I had the good fortune to be invited to do comics art demonstrations at this year’s ArtTastic event at KidsQuest Children’s Museum in Bellevue, Washington, on February 27, 2026. The mission of the event was to not only encourage kids to create crafts and expand their imaginations, but also to introduce local art craftsmen who excel in various forms of art.
The other featured artists included:
Lamecca Bostwick- multidisciplinary painter
SmallRiniLady- vintage shadow portraits and paper art. @smallrinilady on Social Media
Theatre 33- multilingual non-profit community theater in Bellevue, WA. theatre33wa.org
All the artists were located around the museum. I welcomed families to the second floor in the Connections lounge. For the event, I crafted a mix-and-match set of animals, insects, reptiles, and fantasy creatures that younger kids could move body parts around to create new creatures. For older kids, I worked with them to illustrate their own unique creatures and showed them how to illustrate feathers, scales, claws, and even crab pinsurs! It was a lot of fun, and I enjoyed meeting everyone who came by the Connections area.
It was a delight being a part of ArtTastic and I hope to do more events with Kids’ Quest Children’s Museum in Bellevue!
A few weeks ago, I was honored to do a presentation at Art Common’s Creative Summit in North Bend, Washington. The theme of that night’s creative summit was “art as a catalyst for change,” and there were many speakers from all walks of the creative space discussing how interpret and guide social discourse in our creative lives.
For the talk, I made a zine. Of course I did! The eight-page zine covers a lot of ground in a short amount of time, addressing how when you feel tense and scared, you can use art to express yourself. When those moments and emotions become too big, you can then gather in a community, and how those positive ideas that are fostered in a community can rally into larger movements.
To present the zine, I recreated it on poster-sized Post-it notes which I could flip while reading out loud to the audience. Afterwards, it was put on display for people to read through.
It was a wonderful night, and I met tons of new people, also in the creative spaces on the Eastside of Seattle.
Cheers to art!
Kat
Today is the 250th birthday of Jane Austen, the magnificent writer of so many of the most beloved romance novels of the 19th century. It is a true testament to her observation of personal relationships and personalities that her stories remain so relatable today as they did when they were first written.
Hiya All,
The kids comics classes at the Issaquah Community Center are so popular that there’s a waitlist for November classes, and our December classes have two seats left! We are working on putting together classes for January and February 2026.
If you or someone you know is interested in making comics, please visit https://www.happytimestudio.com/workshopandclassschedule
Hiya Everyone,
I am excited to share that I will be teaching two sets of how to draw comics classes for students 8-12 years old this fall Saturday mornings at the Issaquah Community Center.
The classes can be a little tricky to find on the programs website, but if you search for keyword “comics” they pop right up.
The first set of classes are November 8th, 15th, and 22nd from 11-11:50 AM at the Issaquah Community Center in Oldtown. The second set of classes are December 6th, 13th, and 20th at the same time and location. You do not need to be a Issaquah resident to register for classes. They are similar classes, where students will learn how to write, layout, and draw a zine comic over the course of three weeks.
Create something today,
Kat