“A palette is like a portrait of the artist who created it.”
Greenleaf & Blueberry founder Jess Greenleaf
The Draw Your World Palette
This limited-edition palette is a special collaboration with artist and illustrator Samantha Dion Baker and artisanal paintmakers Greenleaf & Blueberry. Samantha selected her favorite and most often used colors and designed their layout based on her practice of daily illustrations. The result is a unique and comprehensive palette to inspire you to illustrate the world around and within you.
Modern Primary Colors
CMYK: for mixing exact hues. Learn about the Modern Primaries.
- Quinacridone Magenta
- Quinoxalinedione Yellow
- Phthalocyanine Cyan
- Grey Ochre
Skin Tone Colors
For portraits.
- Red Ochre
- Yellow Ochre
- Cassel Earth
- Titanium White
Convenience Colors
To save time.
- Green Earth 2
- Malachite
- Phthalocyanine Green
- Ultramarine Purple
- Indanthrone Blue
Specialty Colors
For specific kinds of details.
- Lamp Black (inky, intense blacks)
- Slate (shadows)
- Faux Gold (street numbers and signs)
- Faux Silver
Draw Your World
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, simple technical lessons such as composition, shadows and light, symmetry, and perspective, plus 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 the Art Toolkit Bookshop.
Samantha Dion Baker
Samantha is originally from Philadelphia, where she grew up in a family of artists. Throughout childhood, she would spend afternoons drawing in her grandmother’s sculpture studio, and would watch her mother make intricate illustrations on her drafting table at home. Samantha attended The Cooper Union in New York City, where she studied everything from design to printmaking, having a desire to learn and experiment with as much as possible before settling on a design career. She then spent over twenty years working as a graphic designer in Toronto and New York City, with a strong focus in the art world. In her early forties, Samantha began to draw again, and through a regular sketchbook practice, transitioned from designer to artist. 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, NY with her husband and two sons. She is the author of Draw Your Day, Draw Your Day Sketchbook, Draw Your World (June 2021), and Draw Your Day For Kids! (December 2021).
Learn more about Samantha Dion Baker on her website, and on Instagram.
Greenleaf & Blueberry
Based in Colorado, USA, Greenleaf & Blueberry produces handmade materials and supplies for the traveling artist. Learn more about their small-batch artisanal watercolors on their website and on Instagram.