June 19, 2024

Triad Template Tips with Lisa Spangler

Develop your color intuition for on-location sketching!

By The Art Toolkit Team

Three vibrant color wheel circles with a black protractor.

This is a live recording from our Triad Template Tips live demo with artist Lisa Spangler from June 19th, 2024. In this demo, Lisa shared suggestions for mixing triads, many ways to use our new Triad Template to plot colors, and tips for setting up your palette. In her words, Lisa promises “a spec-trum-tacular time!”

All About Triads

This demo also celebrates the launch of our limited-edition Triad Palette! Working with our mutual friend and expert paintmaker Kelly Hollstrom, founder of Letter Sparrow, Lisa curated a set of four triads to align with each season of the year. We designed a special Pocket Palette in a beautiful teal blue with a custom pan arrangement of Mini Pans and Small Mixing Pans. The custom lid design features the clean, geometric linework of an overlapping triad.

two metal palettes show designs on the front and signatures/logos on the back.
Geometric linework on the lid; collaborators’ signatures on the back.
Knolled supplies show an open palette with paint, an insert card, a drawstring bag, and a black circular protractor.

We hope you enjoy this live demo and to get excited about exploring triads, and remember that it’s here as a resource to you once your Triad Template arrives in the mail!

About Lisa

A former software engineer, CTO, and current website designer, Lisa Spangler carves out time between working to get out and paint the natural world around her in her home state of Texas, from leaves to cacti to mushrooms. Through her art and travels, she aims to capture that feeling of awe and wonder on paper and spread that joy to others

Over the past few years, Lisa has shared her enthusiasm for watercolor and design with the Art Toolkit community through demos, a workshop, and as an Art Toolkit Ambassador. We look forward to having her back for another live demo with Art Toolkit and hope to see you there next week! Link in bio.

Learn more about Lisa’s work and see her art on her website and on Instagram.
An artist sites on a rock, dipping a paintbrush in a Pocket Palette.

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