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

Inspiration

December 6, 2023

Our Team Reviews Personal Artistic Goals

By The Art Toolkit Team

Let’s look at the artistic goals for 2023 set by Art Toolkit staff in the new year!

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

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

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

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

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

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

By The Art Toolkit Team

Community
Classes

April 7, 2023

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

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

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