People browse a table of supplies in a covered wooden pavilion with a big sign mounted reading Finnriver Farm & Cidery.

Community

September 19, 2023

Summer Sketching at Finnriver

By The Art Toolkit Team

Community

September 19, 2023

Summer Sketching at Finnriver

By The Art Toolkit Team

This local farm and cidery is a beautiful location for plein air sketching and trialing new supplies!

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 Artist

September 6, 2023

Europe in Watercolor

By The Art Toolkit Team

Demos

September 5, 2023

Starting and Finishing a Sketch with Nishant Jain

By The Art Toolkit Team

Community

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

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 Artist

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

June 20, 2023

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

May 31, 2023

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 Artist

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

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