Have you picked up an October calendar yet? 🎃
Have you picked up an October calendar yet? 🎃
In case you missed it, we updated the format of our printed calendars to be a bit less cramped, but we still have them! Swing by and pick one up in-store, or as always, check the most up-to-date schedule online! We've got lots happening this month, including a number of seasonal classes, so don't miss out!
Notes & Reminders
Monthly Mystery Box
Like the Paint Bugs! watercolor set, our NEW Northern Lights series of fountain pen inks debuted in last month's Ink and Deluxe Boxes!

Production of our October inks and paints is underway! Be the first to try them out by signing up by October 15th for the October mystery box! You can get a subscription or just a one-off box! 🎁They won't hit the shelves for everyone else until November!
A Supply Request!
Do you have old piles of 12x12 scrapbooking paper around you're never gonna use? Bring them in for us to use and upcycle!

Do you have some old paper pads you're almost done with? We'd love to have the hard backing board from them!

Just bring them in and let us know you'd like to donate them for our use. Thank you so much!
FREE Kids & Teen Art After School
UPDATE: We've pushed back the starting time for our Teen Art After School classes to 3:30 PM to hopefully better accommodate after school travel times!

A new 5-class series on Printmaking starts for Teens on October 15th! Sign up or share with parents in your life! Our next After School Art for Kids series starts November 3rd!

Kids get more out of these classes when more of their peers are around, so we hope to be able to fill more spots in these FREE programs! We appreciate your helping us to spread the word!
This Week
We've gotten lots of requests for a colored pencil class, and Intro to Colored Pencil Illustration is finally here! Learn how to get more from your colored pencils with blending and burnishing techniques!
TONIGHT, 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! 🌿TWO SPOTS LEFT.

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.
Book Spotlight: Kitchen Witch
Cast a spell to turn your kitchen into a healthy haven with Kitchen Witch! Learn about traditional healing methods, gain practical DIY skills, and extricate yourself from reliance on the toxic consumer products that we have come to take for granted. Recipes and tips cover all aspects of a natural lifestyle, from home and garden to body and mind.

Simple instructions and a thorough list of tools and ingredients provides you with everything you need to get started, while the annotated bibliography steers curious readers to even more information.
New & Restocked!
Microcosm Publishing
New and restocked! A big ol' Microcosm order came in and we've got restocks of all their popular staples plus lots of fun new titles, many seasonal, and many ever-topical.
Free Period Press
New and restocked! Bunch of books and stickers from Free Period Press are also in, including coloring books featuring all kinds things! 🖍️
Pacific Arc
New and restocked! Pacific Arc supplies us with TRACING PAPER in both pads and rolls, various drafting supplies, fineliners, alcohol markers, beautiful lay-flat sketchbooks, and more! 
Stickers from KIRISKA
New and restocked! Kiriska brought in some new stickers, along with restocking some older designs that were out of print a while, like these spooky bird sticker sheets!
Push/Pull Northern Lights inks
New! And don't forget about these Northern Lights inks! They're a limited release, so once they're gone, they're gone for a good while!

We might re-make them eventually, but there are so many other colors to make...
Look Ahead!
Students hard at work at our most recent gouache class. Join us for All About Gouache and start (or restart!) your journey with this amazing medium! 🎨
Monday, October 13, 6:00 PM: It's a Monday evening QU-ART! Start your week off with great vibes. Come in and work on whatever you feel like working on while hanging out with other queer artists at this FREE MEETUP! 🌈

Tuesday, October 14, 5:00 PM: Get started with acrylic painting by capturing your favourite cat (we won't tell the others) to canvas at Acrylic Painting Cats, a super beginner friendly evening of learning, experimenting, and cat photo show and tell! 😻

Wednesday, October 15, 3:30 PM: It's the start of another 5-class series at Teen Art After School! This Intro to Printmaking series will cover a variety of printmaking techniques, so get ready to learn a BUNCH of new ways of making art! Maybe you'll discover your new favourite medium! 🖨️ FREE/PWYW CLASS.

Wednesday, October 15, 6:00 PM: This month's Drawing Techniques covers graphite value scales. You might already know the H to B hardness/softness scale, but how do you better utilise it to achieve the effects you want in drawing? Is it better to use HB? 2B? 4H? Find out and learn more! ✏️

Thursday, October 16, 6:00 PM: Part-Time Poets' Club is an opportunity to schedule time specifically for poetry-crafting! Surviving the day to day takes a lot of energy and effort, but creativity is part of survival too! Don't short yourself. Come in, write, share if you want, enjoy the company of other poets! FREE MEETUP. 💻

Friday, October 17, 5:30 PM: Are you a fiber artist who's always loved the idea of sketchbooks, but don't feel like they really fit your craft? Fear not! You can Make an Embroidery Book! Drawing-type artists can't monopolise the fun! 📖

Friday, October 17, 8:00 PM: Spend Friday night with fellow artists revisiting and refreshing foundations at Figure Drawing! Humans are weird; drawing from life helps! 🕺

Saturday, October 18, 2:00 PM: Gouache remains underappreciated and overlooked in the shadow of its much more popular cousin, watercolor. Learn about what makes gouache different, special, and amazing, at All About Gouache! 🎨

Sunday, October 19, NOON: NEW CLASS! Want to get into fiber arts, but don't think knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross stitch, or needle felting are for you?? Give weaving a try at Intro to Weaving! Learn the basics of weaving and make yourself a fashionable accessory! 🪢

Sunday, October 19, 3:00 PM: Another NEW CLASS! Cut the Crap: A No BS Collage Workshop with cartoonist and collagist Marty Gordon is gonna be exactly what it says on the tin! Marty promises: no art school vibes, no perfection, no overthinking! Let's go! ✂️

Sunday, October 19, 7:15 PM: Protest is important, but it's not the only way to resist or fight back. Join us at Riff Raff League as we work together to figure out what else we can do, and what more we can do. ✊
Another new class! A fun, no BS collage workshop with a new instructor, the esteemed Marty Gordon! ✂️✂️✂️
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