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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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Oh! Also, some other new classes debuting in December including Fantasy Map Making and Taking Care of Business: Pricing Your Work, which is pay-what-you-want for the class! ^_^
Promo graphic for Fantasy Map Making, Saturday, December 20, 6-8 pm. Make your mark and say "here be dragons" with this fantast map making workshop! Whether you're an artist, author, DM, GM, or just really like maps, you'll learn about how to make believable maps! Features a hand drawn fantasy map overlayed with clip art of mountain forms and a dragon in waves. Promo graphic for Taking Care of Business: Pricing Your Work. Business, business, business, numbers... IS THIS WORKING? Start planning for 2026 amd learn how to tackle the ever important question of how much to charge for your work. Monday, December 29, 6-8 pm. Features stock art of someone counting cash and clip art of cash flying everywhere.
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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New class promo graphics for new classes! Riso Collage & Wax Seal Gift Tags is next week, and Button-Making Workshop debuts in January!
Promo graphic for making your own Riso Collage & Wax Seal Gift Tags!Include a handmade surprise on each gift! 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! Features a photo of gift tags printed in gold ink on brown paper, hand written "to" and "from" fields, ribbon, and wax seals. Promo graphic for Button Making Workshop. Make your own pinback buttons! Make 30 unique, one-of-a-kind pieces of wearable art! Features poppy vintage fonts and clip art of blank buttons in a limited palette graphic.
November 25, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Back in stock after some time away is the Witching Hour watercolor Sticky Cap! Look at how gorgeous these paints are!! 🤩
Photo closeup of a pile of deep blue and shimmery watercolors set inside bottle caps. Printed paper packaging for the Witching Hour watercolor cap with swatches painted on and caps set on the printout where they will go when cut out. Photo of Witching Hour cap and its deep blue swatch, photographed against a white background.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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Check out A STAR CALLED THE SUN, a new anthology by Simon Roy featuring stories from the far-flung future... Robotic clergy, posthuman hive-men, immortal cyborgs and ancient alien races all play a part in this collection of sci-fi adventure tales.
Hardcover comic anthology "A Star Called the Sun" on display on a black shelf. Cover features a unique alien standing next to a human character in a desert-like landscape. Hand holding open the book to show two pages of three-tier panels.
November 24, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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This week! Come hang out and make art! Give the gift of education and/or time to make stuff! Support small biz and small creators! www.pushpullseattle.com/classes.html

We are closed on Thursday! Consider a donation to your local tribe while you enjoy your holiday meal! www.realrentduwamish.org
Promo graphic for events and classes this week (Nov 24-30) at Push/Pull, including Watercolor Landscapes, Block Printing Workshop (sold out), QU-ART Queer Artists Meetup, Paint a Gouache-shroom, DIY Screen Printing, Holiday Cards on Risograph, Oil Landscapes, and Riff Raff League! Graphic stating "we are closed on Thanksgiving day, which is a great day to pay rent to the Duwamish Tribe" above clip art of decorative gourds and fall leaves. Below is additional text: "we are open for regular hours Friday & through the weekend (that's 10-8 Friday/Sat, 9-7 Sunday), ♥ Push/Pull Team"
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Restocks from the big three! Primary and popular colors of Golden acrylic paints, M. Graham oil paints, and Daniel Smith watercolor paints! PLUS restocks of foamcore board and soooooo many pencil sharpeners! Keep your pencils pointy throughout this busy hectic season! ✏️
Golden, M. Graham, and Daniel Smith paint tubes laid out on the front counter, along with Daniel Smith masking fluid. Two stacks of white foamcore board on display among paper pads. Full container of 2-hole metal sharpeners. Handwritten sign says "Eisen 2-hole Metal Sharpener, $3 each" A variety of colorful pencil sharpeners and erasers on display.
November 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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WIP of a watercolor going out to subscription box getters this week and which will be out on the floor afterwards... ✨️✨️✨️
November 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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The last two months of the year always fly by so fast... they're flyin' by RIGHT NOW... catch some of these fun classes & meetups before they fly by too...!!
Promo graphic for classes this week (Nov 17-23) at Push/Pull, including Shrinky Drinks n' Drinks, Ballard Sketch Team (at Hattie's Hat), Teen Art After School, Drawing Techniques, Part-Time Poets' Club, Figrue Drawing, Watercolor Pet Portraits, Maxx-imalist Charm Necklace, Gouache Critters, Fountain Pen Ink Mix & Make, and Riff Raff League! Promo graphic for Maxx-imalist Charm Necklace, which is a new class! Alternating 4th Saturdays, 3-5 pm. Features a photo of a super extra necklace filled with big cute charms and plastic letters that read "Maxx."
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Be Merry opened tonight! And a coupla ornaments sold already so be sure to swing by soon before they're all gone!
Various handmade ornaments hanging on a wall. Angled shot of wall full of handmade ornaments. At the front is the Be Merry promi poster and a sign that reads "buy an ornament today and take it straight home!" Angled shot of wall from the other side.
November 16, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Store-made watercolor displays looking so nice and full lately. 😍
Watercolor display with zoom in on dayglo sets and individual caps. Full regular (non-vegan) watercolor display including standard and custom colors. Vegan watercolor cap display, zoom in on sets and handwritten sign. Vegan caps don't include honey! Vegan watercolor cap display!
November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Get 25% off our Tri-Art and Gamblin 1980 paints IN-STORE ONLY until they're gone...
Display of Tri-Art acrylic paint tubes.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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And in case you missed it, our annual holiday show BE MERRY opens this Saturday and will feature lots of handmade ornaments available for immediate take-home!

We'll also have special, one-of-a-kind mystery bags 🎁 and an ornament creation station for you to make your own ornaments! ✨
Promo graphic for Be Merry, Push/Pull's Annual Ornament show using various clip art of fir branches and bauble ornaments, including a heart-shaped one that says "hand made." Come see dozens of handmade, one of a kind hangable pieces of art, ready to take home immediately! Plus make your own ornaments with your supplies! Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15, 6-9 PM.
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Also check out these recent miscellany restockies~
Several tubs of Cheep! brand black and white acrylic paint stacked on a low shelf. Two rolls of unstretched canvas on display among stretched canvas. Stacks of ornate wood panels and various sizes of stretched canvas piled on a shelf. Multi-color wooden art mannequins on display, many inside a cardboard box with windows cut out of it and sharpied text that reads "unz unz unz" among music notes. This shipment of mannequins are a bit rowdy.
November 13, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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We're participating in Ballard's Harvest Food Drive again this year! Things have been extra rough for many of our neighbours lately...

Donate or volunteer at the Ballard Food Bank directly if you're able, or bring requested items to us at the store & we'll drop them off for you!
Promo graphic for Harvest Food Drive. Donate food during the season of giving, November 1-30, 2025. Features clip art of canned and jarred foods and abstract food art.
November 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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It's Tuesday! Another lengthy newsletter is out, but these are always quite skimmable, so!!
A pile of shiny golden watercolor Sticky Caps. (The color is Treasure.)
November 11, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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SO MANY CARD & ENVELOPE SETS are in!!! Make some cards! Get 'em done and in the mail early! 💌📮Or get all the supplies and sit on them for a few more weeks until the panic sets in. Y'know. 😽 You do you!
Blank card and envelope sets on display on a shelf. Nice paper stationary on display. Blank card and envelope sets on display on a shelf. Blank card and envelope sets on display on a shelf.
November 11, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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The gang's all here! Pick up Barbara along with her friends in our restocked VAPORWAVE set! store.pushpullseattle.com/product/push...
Vaporwave 6-watercolor set packaged and out on display with other store-made watercolor sets. The 6 colors of the Vaporwave set photographed with their swatches under blacklight. Everything is glowing intensely.
November 9, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Another week is here! Time doesn't stop!! www.pushpullseattle.com/calendar.html
Promo graphic for classes and events this week (Nov 10-16) at Push/Pull, including QU-ART, Acrylic Painting Cats, Watercolor for Everyone, Intermediate Procreate, Popup Bouquet Cards, Inking with Brush, All About Gouache, Opening Reception: Be Merry, Intro to Alcohol Markers, and Riff Raff League.
November 9, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Barbara is back! store.pushpullseattle.com/product/push...
Pile of individually packaged watercolor Sticky Caps of "Barbara" a hot pink blacklight reactive glow in the dark color. Cap of Barbara and a swatch, glowing intensely under blacklight.
November 8, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Incoming Riso stickers by @sethbeastmeat.bsky.social ... 😺😼
November 6, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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This Saturday, come Block Print Your Holiday Cards! It's a great way to learn a new artistic medium while getting a big item off your to do list done!
Promo graphic for Block Print Your Own Holiday Cards, featuring 3 photos from past block carving classes! Photo of several block printed cards, featuring a design that reads "joy", hanging to dry. Photo of two block printed cards hanging to dry, featuring a design of paper lanterns and the word "peace." Photo of a messy art table with block carvings in various stages of being carved and in progress printing.
November 6, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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A Better World is possible if we want to imagine it. There are so many things that can be improved upon. What are your ideas? What can we work towards? Give the possibilities shape and definition, and then maybe we can strive towards it...

More info & submit: www.pushpullseattle.com/news/call-fo...
Call for Submissions promo graphic for "A Better World" a zine by Riff Raff League. Features a stock photo of a starry night sky above pine silhouettes above navy text on a solid periwinkle background.
November 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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Oops, Ballard Sketch Team got left out of this, but that's TONIGHT 6pm till whenever at Hattie's Hat!! And tomorrow is Stitch n' Bitch at the store! Both are FREE super chill meetup/hangouts! Bring stuff to work on!
Promo graphic for Ballard Sketch Team, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at Hattie's Hat! Promo graphic for Stitch n Bitch, 1st Wednesdays, 6-8pm!
November 4, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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New local zine! Check out VESSEL, full of recipes, rituals, and reflections to help readers reorient themselves to the natural world.
Half page zine on display in a spin rack. "Vessel: a zine for remembering the body as nature" features a painting of a branch and berries in a white vase with a full moon behind it. Hand holding open a spread of the zine with headlines, "the body as a vessel" and "welcoming winter" on the pages.
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM