Happy Lunar New Year of the Horse! 🐎πŸ”₯

Happy Year of the Horse! 🐎πŸ”₯
Happy Lunar New Year! It's the year of the FIRE HORSE: challenging, transformative, and full of energy -- for better or worse. πŸ”₯

KIRISKA finished theΒ Year of the Horse piece for their zodiac series (two animals left!) just in time, so come grab a print! Some of their other prints, zines, and stickers have also been restocked!
Notes & Reminders
"Beginning Painting" for TEENS
Get your teen started with painting in watercolor, gouache, and acrylics in the upcoming 5-week series, "Beginning Painting" starting February 25 with Teen Art After School!
Sea Slug Animation Fest!
Love animation? This scrappy local animation festival is heading into its second year! Check out the lineup and make plans! 🐌
This Week
Get started with oil painting in our 4-week series, Intro to Solvent-Free Oil Painting -- and yes! You can paint without harsh chemicals and smelly solvents! 🎨
TONIGHT, February 17, 6:00 PM: Every first and third Tuesday is Ballard Sketch Team, a casual artist meetup at Hattie's Hat! Bring your sketchbook (or whatever you're working on!) and get some scribbling in while chilling out with other creatives! FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, February 18, 6:00 PM: This month's Drawing Techniques will focus on drawing from imagination! Mix and match your favourite animals to create a dazzling menagerie of fantasy creatures while learning basic construction and techniques for drawing from imagination! 🐲

Thursday, February 19, 6:00 PM: Our 4-part series, Intro to Solvent-Free Oil Painting, is back! Join us for four consecutive Thursdays while we explore oil painting as a medium and how you can pursue it without harsh chemicals and harmful solvents! Yes, there is a better way! πŸ‘¨β€πŸŽ¨

Friday, February 20, 5:30 PM: Sketchbooks aren't just for drawing-type artists! Come learn how to Make an Embroidery Book and create a place to collect little stitch ideas, or just a place to do mindless stitching when you're in between projects. It's relaxing! πŸͺ‘

Friday, February 20, 8:00 PM: Join us for our monthly Figure Drawing session and settle in for long and short poses with our live model! Time spent studying the human form is always well spent, whether it's your first time, or your hundredth time!

Saturday, February 21, 10:00 AM: Explore Inking with Dip Pens! What's the difference between all those different nibs? What's better for what style of drawing? What kinds of techniques can you use to achieve the lines of lines you want? All this and more when you join us! βœ’οΈ

Saturday, February 21, 2:00 PM: There's ONE SPOT LFET for this month's All About Gouache with Maxx, our resident gouache-maker! Explore watercolor's opaque cousin and learn everything you've ever wanted to know about the medium! 🌲

Sunday, February 22, 11:00 AM: Were you taught that poetry has to have a rhyme scheme? Did your English teacher leave you with a sour taste in your mouth whenever the word β€œpoetry” is brought up? Unlearn all those unhelpful poetry thoughts by testing out more playful forms of poetry at Visual Poetry. Combining mixed media and collage practices, we'll bypass the blank page and play with words and images to create totally unique expressions of your (yes, really) poetic soul. βœ‚οΈ

Sunday, February 22, 2:00 PM: February's Gouache Critters creaturing bats is SOLD OUT!! Sign up for the waitlist or claim a spot for next month's class featuring HUMMINGBIRDS! 🐦

Sunday, February 22, 7:15 PM: Find your people and focus your energy on things you can do in and for your local community at Riff Raff League, our biweekly meetup for political action and local organising. ✊FREE MEETUP.
Book Spotlight: Extinct!
Extinct! is another cute 4-color Risograph dinosaur zine by Portland artist Kory Bing, who also brought us Dinosaurs With Weird Names! Great for kids who are in their dinosaur phase... ;)

Read about various plants and animals that have gone extinct over the past several hundred million years! Our planet is a wonder, so learn some fun facts about life that used to exist here, but doesn't anymore!
New & Restocked!
Kawaiiju stickers
New "kawaiiju" stickers from Seth are here: SHIN GODZILLA & ANGUIRUS… we also got a Burger Cop restock!
Push/Pull "Bark" fp ink
Restocked! Our Bark ink is back! It's a bark with some bite! Ochre-brown ink with gold and copper mica!! πŸ’›
Paperback Paradise
New! We've got a bunch of amazing postcards in from Paperback Paradise featuring parody vintage novel covers that you definitely wish were real...
VAPORWAVE
ICYMI: Our store-made Vaporwave watercolors are restocked, both as a set and as individual caps!

These paints are glow-in-the-dark and UV reactive! Portland artist Arin Rae recently used them in a Seahawks painting and you can see the glow in action in this video! It's awesome! πŸ’™πŸ’š
Look Ahead!
Monday, February 23, 5:30 PM: NEW CLASS! Learn practical visible mending techniques to extend the lives of your garments and add some pizzazz to old favorites at Creative Visible Mending with Ansel! 🧡

Tuesday, February 24, 6:00 PM: Get fresh eyes on your fresh work at Fresh Look, our supportive peer critique meetup! Bring your works in progress, stuck projects, and basic ideas and get feedback from other artists and creatives -- and see what everyone else is up to, too! πŸ‘€ FREE MEETUP.

Wednesday, February 25, 3:30 PM: It's the start of a 5-week series for Teen Art After School! Come in every Wednesday through March 25 and explore painting in three different mediums: watercolor, gouache, and acrylic paint! This series is specifically for teens ages 12-18! Don't miss it! 🎨

Wednesday, February 25, 6:00 PM: At this month's Watercolor Landscapes, we'll paint an ✨Italian landscape✨! What does that comprise? Come in, find out, and have fun with watercolors with us! (●'β—‘'●) ⛰️

Friday, February 27, 6:00 PM: Is it the last Friday already? What a short month indeed! Wrap it all up with us at QU-ART, our twice-monthly queer artists meetup! Bring something to work on while hanging out -- maybe you'll even finish it! 🌈 FREE MEETUP.

Saturday, February 28, 11:00 AM: There's ONE SPOT LEFT for this Watercolor Pet Portraits! Brush up on your watercolor skills while painting (one of?) your fav lil guy(s)!! πŸ•

Saturday, February 28, 2:00 PM: Learn the process of screen printing on your own cute little 4"x6" mini screen at DIY Screen Printing! It's a great way to see how it all works before investing in all the equipment and supplies that the medium often requires. πŸͺŸ

Sunday-Tuesday, March 1-3, 4:00 PM: Get started with acrylics in Intro to Acrylic Painting series, taking place over 3 consecutive afternoons! The first two classes focus on learning about the medium and experimenting. At the end of the second class, you'll plan out a painting to work on during the final class! Can't wait to see what everyone paints! πŸ§‘β€πŸŽ¨
Come paint with us at our monthly Watercolor Landscapes class! What variations on the theme will you add in yours to make it truly your own? It's always so fun to see how different everyone's work turns out!