social

#writing #pens #lettering #calligraphy #fountainpens #ink

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