Shop small & local this and every season! 🥰

When you support local businesses, you're supporting people who live in your community! You're supporting eight raccoons in a trenchcoat slinging art supplies n' making art, along with dozens of other artists and small businesses, many of whom are also local!

Big businesses can afford to give bigger discounts, but we can afford to give personalized attention and recommendations, information about the local art scene, and more!

Learn more about small businesses in the Seattle area you can support at Intentionalist and take care of your shopping list locally, this season and every season. 🥰

Harvest Food Drive

We're participating in Ballard's Harvest Food Drive again this year! Things have been extra rough for many of our neighbours lately, and every little thing helps!

Donate or volunteer at the Ballard Food Bank directly if you're able, or bring requested items (there's a list at the bottom here) to us at the store and we'll drop them off for you!

25% OFF Tri-Art acrylics & Gamblin 1980 oils

Due to tariffs, we're unfortunately not going to be restocking Tri-Art for the time being. :(

For Gamblin, we'll be replacing the 1980 line (student grade) with the full line of pro grade artist colors.

Enjoy 25% OFF Tri-Art acrylics and Gamblin 1980 oils until they're gone!

In-store only!

Even working from the same reference, everyone's vision and work is unique! Join us this weekend for Majestic Oil Landscapes, a beginner-friendly crash course in oils! How will you paint your landscape?

Wednesday, November 26, 6:00 PM: Come paint some stunning skies at this month's Watercolor Landscapes! Practice wet-into-wet techniques to create distinct and beautiful clouds, and create gorgeous gradients to make a subtle, realistic effect. ☁️

Friday, November 28, NOON: This month's Block Printing Workshop is SOLD OUT! A nice surprise after the last few have been canceled due to low registration. :o We don't technically have a regular December workshop, but we'll have Block Print Your Own Holiday Cards! (And no one will care if you don't actually want to make a card! :P) You can also go ahead and sign up for January's regular workshop if you want! 💌

Friday, November 28, 6:00 PM: Come to our end-of-month QU-ART and chill out with fellow queer artists! Bring a project or start a new one, and catch up with what everyone else is up to! 🌈 FREE MEETUP.

Saturday, November 29, 10:30 PM: Mushrooms make great painting subjects: they're diverse, colorful, pleasingly shaped, and a perfect way to practice using gouache! Join us for our Paint a Gouache-shroom class for a bit of mushroom nerdery and paint exploration! 🍄

Saturday, November 29, 2:30 PM: Make a design once and print it multiple times on a variety of things with DIY Screen Printing! Learn about the process in a low-stakes and supportive environment, using a small screen specially made for this class! 🪟

Sunday, November 30, 11:30 AM: Learn something new while knocking something off your to-do list! Learn how to design for Risograph printing and get some holiday cards done at the same time at Holiday Cards on Risograph! The season is upon us, but it can be fun! Promise! 🖨️ THREE SPOTS LEFT.

Sunday, November 30, 3:00 PM: Another great two-for-one option is Majestic Oil Landscapes, a great introductory oil painting class where you just might paint something you can gift! 🌄 FOUR SPOTS LEFT.

Sunday, November 30, 7:15 PM: Hold onto hope, get involved, and figure out what you can do about the issues you care about at our weekly Riff Raff League meeting! 🔥 FREE MEETUP.

PENTEL

Restocked! SEVEN boxes from Pentel arrived and we've got FULL RESTOCKS of Sparklepop and Mattehop gel pens, Pointliners fine liners, EnerGel, Hybrid Technica, and Slicci pens, and black sign pens... PLUS! Graphgear 500, 300, and mechanical pencil refills! Phew!!!

Blank Risograph cards

Restocked! A bunch of our Risograph greeting cards are back and available as single cards, instead of sets!

Just need a quick, kinda weird lil card to send? We got you!

Want to make your own Risograph greeting card? We've got a class this weekend for just that!!

Push/Pull watercolors and gouache

Restocked! Another color coming back from the dead is Witching Hour! If you missed it the first time, be sure to check out this beautiful midnight blue with sparkling silver mica!

Also see: Casbah, Fen, and Nightshade (vegan)!

We'll have a certain holiday gouache set back on the shelves soon too, so keep an eye out! 👀👀👀

The holidays can be hectic and stressful, but carving blocks for printing is a thoughtful, meditative process... slow down a little and Block Print Your Own Holiday Cards. Learn a new skill or improve on your existing practice, and strike something from your to-do list while you're at it. ✨

Tuesday, December 2, 6:00 PM: Ballard Sketch Team arrives again! Join us at Hattie's Hat! Bring your sketchbook, order a dinner, and settle in for a chill evening of casual arting and just hanging out!! 🍔 FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, December 3, 6:00 PM: Dust off your yarn, wool, thread, and other materials! Find camaraderie and maybe vent a lil about your hectic holiday season at Stitch n' Bitch! Maybe you'll get some progress in on that project while you're here too! 🧶FREE MEETUP.

Thursday, December 4, 5:00 PM: It's always a good time to learn something new! Got an iPad but haven't really given digital art a go? Intimidated by the massively powerful program that is Procreate? Intro to Procreate is for you! 📱

Friday, December 5, 4:00 PM: Come Block Print Your Own Holiday Cards and get them in the mail before all those pesky postal deadlines! Send friends and family a unique card with a handmade touch without drawing dozens of individual cards! Printing progresses! What a cheat! :D 💌

Saturday, December 6, 10:00 AM: This month's Zine Crash Course will focus on collage zines! Tear into our extensive used magazine collection to cut and paste your way to success. Collage is a wonderful way to use your imagination while starting with some images--so you don't have to come up with them all by yourself! ✂️

Saturday, December 6, 1:00 PM: Yes, it's true, Book Binding is SOLD OUT for December and there are just THREE SPOTS LEFT for January! We're working to get February and beyond on the schedule, so hang tight for those! 📚

Saturday, December 6, 5:00 PM: Create your own mini diorama at Crafting Mini Worlds! Fill it with abstract wonders or a lovely environment for a little inanimate buddy! Explore different materials and props available and imagine a new world! 🍄

Sunday, December 7, 1:00 PM: Color Theory for Artists will be covering dry media (such as pencils and pastels) this month! Blending and putting colors together is already different across various wet mediums, so it's no surprise that there are unique considerations and challenges in dry media too! Join us and learn all you ever wanted to know and more! 🌈

Sunday, December 7, 4:00 PM: Include a handmade surprise on each gift with Riso Collage & Wax Seal Gift Tags! In this multi-disciplinary workshop, you'll collage together a unique gift tag design, then have that design printed with Risograph. Add stickers and stamps to make each tag one-of-a-kind, then level it up with ribbons and a wax seal! So fancy and nice!! 🏷️ NEW CLASS!

NOTICE: Riff Raff League will be switching to every other week starting in December. There is no Riff Raff on December 7, but we'll be back on the 14th!

December's Color Theory class will focus on dry media. How do colors work when it's not a paint that mixes together? How do colors look when layered over each other, and how can you use that to your advantage when working in dry media? Find out!