If you're looking for some spooky, Halloween-y coloring pages to make this spooky season extra fun, we think you'll love the free coloring pages that Portland artist, Melissa Kojima offers on her website.  We've featured some of her free coloring pages on this site before and now, we feature some of her more spooky offerings. 

She creates gothic art that she calls, "darkly whimsical" which plays with the darkness.  Starting November 14, she'll have her first solo art show at RiverSea Gallery in Astoria, Oregon, a great gallery on the Oregon Coast.  If you like her art and want to support her, make sure to mark your calendars for this momentous art show.

Below are the links to the 2 spooky, Halloween-y coloring pages:

1. Skull Moths - Free Downloadable Coloring Page by Melissa Kojima​
2. Conjoined Spooky Twins - Free Downloadable Coloring Page by Melissa Kojima​

Should you need any coloring supplies for the coloring pages, please make an order with us at this link.

We love painter Bob Ross and his happy, little trees and happy, little accidents.  That's why we were so excited to hear that Disjecta Contemporary, a Portland, OR contemporary art center, offers a Bob Ross Art Party every Saturday night during October & November.  There is the option to do it online or do it social distancing in person.  

1. If you'd like to do the social distancing in person party, click this link to get all the details and to pay.  It includes drinks and one canvas per person.
2. If you'd like to do the online option, they ask that you email them at info@disjecta.org They can drop off (or mail) supplies for a zoom party!​

You don't get much more Halloween than pumpkins and ghosts and that's what these 2 Halloween art projects include to make your life just so much more Halloween-y.  Both have easy to follow step by step instructions to guide you.  Both are made from Grafix Art sheets.  Click on the links below to read the full instructions for each project.

1. Ghost Halloween Candy Jar:  https://www.grafixarts.com/projects/cling-boo-jars/
2. Metallic Pumpkin Halloween Greeting Card:  https://www.grafixarts.com/projects/grafix-metallic-pumpkin-card/

Should you need any art supplies for either of these art projects, make an order with us at this link.

Some places are slowly, carefully and safely opening up during COVID-19 and that includes the Oregon Society of Artists who not only have art exhibitions but they have plenty of art classes and workshops. 

Their fall line up of classes not only includes in person classes but a lot of online classes in which you can learn art via Zoom.  That means you can keep extra safe, not have to wear a mask and keep learning art from the comfort of you own home.  Their prices are quite affordable and if you need some financial help, they also offer scholarships.  Checkout their full schedule at this link.  A few of the interesting online classes include the following, but there are so many more:

1. Expressive Painting with Instructor: Joanne R. Kollman
   
2. Saturday Pastels Session I with Instructor: Susan Kuznitsky
   
3. Life Drawing with Instruction with Instructor: Joanne R. Kollman
   
4. Illustrate Your Everyday with Instructor: Nicole Poole
   
5. Color Pop with Gouache with Instructor: Nicole Poole
   

If you need any art supplies for any of their classes, make an an order with us at this link.

If you ever are looking for inspiration or ideas or just want to support local Oregon artists, we recommend you check out Oregon Art Beat.  They are part of the Oregon Public Broadcasting station and they weekly feature an Oregon artist. 

After doing this for many years, with 22 seasons available to watch, they have compiled a huge catalog of some of the best Oregon artists who are doing some of the most interesting and fun things happening in the Oregon art world.  Sculptors, draftsmen, abstract and figurative painters, textile artists, collage artists and whimsical artists, plus so many more are all included. 

Recent features have included artists:

1. taking on Donald Trump
2. trying to find peace during COVID-19
3. keeping Zapotec weaving tradition alive

Should any of these artists inspire you to create your own masterpieces to address our difficult times, and you need art supplies, make an art order with us at this link.

If you don't know it already, we loudly and proudly boast that we make the best custom art kits this side of the Mississippi River.  And if that is an exaggeration, we at least know you won't be able to find these unique kits anywhere but at our art supply store. 

Below are the Halloween, spooky, fun, art kits we have available right now.  Click on an image and be brought to the item in our online shop.  Skulls, cats, owls, and Halloween monsters are some of the cool art kits you'll find with us. 

​ Find all the art kits we have made-----not just the Halloween kits-----right now, right here at this link.

In honor of the spooky season and because we thought you'd enjoy it, we are introducing you to Portland Artist, Nanette Wallace.  She creates ethereal and spooky monotype prints in black and white that seem like ghosts from the past that might haunt you on a chilly, stormy night.  She grew up in romping and playing in the fields and forests of Oregon which she says inspires a lot of her artwork.  We can tell she is also inspired by vintage photos and times long gone.

Follow her on Instagram to see her cats laying on her artwork, her printing presses that allow her to make this wonderfully, spooky art and to also see her oil painting. 

​She teaches monotype workshops too that you can learn more about on her website at this link.

​Should you need any art supplies for print making, click here to place an order with us.

We love the spooky season and know it's a great time to make some fun Halloween decor.  We've found a step-by-step guide for you to make Halloween decor from Grafix Cling Films that you can stick to any non-porous surface. 

That means you can create your own spooky surprises to go on doors, windows, the cookie jar, your soap dispenser, or wherever your spooky, little imagination thinks it is best.  Click on the link above to read the full instructions and to see what kind of Grafix films and art supplies you'll need.

If you don't already have what you need for this Halloween project, get all the art supplies from us at this link.

Artist Melissa Vance Goodman who lives and works in Portland, Oregon, creates beautiful still life paintings of fruit, books and tea kettles that also include dragons.  This makes her paintings both whimsical and spooky at the same time.  They invite you to come in, have a seat, have a cup of tea and pet these mythological creatures.  

Artist Melissa Alford lives and creates spooky artwork in Portland, Oregon. She's inspired by childhood ghost stories and is trained as a comic book artist. In her art, she explores the reality of devastation, despair, heartbreak, loneliness and all the darkest parts of life.  To produce her darkly enchanting art, she uses pen, ink and marker.  We love that she so adeptly uses black and white to create shadowy worlds that evoke mystery and fun.  Make sure to check out more of her art on her Instagram account by clicking here.

​Should you need any black and white art supplies to create your own shadowy and spooky artwork, click here.