Attendees will learn the fundamentals of hand lettering and traditional sign painting techniques. Guided step-by-step through layout, spacing, brush control, and letter construction, participants will develop confidence working with paint, brushes, and lettering tools while learning how sign painters create clean, balanced, and expressive text by hand. Register here.

Draw with your friends! Hone your skills! Have a beer! Drink & Doodle meets monthly at a bar and draws together figuratively and literally. Warm up with some chatting and individual drawing time, then move into quick, cooperative drawing games. Feel free to participate in the games or just use the time to work in your sketchbook. Bring pens or other drawing utensils, sketchbooks and or loose paper. Monthly locations vary. Register here.

Join your creative friends on the first Tuesday of each month for a casual gathering. This happy hour is a time to relax and connect with designers, illustrators, photographers, writers, artists, filmmakers, tattoo artists, musicians, dancers, choreographers, landscape architects, printers, and all around creative types. It's a time where you don't have to be "on." It's fun. We promise.

Drop in to create your own cyanotype print using the summer sun! Seattle Printers Guild will provide a 4x5 cyanotype sheet for each participant, along with drawing supplies to create stencils. You bring any small object(s) that you want to print—think interesting shapes and semi-translucent things. Visit the SPG calendar to learn more and RSVP.

This skill-building workshop with Heidi Hespelt will empower you to design and carve your own lino blocks—opening up more design possibilities for your relief printing, whether you plan to print at the kitchen table or with a printing press. All materials are provided—just bring yourself, and you’ll take home a linoleum block that you’ve carved from start to finish, along with an edition of prints. Register here.

The Salon Social at Public Display.Art / Art Love Salon is a weekly happy hour of like-minded artists and creatives chilling with wine and grooves in the gorgeous gallery space at Art Love Salon.

The Conru Art Foundation presents Summer of Awe, the umbrella for bringing people together through local art, local culture, and real places in Seattle. This walking tour is an exploration of historic downtown buildings nobody has been allowed to see. The Lusty Lady, locked since 2010. The 1916 Coliseum, sealed behind a retail-era drop ceiling for thirty years. About sixty minutes, hardhats on. Get meet up details here.

Drawing is a skill that requires constant refinement. Why not refine it with a beer and some new friends in a classic Seattle institution Hattie's Hat backroom. The perfect introvert activity! No skill level required, Bounce ideas off your comrades, get and give some advice or just hang out and doodle.

Serenity now! We don't know about you but we could stand a little peace. And The Frye is going to help calm our troubled souls with art and deep breathing exercises while looking at the ethereal beauty of art. The Frye offers free, thirty-minute drop-in sessions of Mindfulness Meditation on the first and third Wednesday of the month. Sessions on the third Wednesday of the month are guided by Katie Freeman. Registration is not required.