Introducing Holiday Sets
This year, we teamed up with artists and paintmakers to bring you two special offerings for the holidays!
By The Art Toolkit Team
As a special for the holidays, we’re offering two Holiday Sets for the artists in your lives. Both are collaborations with friends who have inspired us over the years and we hope they may bring you or your loved ones joy through art.
The Trailbound Set
We’re excited to announce a special set of adventure art supplies, a perfect complement of small supplies for your adventures from high mountain peaks to urban parks and cafés.
The Trailbound Set is a limited-edition collaboration between Art Toolkit and Trailbound Sketches that features a Red Demi Palette engraved with custom artwork by artist-adventurer Max Romey in a drawstring bag, along with Trail Tiles and a Mini Aquash Water Brush. Max is the Founder, Artist, and Director at Trailbound Sketches.
Each Demi Palette includes eight Mini Pans ready to fill with your favorite paints and arranged in an arch over one Small Mixing Pan. Team Trailbound also put together a special folded bookmark insert with swatches of Max Romey’s top eight recommended colors for inspiration to get started. We offer his favorite colors in Daniel Smith 15ml tubes: visit our paints page to pick eight!
Trailbound Sets fit perfectly in both Pocket and A5 Art Toolkits or secure the palette, tin, and brush with a 4'' Silicone Cross Band and stow them in a pocket, purse, or backpack!
Each limited-edition Holiday Set is available while supplies last.
A Custom Engraving for the Demi Palette Lid
For this project, we co-designed a special bright Red Demi Palette with a custom pan arrangement of 8 Mini Pans in an arch over a Small Mixing Pan in the center.
The custom lid design features a hiking boot footprint sketch by Max Romey, symbolizing Trailbound Sketches’ North Star as an impact documentary studio and their mission to paint it forward. Inspired by Max’s experiences in the field and on the trail, where he sees the impacts of other people’s footprints, we hope this Demi Palette can help remind fellow creatives to paint it forward and be mindful of how our footprints impact the places we love.
The bootprint, engraved on the front of the palette and printed on the cotton drawstring bag, is from one of the shoes Max retrieved from Katmai, Alaska, during the filming of Footprints on Katmai, where he collected, stamped, and sketched every piece of footwear found while supporting the Ocean Plastics Recovery Project (OPR). Trailbound Sketches chose this specific footprint because it came from a particular shoe that reminded Max of his years as a trail runner.
Recommended Paint List by Max Romey
About Trailbound Sketches
Trailbound Sketches is a production studio and community founded by Alaskan artist and filmmaker Max Romey. Supported by a small team of adventurous creatives, Team Trailbound is united by a passion for education, environmental stewardship, and creative storytelling. Max has been our friend for many years, and we have loved sharing his artwork and adventure stories with our community as an Art Toolkit Ambassador and workshop instructor. We are thrilled to continue following along and sharing where his creative path is leading him!
Learn more about the team and explore Max’s watercolor tutorial series on their website.
Draw Your World Set
We’re thrilled to reintroduce the Draw Your World Palette, a special limited-edition collaboration, for the holidays. This unique palette was created with artist, illustrator, and author Samantha Dion Baker, and artisanal paintmakers Greenleaf & Blueberry.
The Draw Your World Palette includes an assortment of seventeen hand-mulled pigments in a Black Pocket Palette, with colors ranging from modern primaries and convenience colors to specialty pigments such as faux gold and faux silver. Samantha selected her favorite and most frequently used colors and arranged them based on her daily illustration practice. The result is a unique and comprehensive palette designed to inspire you to capture the world around and within you!
We are also offering a limited bundle of Draw Your World Palettes with the Draw Your World book, written and illustrated by Samantha! Learn more here.
Paint List
Row 1: Phthalocyanine Cyan, Quinacridone Magenta, Quinoxalinedione Yellow, Green Earth, Malachite/Phthalocyanine Green, Ultra Purple, Indanthrone Blue
Row 2: Red Ochre, Yellow Ochre, Cassel Earth, Lamp Black/Grey Ochre, Slate, Titanium White, Faux Gold/Faux Silver
Draw Your World by Samantha Dion Baker
See the world around you in a whole new way! Draw Your World gives you everything you need to begin a new art practice or enliven an existing one.
Covering Samantha’s favorite tools and materials, and simple technical lessons such as composition, shadows and light, symmetry, and perspective, this book includes a range of fun, motivational exercises like drawing from memory, urban sketching, travel journaling, and experimental art. With helpful step-by-steps and visual examples from Samantha’s work, Draw Your World will help you hone your skills and capture the details of your unique and remarkable life in a journal or as finished artwork.
You can purchase your copy of Draw Your World in our retail shop, online in the Art Toolkit Bookshop, or bundled with a limited-edition Pocket Palette curated by Samantha Dion Baker.
About Samantha Dion Baker
Samantha Dion Baker is originally from Philadelphia, where she grew up in a family of artists. From printmaking to graphic design, her academic and professional life has always centered around art and creating. Now a full-time illustrator, artist, and author, her favorite thing to do is wander the city streets and travel with her family, drawing all of the things she does, eats, and sees in the pages of her sketch journal.
Samantha lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two sons. She is the author of several books, including Draw Your Day, Draw Your World, and soon-to-be-published Draw Your Adventures: Making Art to Celebrate Everyday Experiences and Travels Near and Far (July 15th, 2025). Learn more about Samantha Dion Baker on her website, and on Instagram.
About Greenleaf & Blueberry
Based in Colorado, USA, Greenleaf & Blueberry produces handmade materials and supplies for the traveling artist. Co-owned and co-operated by industrious duo Jess and Matt, the beauty of Greenleaf & Blueberry products lies in the marriage of their two life passions: art-making and science.
When setting out to make paint, Jess reflects, “I wanted pure, natural colors of the highest quality, the heaviest pigment load possible, and a minimal binder that would let the unique characteristics of each pigment shine.” Learn more about their small-batch artisanal watercolors on their website and on Instagram.
Purchase your own 2024 Holiday Sets online and in store while supplies last.
Shop: Trailbound Set & Draw Your World Set
