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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.”