FREE After School Art for Kids starts next week! 🖍️

Agathatober 2025!

October is TOMORROW!

We thought it'd be fun to out together a casual art prompt list again, so here's to Agathatober, named after our weird baby mascot!

All of the prompts are named after colors we've made as watercolor, gouache, or ink, but you don't have to use those colors in your work. Interpret as you'd like!

We hope these prompts/colors are inspiring! Show us what you make!

Monthly Mystery Box

Another new watercolor set hits the floor! This 4-color Paint Bugs! set debuted in September's Paint and Deluxe Boxes!

What's cooking for October? Be the first to find out by signing up for a mystery box! You can get a subscription or just a one-off box!

Sign up by October 15th to get that October box! 🎁

Working digitally doesn't need to be lonely. Get started and explore all that Procreate has to offer at Intro to Procreate! It makes such a difference to be able to have people around you to help and to learn with you!

Wednesday, October 1, 6:00 PM: Grab your needles and fibers and come hang out at Stitch n' Bitch, our free monthly fiber arts meetup! Get some knitting or crocheting done, make progress on that embroidery project, or get started on something new! 🧵 FREE MEETUP.

Thursday, October 2, 5:00 PM: Procreate is the most powerful art-making tool on iPad, but it can be intimidating to get started! Intro to Procreate is the in-person infodump that will give you everything you need, plus hands on guidance you can't replicate with a YouTube tutorial! 👐

Friday, October 3, 5:30 PM: Skulls are the foundation of many forms, and they're intrinsically spooky to boot! Join us at Draw Skulls! to draw from real skulls of various sorts, learn about different parts of skull anatomy, and more! 💀 TWO SPOTS LEFT!

Saturday, October 4, 10:00 AM: This month's Zine Crash Course will focus on comics! Not all comics are zines, and not all zines are comics, but the middle Venn diagram slice is pretty big! Explore storytelling via comics and learn how your topic might benefit from comics as a format in your next zine! 📖

Saturday, October 4, 1:00 PM: October's Book Binding Workshop is SOLD OUT and November's has ONE SPOTS LEFT. (And December's class has TWO spots left!) You really gotta plan ahead for this class! 📚

Saturday, October 4, 5:00 PM: Create an environment for some lil guys when you Craft a Mini World With Cloche Dioramas! Learn diorama basics, make use of a variety of materials, and see a world come to life! 🌲

Sunday, October 5, 10:00 PM: Love the handlettered look, but not the hand cramps? Turn your handwriting into a digital font at Make Fonts in Procreate! 🔠

Sunday, October 5, 1:00 PM: This month's Color Theory for Artists will focus on acrylic paints! What makes up the color in acrylics? How do they mix together? How DON'T they mix together? Chemistry and art come together in this practical class! 🔴🔵🟡

Sunday, October 5, 4:00 PM: It's SPIDERS this month at Gouache Critters! Everyone's (least?) favourite fall nemesis! Appease the spiders by painting one, and maybe they will get out of your house and stop spinning webs directly outside your front door? No guarantees, but maybe it will work!! 🕷️

Sunday, October 7:15 PM: The news doesn't stop coming, so neither do we. Join us at Riff Raff League to process the politics together and to channel some collective energy into ways we can resist and make a difference. ✊ FREE MEETUP.

Kuretake Gansai Tambi

New/restocked! Kuretake's Gansai Tambi Japanese watercolors are back--as single palettes that you can mix and match when you put together your own set!

Get refills for an existing set, or swap in a new color to try! So many options, colors, and possibilities! The choice is yours!! 😎

Octopus Fluids

Restocked! Beautiful fountain pen and writing inks from Octopus Fluids are back!

Since these are from Germany, they got hit with a big ol' tariff bill on arrival, so unfortunately, prices have increased. HOWEVER, older items from earlier this year are still at old prices. We're only increasing prices on as we pay increased prices!

Fountain & dip pen bonanza

New & restocked! Sailor Hocoro dip pens are back! Deleter black inks! Various Platinum pens, refills, and inks are restocked!

On the fancy-gifty-treat-yo'self end, we've got beautiful new Benu Pixie pocket fountain pens, and don't forget all the Tom's Studio pens that arrived last week! ✒️

LOTS OF OTHER MISCELLANY

Restocked! A LOT of other stuff came in in the last week! Mechanical pencils, woodcase pencil sets, Faber-Castell Polychromos individual colored pencils!

Various things from Mont Marte and Pro Art are in, the latter of which includes lots of sketchbooks and watercolor pads! Canvas!

Come in and see what's on the shelves!

Push/Pull Halloween watercolors

By the way... our Halloween limited edition watercolor set is already SOLD OUT. There are still individual caps available in all colors, but everything we made is out on the floor already. There is no more backstock!

These colors may or may not return in subsequent spooky seasons, but if you want them this year, come get your caps soon!

Learn how to make your own watercolor paints! Choose from all of our available pigments and see what colors they turn into at Make Your Own Watercolors! ✨

Monday, October 6, 3:30 PM: It's the debut of After School Art for KIDS! To start things off is a 4-class series called Beyond the Self-Portrait Session, where kids can learn to explore self-expression beyond self portraits by using different materials to create more abstract representations of self! 🎭

Tuesday, October 7, 6:00 PM: Our twice-monthly Ballard Sketch Team meets at Hattie's Hat! Join us for an evening of good eats, bad jokes, and getting some reliable ol' sketchbook time in. 🍻 FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, October 8, 6:00 PM: This month's Watercolor for Everyone will explore combining colored pencils with watercolor for some beautiful, illustrative effects. 🖼️

Thursday, October 9, 6:00 PM: It's another rare opportunity to Make Your Own Watercolors! Choose from our stock of professional grade pigments and see what colors arise on your mixing plate! Create up to 3 of your very own limited edition Sticky Caps! 🧤

Saturday, October 11, 10:00 AM: What's all the rage about Risograph? What are its strengths and limitations? What kinds of images look best when printed on Riso, and most important of all, how do you set up those files? Learn how to do it all right from your iPad, at Risograph for Procreate! 🖨️

Saturday, October 11, 1:00 PM: Make Your Own Cursed "Lafufu" is SOLD OUT for October, but we'll have another one in December. Plan ahead to make the best/worse present for you and/or your bestie or frenemy. :) Maybe snag them a ticket to take the class with you! 🧸

Sunday, October 12, 11:00 AM: You can use nature in your art! Learn several ways how at Botanical Printing Sampler! It's not cheating to use what's around you, whether that's mere inspiration or literally incorporating pieces of it into your work -- don't limit yourself! Learn new ways to create art gives you endless flexibility and ensures you're never bored or run out of ideas! 🌿

Sunday, October 12, 3:00 PM: NEW CLASS! Learn color and pressure techniques to create dazzling still lifes, animal portraits, and cartoon characters and more at Intro to Colored Pencil Illustration! We'll talk about shading, value, and how to apply these fundamentals alongside color theory. Achieve a variation of texture, tone, and color by learning blending and burnishing techniques! ✏️

Sunday, October 12, 7:15 PM: There are so many disasters every week but many get buried in the news cycle. What's happening locally? How can you affect or inspire change? What's most important to you in this moment? Share your thoughts, listen to others, and form plans of action at Riff Raff League! ✊FREE MEETUP.