November 28, 2023

More Staff Toolkits!

We have amazing staff members who all have diverse artistic interests and use their Art Toolkits in different ways.

By The Art Toolkit Team

exploded view of a toolkit and contents on a yellow background

Today, we’re excited to introduce you to Shop Assistant Lena Valentine, and share some of her artwork and the contents of her Art Toolkit!

exploded view of a green toolkit with its contents all alligned on a yellow background.
Lena’s Duotone Forest Pocket Art Toolkit, exploded view
A posed portrait of a person with a teal sweater, brown hair and bangs.
Lena Valentine

Shop Assistant Lena has a Duotone Forest Pocket Art Toolkit, which she has been steadily adding to over the last few months.

Lena’s Pocket Art Toolkit includes our standard supplies, plus:

About Lena

Lena’s art journey began when she was 13 years old and browsing YouTube tutorials. She started by drawing people, exploring various mediums like acrylic paint and gouache, and later expanded into digital art.

Lena received her BFA in Design from Cornish College and joined the Art Toolkit shop team shortly after. Working at Art Toolkit has inspired her to add watercolor to her media repertoire! She shared some of her art with us, including a ballpoint pen piece of our beloved Fort Worden State Park that took five pens to complete and a charcoal portrait of the base of a pumpkin; both of these pieces are 32" x 24" drawings which contrast with her smaller watercolor and gouache bookmarks and sketches.

Blue pen drawing of a shoreline with grasses and rocks in the foreground and a headland in the background.
Fort Worden, 32" x 24" ballpoint pen by Lena Valentine
A black and white sketch of the underside of a pumpkin with water droplets and veiny details.
Pumpkin, 32" x 24" charcoal by Lena Valentine

Lena has also been experimenting more with gouache and watercolors, and was happy to share some of her more recent works with us, too!

Four bookmarks lined up on a white background with different designs: blueberries, a frog under cattails, a sunset, and a ghost holding a lantern.
Watercolor bookmarks by Lena Valentine
Sketches of cacti next to a pocket art toolkit and open palette with paint.
A brown watercolor sketch of little cats in an ink bottle.
A watercolor sketch of a transluscent pink and orange jam jar next to a more opaque, gouache replica.
Watercolor and gouache sketches by Lena Valentine
A sketch of a cracked egg.

Thank you for sharing your work with us, Lena, and we’re so happy to have you on the team!

Meet Other Staff Members

Check out our previous blog post What Do Our Staff Carry in Their Toolkits? for more!
An artist sites on a rock, dipping a paintbrush in a Pocket Palette.

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