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Page 46 Shelton-Mason County Journal - Thursday, April 6, 2023
An Olympic View of Belfair
The Olympic View apartments are under construction on a sunny March 30 in
Belfair. Herald photo Matt Baide
Belfair art wall promotes HUB runway show May 13
By Kirk Boxleitner
Kbox/e/tner@masoncounty com
Barbara Treick, manager of Belfair
Self-Storage and curator of the busi—
ness’ art wall, is showing some 0 her
own work in April’s artist of the month
installation.
The art wall is displaying seven
canvas prints of patterns and designs
that are set to be featured in the HUB
Center for Seniors’ annual fundraising
runway show May 13.
“After selling many of my original
ink drawings through shows at Bel—
fair Self Storage, I began to wonder if
they would make good prints to sell,”
said Treick, who was introduced to the
graphic design program Canva around
this time.” I scanned and uploaded a
couple of my drawings to Canva, and
started manipulating contrast, color
and clarity. The program has several
grids available to create seamless pat-
terns. From one ink drawing, I can
generate anywhere from 24 to 100 new
patterns.”
What began as experiments to help
her learn the program turned into
Grapeview: Mid-April tides will allow
“really interesting patterns that I just
adored.”
For the past four years, Treick has
been producing print-on-demand prod—
ucts for handbags and accessories,
which led to the creation of her online
shop BABS ( Barbara’s Accessories and
Bags Store).
One of Treick’s designs will appear
on a handbag and long scarf, both in
her shop and on the runway. It was
created from “a meditating cat” ink
drawing, first using Canva, then up—
loaded to ArtsAdd, a design platform
that prints creators’ designs onto
products.
“When it was integrated into my on—
line shop, it started making sales the
first week,” Treick said.
To complement her ink drawing—
based designs, Treick started making
digital designs on Canva, then import-
ing them to Repper, an online pattern
generator.
“Oh my gosh, it’s so much fun,”
Treick said. “So many patterns, so
many ways to manipulate, so much
easier to learn than Photoshop or 11-
lustrator. Between Canva and Repper,
I have more than 1,500 patterns.”
Treick is adding paper collages
t0 the mix, but she picked the seven
prints for the HUB because she al-
ready had the canvases.
“I am a maximalist, and have art
hung on my walls from ceiling to floor
or furniture,” Treick said. “I think ev-
ery wall should be covered in pieces
that mean something to me, and tell
stories. I have a painting my grand-
son did in elementary school, one my
granddaughter did with fingernail pol-
ish on paper towels, family pictures
and a $10 poster with an $800 frame.”
Among Treick’s most recent pur-
chases is an abstract acrylic painting
done by Marshall Johnson, an artist in
Ocean Shores.
“I have three ofhis pieces already,”
Treick said. “I was trying to decide if
I wanted to hang my CityScape fabric
collage series, or my prints of patterns
being used on the runway this May,
but I can hang the CityScape anytime.
Putting up these canvas prints is a
sneak peek of what will be on the run—
way for the HUB.”
Treick reported that “things are
coming together” for the 1960s-and~
’70s—themed “Patio Party” fashion
show, for which all of her pieces have
been delivered.
“My co-designer, Birdi Nagy, is
putting outfits together, such as my
purses, her shoes and clothes from the
HUB thrift store,” Treick said. “Birdi
will have shoes, dresses, leather fan-
ny packs, convertible backpacks and
jewelry.”
Nagy is also apparently using her
own fabric to create garments that
match the pattern of a top from the
HUB thrift store, while Deidre Jansen
plans to offer several dresses of her de-
signs, which Treick describes as “just
outrageously fun and fringy.” Silver
Crucible prepares to supply handmade
silver bangles.
The HUB is working on getting ret-
ro-style sunglasses for all the models,
whose final fittings are scheduled for
April 28 at the HUB. Rehearsals are
scheduled May 12.
The HUB is at 111 NE Old Belfair
Highway in Belfair, and Belfair Self-
Storage is at 23270 NE state Route 3
in Belfair.
log installation
continued from page 43
“You’d just march down the line and hook them
up,” Whitson said. “If you do it right, it should only
take about five minutes per round.”
When Commissioner Jean Farmer cautioned that
the boat launch is used “all day and all night,” re-
gardless of the tide, Whitson countered, “It won’t
matter. People can use that launch to their heart’s
content,” adding that, “If we do the installation
right, it won’t affect the beach at all.”
Whitson said he planned to address the scouring
on the south side of the ramp by employing a similar
concept, with more natural and less labor-intensive
methods.
“By using large river rocks with a mixture of fish—
compliant gravel, we’d be able to slow the water
down, so it wouldn’t impact so aggressively,” Whit-
son said. “When it hits the rocks, they stop its en-
ergy. When I was a kid, playing on the beach, there
were a lot of these big, round rocks in the stream-
beds. With the energy of the water that ran through
there, those big, round rocks were what was exposed,
and they stayed there for years.”
Whitson again touted the lack of expense, while
repeating his goals of getting these design plans re-
viewed by strategic planning committee in April.
Whitson told Blaisdell the project would likely re—
quire 10 cubic yards of fish-friendly gravel, plus 3 to
4 yards of “big, round rocks.”