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Watercolor artwork depicting a street scene with traditional two-story buildings featuring colorful awnings and balcony windows. Motorcycles are parked outside, and the atmosphere conveys a warm, nostalgic feel. The date and artist's signature are included at the bottom.
  • Featured Artists
  • Inspiration

September 25, 2024

Sketching and Art Experiments: Trials and Tribulations

By Thainlin Tay
Watercolor artwork depicting a street scene with traditional two-story buildings featuring colorful awnings and balcony windows. Motorcycles are parked outside, and the atmosphere conveys a warm, nostalgic feel. The date and artist's signature are included at the bottom.
  • Featured Artists
  • Inspiration

September 25, 2024

Sketching and Art Experiments: Trials and Tribulations

By Thainlin Tay

Art Toolkit Ambassador Thainlin Tay explores new approaches to perspective while attending an urban sketching event in Malaysia this summer.

A person is sketching and painting autumn leaves in a notebook while seated outdoors.
  • Demos
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September 11, 2024

Choosing a Travel Brush with Symi Jackson

By The Art Toolkit Team
A group of people mingling at an outdoor event near a marina. One woman with curly hair, wearing a maroon t-shirt and a mask under her chin, smiles as she holds a notepad. In the background, others are engaged in conversation with boats visible in the distance.
  • Events
  • Community

September 10, 2024

Presenting at the Wooden Boat Festival

By The Art Toolkit Team
A cyclist in a bright orange helmet and yellow shirt smiles while posing next to a sign for Pacific Coast Highway 1 South. Their bike, equipped with orange panniers, is parked nearby. The background features a hilly landscape under cloudy skies.
  • Featured Artists
  • Inspiration

September 3, 2024

Put Some Color in Your Cycling Adventure Journal

By The Art Toolkit Team
A vibrant watercolor painting featuring a gradient sky with shades of purple, pink, and orange, arching into a gentle rainbow. The dark silhouette of a treeline forms the foreground.
  • Community
  • Featured Artists

August 26, 2024

Painting in England and Ireland

By The Art Toolkit Team
A flat layout displaying a grid of small, square tiles in vibrant pink and orange colors, with some tiles arranged on a black tray. The background shows a fabric with blue threads.
  • Demos

August 21, 2024

All About Play with Alexis Joseph

By The Art Toolkit Team
A compact watercolor set with a blue case containing vibrant paint squares, alongside a cream-colored drawstring pouch featuring a rainbow design.
  • Supplies

August 19, 2024

The Rainglow Palette

By The Art Toolkit Team
A watercolor illustration of Lime Kiln Point Lighthouse on San Juan Island. The lighthouse features a red roof and green lantern, surrounded by grassy shoreline and blue waters under a clear sky. The date "5.10.24" is noted in the bottom corner.
  • Inspiration
  • Supplies

August 5, 2024

Sketching in the San Juans

By Maria Coryell-Martin
A white camper van parked in a lush green forest surrounded by tall pine trees. A person wearing a hat sits on the ground near the van, enjoying the outdoors. Sunlight filters through the trees, illuminating the serene scene.
  • Supplies
  • Inspiration

July 31, 2024

AdVANture Art!

By Lisa Spangler
customizing a palette
  • Events

July 24, 2024

Photos from Sketcher Fest

By The Art Toolkit Team
an open tin of sketching supplies lays in the foreground with binoculars on a rocky mountain peak
  • Supplies
  • Featured Artists

July 23, 2024

Trail Tiles by Trailbound Sketches

By The Art Toolkit Team
A green sketchbook and a black pen are positioned on a wooden surface, accompanied by a beige tote bag featuring the "Sketcher Fest Edmonds" logo. The sketchbook shows a landscape drawing, and a green pencil case is also visible in the background.
  • Supplies
  • Featured Artists

July 19, 2024

The Sketcher Fest Palette

By The Art Toolkit Team
A collection of watercolor supplies including two palettes filled with vibrant paints, a bowl of water, a small container of cream, cotton swabs, and a blue cloth, all arranged neatly on a white background.
  • Demos
  • Supplies

July 15, 2024

Palette Cleaning and Care

By The Art Toolkit Team
an open sketchbook of moody clouds over a toolkit and sketching supplies
  • Community

July 3, 2024

Sketching with Robin

By The Art Toolkit Team
Two artists in warm black clothes sit on a field of snow, painting in sketchbooks, with an evergreen tree in the background.
  • Community

July 2, 2024

In the Forest and in the Snow

By The Art Toolkit Team
An array of sketchbooks lay on a picnic table, showing colorful paintings of an urban environment.
  • Inspiration

June 28, 2024

All Paint: No Pencil, No Pen

By The Art Toolkit Team
A watercolor of lavender propped up among lavender plants.
  • Inspiration

June 24, 2024

Capturing Springtime Adventures: Sketching and Sipping in Napa with My Art Toolkit

By Sophia Trinh
Three vibrant color wheel circles with a black protractor.
  • Demos

June 19, 2024

Triad Template Tips with Lisa Spangler

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open watercolor sketchbook with various paint tubes strewn about.
  • Demos

June 12, 2024

Warm and Cool Colors

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open watercolor palette with a circular protractor in front.
  • Supplies

June 12, 2024

The Triad Palette

By The Art Toolkit Team
A hand holds a watercolor of pink and magenta flowers.
  • Community
  • Classes

June 10, 2024

Spring Workshop Participants Share Their Art

By The Art Toolkit Team
A watercolor of sailboats moored offshore from a tree filled landscape, with a blue sky overhead.
  • Inspiration

June 4, 2024

First Week of Direct Watercolor

By The Art Toolkit Team & Maria Coryell-Martin
Four people lined up in a warm-toned room, wearing coats and hats and fumbling with sketchbooks.
  • Inspiration
  • Behind the Scenes

May 22, 2024

Neighborhood Four Square

By The Art Toolkit Team
A view down a green and brown river with towering canyon walls, and a red canoe.
  • Inspiration

May 8, 2024

Canoeing in Texas

By Maria Coryell-Martin
An open sketchbook with a market sketch in pen, and a market in the background.
  • Demos

May 8, 2024

Travel Sketching with Thainlin Tay

By The Art Toolkit Team
A sketchbook lays clipped open with a pen sketch of a temple on a hill with the title Wat Saket and an open pocket palette beside it.

May 1, 2024

Sketching in Thailand

By The Art Toolkit Team
Three circular watercolors of various views of the earth, and an open watercolor palette.
  • Supplies

April 22, 2024

Round Watercolor Paper

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open sketchbook journal shows a kitten and stacks of dishes.
  • Demos

April 18, 2024

Journaling Moments of Joy with Jane Maday

By The Art Toolkit Team
A sketch with bold black outlines and colorful stones.
  • Community
  • Classes

April 15, 2024

Winter Workshop Recap

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open sketchbook and toolkit lay on a log next to a monocular, sit pad, and backpack as someone walks past the log.
  • Demos
  • Inspiration

April 11, 2024

Nature Journaling at the Beach

By The Art Toolkit Team
an open toolkit and open paint-filled palette with a zig-zag sketchbook with sketches of the sun and the moon all laying on the grass
  • Inspiration

April 9, 2024

Sketching the Total Solar Eclipse

By The Art Toolkit Team
A sketchbook lays open, showing watercolor paintings of mushrooms and color swatches, on top of a blue Art Toolkit, on the ground with leaves scattered about.
  • Inspiration

March 29, 2024

Sketching Mushrooms with Lisa Spangler

By Lisa Spangler
A sketchbook shows an ink and watercolor sketch of an interestingly shaped lemon, with the text The Funky Lemon. The lemon itself is on a tray next to the sketchbook, cut open.
  • Demos

March 27, 2024

Nature Journaling with John Muir Laws

By The Art Toolkit Team
A view through a shop window, showing watercolor palettes on mini easels.
  • Behind the Scenes

March 5, 2024

We Moved Downtown!

By The Art Toolkit Team
Sketchbook page of circular objects and an open folio palette.
  • Inspiration

February 27, 2024

Rediscovering Harmony: A Journey of Balance and Symbolism

By Sophia Trinh
A watercolor depicting a watercolor palette with many bright colors, a water brush, and a pen.
  • Community

February 23, 2024

Palette Sketches by You!

By The Art Toolkit Team
Scattered supplies including paint tubes, a label maker, scissors, open sketchbook, and vibrant paint-filled Demi Palette on a white background.
  • Demos
  • Supplies

February 16, 2024

Getting to Know Your Palette

By The Art Toolkit Team
A watercolor of brownstone buildings with a biker riding in front.
  • Demos

February 7, 2024

City Sketching with Gavin Snider

By The Art Toolkit Team
Someone holds up a grid of gold, green, and blue forest sketches in front of a forest.
  • Demos

February 1, 2024

Varying Your Viewfinder with Jill Richie

By The Art Toolkit Team
Scraps of paper, a palette, tubes of paint, a brush, and a pencil on a white table. Papers show thumbnails of skies and other color mixes.
  • Demos

January 17, 2024

A Series of Skies

By The Art Toolkit Team
A watercolor palette sits on a watercolor paper, crisscrossed with masking tape.
  • Inspiration

January 15, 2024

365 Skies Project

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open sketchbook and paint palette with a watercolor drawing of an aerial view of a winding mountain road and text beneath.
  • Demos

January 11, 2024

Daily Art Practice with April Wu

By The Art Toolkit Team
A wooden cafe table covered in mugs, art toolkits, sketchbooks and palettes.
  • Inspiration

January 9, 2024

Coffee Shop Microadventure

By The Art Toolkit Team
Man sits on a bench sketching in an open indoor-outdoor brick-floored space filled with plants.
  • Inspiration

December 22, 2023

Artist Goals for 2024

By The Art Toolkit Team
A table covered in an open sketchbook, sketching supplies, and reference images of a misty mountain pass.
  • Behind the Scenes
  • Classes

December 18, 2023

Watercolor Fundamentals: Our First Extended Course Was a Success!

By Maria Coryell-Martin
A woman in a hat and puffy coat talks and gestures while holding a notebook open to a sketch of underwater creatures.
  • Inspiration

December 6, 2023

Our Team Reviews Personal Artistic Goals

By The Art Toolkit Team
Paint-filled Folio Palette, tubes of paint, a leaf, brush, and swatch card fanned out on a white background.
  • Inspiration

December 5, 2023

Leaves and Shadows

By Lisa Spangler
exploded view of a toolkit and contents on a yellow background
  • Behind the Scenes

November 28, 2023

More Staff Toolkits!

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open sketchbook shows a watercolor of a plant.
  • Demos

November 17, 2023

Falling for Fall with Lisa Spangler

By The Art Toolkit Team
an arch of painted moons with a bloomy moody sky over an ocean scene with a mountain and a whale just beneath the surface.
  • Demos

November 10, 2023

Metallic Moons with Sophia Trinh

By The Art Toolkit Team
Portraits of a pointy-eared person on an iPad and in watercolor on a page side by side in purples and greens.
  • Inspiration

October 26, 2023

A Spooky Portrait: Digital Art and Watercolor

By Cole Morreale & The Art Toolkit Team
Tubes of paint and swatch cards lined in an arch.
  • Supplies

October 12, 2023

Explore Metallic Paints

By The Art Toolkit Team
Watercolor paper with colorful illustrations of wildflowers, shown on a desk with a watercolor palette.
  • Demos

October 9, 2023

Wildflower Watercolors with Sushma Hegde

By The Art Toolkit Team
A hand sketches the ice field with a pocket palette on location.
  • Inspiration

October 4, 2023

Retracing Grandma Lu’s Steps and Sketches

By Max Romey & The Art Toolkit Team
People browse a table of supplies in a covered wooden pavilion with a big sign mounted reading Finnriver Farm & Cidery.
  • Community
  • Events

September 19, 2023

Summer Sketching at Finnriver

By The Art Toolkit Team
A hand holds a small, square watercolor sketch of forested hills with a blurry palette and other sketches in the background.
  • Demos

September 15, 2023

Landscape Trio Demonstration

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open sketchbook of a loose coastal view from above with an open Folio Palette and water cup.
  • Featured Artists

September 6, 2023

Europe in Watercolor

By The Art Toolkit Team
a black and white sketch of a crowd of tiny people at an urban concert
  • Demos

September 5, 2023

Starting and Finishing a Sketch with Nishant Jain

By The Art Toolkit Team
An assortment of watercolor supplies is displayed on a wooden table, and in metal grid shelves above.
  • Community
  • Events

September 5, 2023

Art Toolkit at THING

By The Art Toolkit Team
A paint-filled Folio Palette, swatch card of greens and blues, and a thumbnail sketch of a pine tree on a wooden table.
  • Inspiration

August 30, 2023

A Desert Girl Sketches at the Lake

By Lisa Spangler
An open laptop shows a page ,titled Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, is staged on a desk with an open Demi Palette, drawstring bag, water brush, and a viney plant behind it.
  • Community

August 14, 2023

The Draw in Nature Giveaway

By The Art Toolkit Team
A kid lays on their stomach in the woods, overlooking the ocean with art supplies around them.
  • Community

August 9, 2023

Toolkits and Supplies for Kids

By Maria Coryell-Martin & The Art Toolkit Team
Art supplies and a watercolor painting of a map of Vietnam on a small round woven table with other woven furniture in the background.
  • Inspiration

August 2, 2023

Local Café Outing: Saigon to Seattle

By Sophia Trinh
Someone sketches while sitting in a rowboat on the open water.
  • Supplies

August 2, 2023

Sketching at the Maritime Center

By The Art Toolkit Team
Ziplock bags of sketching supplies lay on a mossy background with an open sketchbook showing comic-style pages of a character in the wilderness, and a paint-filled Folio Palette.
  • Featured Artists

July 19, 2023

Packing for the Continental Divide Trail

By Natalie Wetzig & The Art Toolkit Team
A 4x4 grid of ink and watercolor sketches of urban scenes with a white circle with text reading, "Sketcher Fest Edmonds."
  • Demos

July 19, 2023

Sketcher Fest with Gabi Campanario and April Wu

By The Art Toolkit Team
An artist adds swatches of color to an open sketchbook with watercolor palette and toolkit stacked on their lap in a car.
  • Inspiration

July 19, 2023

Color Mixes and Thumbnails from Washington to California

By Nakaia Macomber-Millman
With two hands, someone holds out a sketch of a forested creek with the scene in the background, aligned perfectly with the painting; an open toolkit of supplies is laid out in front of them.
  • Inspiration

July 5, 2023

What’s in My Duotone Ocean Art Toolkit?

By Max Romey & The Art Toolkit Team
An open paint-filled palette with a brush and notebook open on a wooden table.
  • Demos

June 21, 2023

TRC USA’s TRAVEL & SKETCH Collaboration and Watercolor Exploration with April Wu

By April Wu
A page of square and rectangular watercolor sketches of houses, paths, trees, and mugs in soft colors.
  • Community
  • Classes

June 20, 2023

Late Spring Workshop Participants Share Their Art

By The Art Toolkit Team
Uncapped tubes of paint lined up alongside swatches of colors, labeled with the names of the respective paints with a white background.
  • Supplies

June 15, 2023

New in Our Shop: Gouache Paints!

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open A5 Art Toolkit full of sketching supplies with an open paint-filled Pocket Palette rests on a rock next to a cluster of cacti with vibrant pink blooms.
  • Inspiration

June 1, 2023

What’s in My Duotone Desert Art Toolkit?

By Lisa Spangler
Watercolor painting of a rocky coast with tall trees and a grey-blue sky.
  • Community
  • Classes

May 31, 2023

Early Spring Workshop Participants Share Their Art

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open sketchbook with a page filled with doodles and a black background, a paint-filled palette, and two pens.
  • Inspiration

May 23, 2023

Start Doodling with the Fill-Your-Page Challenge

By Cole Morreale
A vibrant sketch of a rocky shoreline rests on rocks, overlooking said shoreline beyond.
  • Demos

May 19, 2023

Painting Waves with Maggie Sutrov

By The Art Toolkit Team
A watercolor painting with a tennis court in the foreground and cityscape in the background.
  • Featured Artists

May 18, 2023

Springtime Artist Features

By The Art Toolkit Team
Thumbnail watercolor sketch of a seaside cove.
  • Demos

May 8, 2023

Plein Air Watercolors with Opus

By The Art Toolkit Team
A person holds out an open paint-filled folio palette with a bike and storefront in the background that reads "Herkimer Coffee: Coffee Roasting Co. Est. 2003."
  • Community

May 3, 2023

Local Café Outing: A Date with Myself and My Palette

By Sophia Trinh
A variety of sketchbooks lie open on cement, open to pages showing pink and purple flowers, trees, and white buildings.
  • Community
  • Events

April 25, 2023

Sketch & Stroll at Fort Worden

By The Art Toolkit Team
A table covered in supplies: camera gear, books, painting supplies, and a sketchbook open to a drawing of mushrooms and bay laurel.
  • Demos

April 20, 2023

Field Sketching and Observation with Robin Lee Carlson

By The Art Toolkit Team
TODO
  • Community
  • Classes

April 7, 2023

Winter Workshop Participants Share Their Art

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open sketchbook with a sketch of a gas station, partially colored in, with various black pens, a set of car keys, an open Folio Palette lay on a white background.
  • Inspiration

March 30, 2023

Blind Contour Sketching on a Road Trip

By Nakaia Macomber-Millman
Sketching supplies that include a paint-filled Folio Palette, pencil case, and paintbrushes lay on a rocky surface.
  • Demos

March 22, 2023

Backcountry Watercolor with Claire Giordano

By The Art Toolkit Team
Exploded view of the contents of Renée Baribault’s Pocket Art Toolkit
  • Behind the Scenes

March 20, 2023

What Do Our Staff Carry in Their Toolkits?

By The Art Toolkit Team
A hand holds out a small black box with golden lettering, Oblique Strategies, with art supplies and drawings strewn across the hardwood floor in the background.
  • Inspiration

March 9, 2023

Exploring Artistic Inspiration with Oblique Strategies

By The Art Toolkit Team
An artist holds up a small notebook with a sketch of the surroundings.
  • Featured Artists

March 7, 2023

Inspiring Women: Artist Features

By The Art Toolkit Team
An open Icy Fjords Palette filled with ten paints, a drawstring bag, and a card with the “Icy Fjords” watercolor art on it, on a white background.
  • Supplies

March 6, 2023

The Icy Fjords Palette

By The Art Toolkit Team
An illustration of three dogs, showing only their heads, with a banner below reading: Moxie, Jose, Rudy.
  • Demos

February 9, 2023

Pet Portraits with Latasha Greene

By The Art Toolkit Team
Four different-colored Blackwing pencils, tucked into the narrow, vertical pockets of a black A5 Art Toolkit.
  • Supplies

January 30, 2023

Blackwing Pencils for Sketching and Writing

By Maria Coryell-Martin
A variety of travel brushes fanned out with a long, slim brush in the foreground.
  • Supplies

January 26, 2023

Announcing Two New Travel Brushes

By The Art Toolkit Team
A Pocket Palette and Folio Palette laying on a table, next to two well-used sketchbooks.
  • Demos

January 24, 2023

Sketchbook Kaigi with April Wu

By The Art Toolkit Team
Artist (off-screen) holds out a Pocket Palette, water brush, and small sketchbook with two vibrant dots of watercolor (golden yellow and bright red). A firey-red maple tree of the same red is in the background.
  • Inspiration

January 12, 2023

Nature Spots: Lisa’s Quick and Fun Daily Practice

By The Art Toolkit Team
Five members of the Art Toolkit team sit with legs dangling off the edge of a concrete wall, smiling with sketchbooks.
  • Inspiration

January 3, 2023

Art Toolkit Staff Share Goals for the New Year

By The Art Toolkit Team
Close-up view of watercolor artist Gavin Snider’s sketchbook, with a painting of a city street.
  • Community
  • Inspiration

January 2, 2023

Artist Goals for 2023

By The Art Toolkit Team
Art Toolkit accessories: X-Shot Cup, mini binder clip, Pocket Mister, Refill Syringe, and kneadable eraser.
  • Supplies

December 14, 2022

Time to Accessorize!

By The Art Toolkit Team
Holiday wreath cards by Lisa Spangler.
  • Demos

December 7, 2022

Holiday Card Making with Lisa Spangler

By The Art Toolkit Team & Lisa Spangler
A Folio Palette lays open while a hand sets a paint-filled palette inside.
  • Supplies

December 2, 2022

Create Your Dream Toolkit and Palette in Four Easy Steps!

By The Art Toolkit Team
A Hahnemühle ZigZag book expanded to show a series of sketches.

November 21, 2022

Telling a Story with ZigZag Sketchbooks

By The Art Toolkit Team
Fall leaves scattered on watercolor paper with a contour drawing of the leaves and splash of watercolor.
  • Inspiration

November 8, 2022

Color Splashes and Contour Drawing

By The Art Toolkit Team
Close-up view of granulation effect in watercolor pigments: Letter Sparrow’s Kelly Green, Sunflower, Italian Orange, and Violet Ochre.
  • Technique

November 3, 2022

Exploring Watercolor Granulation

By The Art Toolkit Team
A white card with the words: “I want to wake every morning into love, where love is the question of how I’m going to help you get free, where that means whatever it needs to mean.” by Saretta Morgan.
  • Inspiration

October 25, 2022

Expedition Press Poetry Prompts

By The Art Toolkit Team
Aerial perspective of a table laden with vials of powdered mushroom, color swatches, and a blank color wheel.
  • Demos

October 19, 2022

Learning About Mushroom Watercolor Pigments with Julie Beeler

By The Art Toolkit Team
An assortment of Rosemary & Co travel brushes artfully arranged sticking out of a flower bouquet.
  • Supplies

October 12, 2022

Which Rosemary & Co Travel Brush is Right for You?

By The Art Toolkit Team
Gestural sketch of red-winged blackbirds by Maria Coryell-Martin
  • Technique

October 3, 2022

Gestural Sketches

By The Art Toolkit Team
A5 and Pocket Art Toolkits shown personalized with a shoulder strap and embroidered patch.
  • Supplies

September 30, 2022

Personalizing Your Toolkit

By The Art Toolkit Team
Two sizes of Art Toolkits shown
  • Supplies

September 28, 2022

A Tour of Our Toolkits

By The Art Toolkit Team
Hood Canal Bridge sketch by Maria Coryell-Martin.
  • Inspiration

September 19, 2022

Road Trip Sketching Tips

By The Art Toolkit Team
Drawing of a banana using both hands by Nakaia Macomber-Millman.
  • Inspiration

September 14, 2022

Sketching with Both Hands

By The Art Toolkit Team
Bunny sketch by Maria Coryell-Martin.
  • Technique

September 7, 2022

Helpful Tips for Painting Fur

By The Art Toolkit Team
The Grow Untamed Palette arranced on a marble table with a Rosemary & Co brush and eraser.
  • Inspiration

August 30, 2022

Grow Untamed with Ambassador Sophia Trinh

By Sophia Trinh
An upside down sketch of a jar of pens and pencils by Nakaia Macomber-Millman
  • Inspiration
  • Technique

August 24, 2022

Drawing Upside Down

By The Art Toolkit Team
Mountain painting with waterproof pens by Sophia Trinh
  • Inspiration

August 19, 2022

How Waterproof Pens help Sophia Trinh Combat Imposter Syndrome

By The Art Toolkit Team & Sophia Trinh
First spring wildflower watercolor by Nakaia Macomber-Millman
  • Inspiration

August 10, 2022

Do You Know Where You Are?

By The Art Toolkit Team
Drawing tools, arragned pleasantly.
  • Supplies

August 3, 2022

Our Sketching Tools in Action

By The Art Toolkit Team
Nikki Frumkin mountain golden hour watercolor.
  • Inspiration

July 27, 2022

Capturing the Golden Hour with Nikki Frumkin

By The Art Toolkit Team
Empty compact watercolor palettes, shown in three sizes.
  • Technique
  • Supplies

July 19, 2022

Customizing Your Palette

By The Art Toolkit Team
Four different types of fountain pen nibs and converters arranged on a textured red background.
  • Supplies
  • Technique

July 14, 2022

How to Use a Pen Cartridge Converter

By The Art Toolkit Team
A peek at Maria Coryell-Martin’s sketchbooks over the years.
  • Inspiration

July 8, 2022

Developing Your Own Style

By The Art Toolkit Team
Lisa Spangler’s Explore Palette.
  • Technique

June 30, 2022

How Ambassador Lisa Spangler Gets to Know a Palette

By The Art Toolkit Team
Paint-filled traveler’s palettes laying on a table next to their cotton bags.
  • Demos

June 24, 2022

TRAVEL & SKETCH Virtual Trip with Maria

By The Art Toolkit Team
Selected illustrations from the Art Toolkit Adventure Checklist.
  • Inspiration

June 17, 2022

Overnight Art Adventure Checklist

By The Art Toolkit Team
Hahnemühle paper-making machinery.
  • Demos
  • Supplies

June 16, 2022

Paper Makes a Difference with Joe Domeier

By The Art Toolkit Team
A misty mountain landscape by Sophia Trinh.
  • Inspiration

May 31, 2022

Saltwater Painting with Sophia Trinh

By The Art Toolkit Team
Texas Coneflower sketch by Lisa Spangler.
  • Community

May 25, 2022

Painting Coneflowers with Lisa Spangler

By The Art Toolkit Team
Feather sketch by Maria Coryell-Martin.
  • Demos

April 8, 2022

Sketching Feathers

By The Art Toolkit Team
A hand holds a paper cut watercolor flowers, with a Pocket Palette filled with watercolor paints in the background.
  • Demos

April 1, 2022

Tap into Creativity with Anna Brones

By The Art Toolkit Team
Valentine's day cards in watercolor of hearts and flowers laying on a red table with a Pocket Palette with various red paints in it.
  • Demos

February 10, 2022

Valentine’s Day Cards with Lisa Spangler

By The Art Toolkit Team
Draw Your World by Samantha Dion Baker.
  • Demos

May 7, 2021

Draw Your World with Samantha Dion Baker

By The Art Toolkit Team
A watercolor triad illustration next to a Demi Palette filled with 4 watercolor paints, and a pen.
  • Demos

May 4, 2021

Mixing Triads with Lisa Spangler

By The Art Toolkit Team
Painting for live demo by Claire Giordano.
  • Demos

March 11, 2021

Simplifying Mountains with Claire Giordano

By The Art Toolkit Team
Mike Daikubara’s Pocket Palette, with a small sponge nestled inside.
  • Inspiration

February 18, 2021

Seeing Palettes in a Whole New Way

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Images from The Sketchnoting Handbook by Mike Rohde.
  • Demos

February 12, 2021

Sketchnoting with Mike Rohde

By The Art Toolkit Team
Cover of the book Drawing with Children.

February 5, 2021

Drawing with Children

By The Art Toolkit Team
Top-down view of the Demi Calligraphy Palette, showing a hand holding a brush and color swatches.
  • Demos
  • Supplies

December 12, 2020

New Collaborations with Jess Greenleaf

By The Art Toolkit Team
Lettering practice after a demo with Amanda Reid.
  • Demos

December 12, 2020

Brush Lettering with Amanda Reid

By The Art Toolkit Team
A colorful stack of inspiring books recommended by Art Toolkit.
  • Inspiration

November 27, 2020

Art Toolkit on Bookshop.org

By Maria Coryell-Martin
  • Technique

November 16, 2020

Tips for Painting Evergreen Trees

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Fall leaves watercolor using negative shapes by Maria Coryell-Martin.
  • Technique

October 2, 2020

Negative Shapes: Autumn Leaves

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Watercolor sketch of snowy mountain peaks and an icy lake by Jill Richie.
  • Featured Artists

October 2, 2020

Artist and Archeologist Jill Richie

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Super-fluffy pancakes sketch by Mike Daikubara.
  • Demos

October 1, 2020

Sketch Now, Think Later with Mike Daikubara

By The Art Toolkit Team
A swirl of colors shows the mixing posibilities of the Ultimate Mixing Palette.
  • Demos

September 25, 2020

Sketching with Barbara Luel

By The Art Toolkit Team
Max Romey sketches by the light of his headlamp high in the mountains.
  • Featured Artists

September 12, 2020

Max Romey

By Maria Coryell-Martin
A swirl of colors shows the mixing posibilities of the Ultimate Mixing Palette.
  • Demos

September 11, 2020

Ultimate Sketching Palette with Jane Blundell

By The Art Toolkit Team
Sketch of the Villa di Maser building by Palladio by Liz Steel.
  • Demos

August 15, 2020

Sketching Architecture with Liz Steel

By The Art Toolkit Team
Mixing Palette with three large pans for mixing watercolors, and a Demi Palette with paint-filled pans on top of a color study.
  • Supplies

August 7, 2020

Mixing Palette

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Rack with a range of brushes in Maria Coryell-Martin’s home studio.
  • Supplies
  • Behind the Scenes

August 6, 2020

Studio Tour

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Painting of feathers using white gouache by Maria Coryell-Martin.
  • Technique

July 20, 2020

White Gouache

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Bird sketch by John Muir Laws.
  • Demos

July 18, 2020

Sketching Birds with John Muir Laws

By The Art Toolkit Team
Brush pen painting by Che Lopez.
  • Demos

July 17, 2020

Brush Pen Sketching with Che Lopez

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Local Color book by Mimi Robinson alongside our Garden in Bloom Palette.
  • Inspiration

July 10, 2020

Summer Reading List: Local Color

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Botanical illustration by Lara Gastinger.
  • Demos

June 26, 2020

Botanical Illustrator Lara Gastinger

By The Art Toolkit Team
Biker painting by Russ Roca.
  • Demos

June 12, 2020

Russ Roca of Path Less Pedaled

By The Art Toolkit Team
Flower paintings by Chelsea Ward.
  • Demos

May 29, 2020

Live Demo with Chelsea Ward

By The Art Toolkit Team
Watercolor painting from Che Lopez demo.
  • Demos

May 22, 2020

Live Demo with Che Lopez

By The Art Toolkit Team
Cat painting by Suhita Shirodkar.
  • Demos

May 15, 2020

Live Demo with Suhita Shirodkar

By The Art Toolkit Team
Art Toolkit with Rosemary & Co travel brushes.
  • Demos

May 9, 2020

Live Demo with Symi Jackson

By The Art Toolkit Team
Street scene painting by Paul Wang.
  • Demos

May 1, 2020

Live Demo with Paul Wang

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Watercolor painting from Jess Greenleaf demo.
  • Demos

April 29, 2020

Nature Pigments with Jess Greenleaf

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Watercolor painting from Jane Blundell demo.
  • Demos

April 18, 2020

Exploring Triads with Jane Blundell

By Maria Coryell-Martin
Watercolor painting from Katharina Stoll demo.
  • Demos

April 16, 2020

Tiny Paintings with Katharina Stoll

By Maria Coryell-Martin