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, print shop, and so much more. OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK! Visit us at 2000 NW Market St, Seattle, WA, or online at pushpullseattle.com 🎨🌈😺

Labels for Iroki handmade watercolor paint, freshly swatched. It's a goldish black with gold mica.
Spin rack of large journals, including colorful covers from Clairefontaine and Rhodia orange and black.
The top of Kaylyn's head and eyes looking up with multiple stacks of notebooks and journals behind her...
Various zines in an area labeled as free zines, including an 8th fold zine titled "what is urbanism?"
Stacks of a 24pc dual-tip marker set at the front desk.
Promo graphic for events this week (July 20-26) at Push/Pull, including Botanical Sketching, Part-Time Poets, Teen Watercolor & Mixed Media Camp, Ballard Sketch Team, Watercolor Landscapes, Intro to Needle Felting, Pamphlet-stitched Notebooks w Risograph, Fantasy Map Making, Watercolor Pet Portraits
Promo graphic for Figure Drawing featuring a digital speedpaint of a figure reclining on a couch. Third Fridays, 8-10 pm.
Three stacks of stickers featuring an alligator head, an anthropomorphic bat diety, and a deer skull with ornate gold designs around it.
Several people at a messy art table working on ink drawings with a variety of brushes. Two people are turned towards the camera holding up their finished drawings.
Container of Speedball lino cutter handles in different colors with handwritten sign naming them at $7/ea.
Animated graphic featuring clip art of a wrapped present. Text reads, "get a monthly mystery box! or get just one, as a treat!"
Promo graphic featuring a photo of a red bird mask against a red fabric background. Text overlayed reads, "Push/Pull presents, Hide & Seek, call for art, artistic wearable masks, apply by August 1, responses by August 5, artwork due October 8, show opens October 10.
A rooster printed in 3-color Risograph with a rising sun behind it and text reading "rise up!" in all caps.
Two rows of small metal tins with a label on them read "Utility Tin, utility tin with 12 tiny multipurpose magnets"
Promo graphic for classes and events this week (July 13-19) at Push/Pull, including QU-ART: Queer Artists Meetup (freE), Shrink n' Drink, Teen Fiber Arts Camp (3 days), Drawing Techniques (sold out), Inking with Brush, Live Figure Drawing, All About Gouache (2 spots left), Intro to Alcohol Markers, Dramatic Acrylic Landscapes.
A tattooed person showing off their knuckle tattoos in front of Push/Pull's table at Hot Off the Press, they read "Push Pull"
Table with lots of zines on it and a black table cloth and sign reading "Push/Pull, art, comix, community"
Whistles kits including 3d printed whistles and zines in a blue box on another blue box on a chair.
Promo graphic for Strange Girls Club, weathering a painting of three girls with eyes in their hair and a multi-eyed alien monster. An exhibition of illustrative paintings by Summer Clarke, opening July 11.
Cup of hobby knives with hand written sign, "Hobby 'precision' knives, $3 each"
Hand holding up a small green macaron doodad; in the free bin are several other colors of macarons, plastic animal figures, and various stickers, zines, and pinback buttons.
Garden of Spheres by Linnea Sterte on display.
Various pens on a table, including Colorverse Shuttle, Sailor Hocoro, BENU Pixie, and Tom's Studio Lumos.
A vial of Shiitake cool brown fountain pen ink photographed against its swatch against a white background.
A grey and white cat with a blue cap that says "partern in crime" and teal harness and leash looking out of a backpack carrier in the store.
Flyer with two headers reading "Event Schedule" and "Push/Pull on Tour, Summer 2026". Lists PNW Pen Show (July 10-12), Hot Off the Press Book Fair (July 11), Urban Craft Uprising (July 25-26), Bremerton Zine Fest (August 7), Phinney Comic Show (August 8), and Tacoma Zine Fest (August 15).
Several issues of the comic Blood Sugar by Rezllen on display among other comics and zines.
Promo graphic for Cut the Crap, a no BS collage Workshop with Marty, featyring a variety of collage pieces.
Promo graphic for classes and events this week (July 6-12) at Push/Pull, including Botanical Sketching, Cut the Crap: Collage Workshop, Printmakign Camp for Teens, Ballard Sketch Team, Watercolor for Everyone, Acrylic Painting Cats, Ink & Watercolor Illustration, Risograph on Paper, Creative Visible Mending, Opening Reception: Strange Girls Club.
A stack of stickers on display featuring a cartoon bald eagle with wide eyes and sweat against a striped red star with a text banner reading "what the heck is wrong with yall".
Four people around a table writing postcards to elected officials. Various supplies are on the table, including papers with mailing addresses, blank postcards, and writing utensils. Visible faces have been replaced with fire emoji.
Samoyed dog on leash looking upwards.
Sideways photo of a grey tabby at a window, painted in acrylics with a wet palette next to the canvas.
Video walkthrough of the back half of the store, walking down both aisles and planning over all the supplies.
Several cyanotype kits on a bottom shelf.
Three medium-sized cardboard boxes filled with ink vials, though only the tops are visible. Each cap is marked with a few letters in white, indicating the ink within.
Display of Beam Paints individual watercolors and wood round palettes.
Push/Pull July schedule printed on blue paper, taped to the front window.
Promo graphic for classes and events this week (June 29-July 5) at Push/Pull, including Botanical Sketching, Visual Poetry, Intro to UV Resin Jewelry, Intro to Acryli cPainting (3 days), Stitch n' Bitch (free), Botanical Watercolors, F the Fourth (free), Design for Risograph in Photoshop, and Book Binding (sold out). Graphic includes clip art of fireworks with trans flag colors and an overall trans flag theme.
Printed sheet of "Beary Nice" fountain pen ink labels being swatched with a brush.
8 rainbow glazed doughnuts in an open box.
Acrylic painting of a corgi facing a seaside scene with sailboats on the horizon. Painting is on a tabletop easel and surrounded by bottles of paints, buckets of paintbrushes, a messy palette sheet, etc.
Pile of Platinum Prefounte and Plaisir fountain pens at the front desk.
Several metal tins on a table, each with dried watercolor paint on the edges.
Two bikes locked to the rack in front of the store. One is black, big with a slammed seat post and bullhorn handlebars. The other is beige, smaller with seat all the way doen and drop bars. Lol.
Funko Predator figure at the front desk.
Promo graphic, "Call for 6x6x6 Art," featuring an embroidered sleeping cat on a small hoop against a pink/beige checkered background with flames at the bottom. Additional text reads, "small works," "apply by July 10," and "seeking 2D & 3D works 6"x6"x6" or smaller. All mediums welcome. More info at pushpullseattle.com"
Display of blue/green Kuretake Gansai Tambi single pans.
Shelf with several books and graphic novels on display facing out.
Promo graphic for Intro to Clip Studio Paint, online class via Zoom. All the tips and tricks you never knew you needed! Learn about built in tools, free assets, workflow shortcuts, and more!
Promo graphic for classes and events this week (June 22-28) including Botanical Sketching (at Ballard Locks), Intro to Clip Studio Paint (new, online), Fresh Look: Peer Critique (free), Watercolor Landscapes, QU-ART: Queer Artists Meetup (free), DIY Screen Printing, Watercolor Pet Portraits, All Cryptids Are Beautiful (new), Gouache Critters, Oil Landscapes, and Riff Raff League (free).
A full box of erasers in the shape of a tuxedo cat on display next to a small framed trading card-sized watercolor painting of a rex cat.
A walkthrough of the Cats of Ballard 2026 show at Push/Pull going over all the framed originals and prints along the main wall.
Full display of assorted watercolor paper pads and journals.
Promo graphic for Intro to Printmaking Camp for Teens, July 7-10, 11am-3pm daily.
A medium-sized white sighthound (maybe a silken windhound or mix?) wearing an ornate collar and orange bandana looks at the camera with one ear raised while sitting behind the front desk.
Promo graphic for Inking with Dip Pens featuring various BW drawings done with dip pen.
Various sheets of chiyogami and other nice papers. The one on top is a deep blue and features a pattern of various astronomy-related symbols in white.
A repurposed plastic bin with handwritten sign that reads "round wax seals, $11.50 ea." Some metal pieces are vaguely visible through the frosted plastic, sitting on top of patterned tissue paper.
Various Sticky Cap watercolor paints on display on hooks.