Art Toolkit

Art Toolkit Sketch anywhere, anytime! Compact tools for sketching: the Art Toolkit, Pocket Palette, and field-tested accessories. Created by .

Located in Port Townsend, Washington.

Join us online on Wednesday, April 8th at noon Pacific for our live demo, Phenology Wheels with Sandy Allnock!In this de...
03/27/2026

Join us online on Wednesday, April 8th at noon Pacific for our live demo, Phenology Wheels with Sandy Allnock!

In this demo, learn how to create your own phenology wheel—one of the most beautiful forms of nature journaling. A phenology wheel is a circular piece of art with small paintings created each day after your morning walk. Phenology, which is the study of the changes in nature over time, helps you engage with the natural world around you, and a tiny daily painting can transform your relationship with both the outdoors and with art.

Bring a couple of your favorite round brushes, some loose sheets of watercolor paper, and paints in your favorite bright and springy hues. Sandy will be sharing a special discount on art classes for live demo participants, so be sure to join us!

Save the date and learn more about the demo here: https://arttoolkit.com/events/2026/04/08/phenology-wheels-with-sandy-allnock/
Sandy Allnock: https://sandyallnock.com

Our annual Spring Sale is here! Once a year, we clear our shelves and find treasures waiting for their forever homes!Spr...
03/15/2026

Our annual Spring Sale is here! Once a year, we clear our shelves and find treasures waiting for their forever homes!

Spring Sale Factory Seconds
• Our Spring Sale features our factory seconds: palettes with slight blemishes, a few imperfect Mixing Pans (sold out), and Triad Templates.
• Browse seconds here: https://arttoolkit.com/spring-sale/

15% Off Art Supplies
• Plus, we’re offering a special 15% discount for all Art Toolkit products and other eligible products store-wide, to say thank you for being part of our community. Use the code SPRINGCLEAN26 at checkout through this Thursday, March 19th at midnight Pacific to save!⁠
• Visit arttoolkit.com for more.

Ring in the spring with our Spring Workshop Series!⁠🌷⁠⁠Join with Live or Recorded Access and follow along at your own pa...
02/27/2026

Ring in the spring with our Spring Workshop Series!⁠
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⁠⁠Join with Live or Recorded Access and follow along at your own pace with instructors Ohn Mar Win, Kate Rutter, Jenny Jing Zhang, and Art Toolkit Founder Maria Coryell-Martin.⁠⁠ ⁠Register via the links below:

Understanding Value: Bring Depth to Your Art with Ohn Mar Win⁠:
https://arttoolkit.com/workshops/understanding-value-with-ohn-mar-win/
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Object Studies: Capture One Subject Nine Ways with Kate Rutter⁠:
https://arttoolkit.com/workshops/object-studies-with-kate-rutter/
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Bending Perspective: Explore Dynamic and Expressive Cityscapes with Jenny Jing Zhang⁠:
https://arttoolkit.com/workshops/bending-perspective-with-jenny-jing-zhang/
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Adventure Art: Sketch the World Around You with Maria Coryell-Martin⁠:
https://arttoolkit.com/workshops/adventure-art-with-maria-coryell-martin/

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We’re also running an Early Bird Special! Get $10 off each Live Access seat you purchase this week for our spring workshops. Use the code EARLYBIRD10 at checkout now through Thursday, March 5th at midnight Pacific. Register soon and enjoy this limited-time discount!⁠
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Why Live Access? With Live Access, you can join the 2-hour workshop call, with an additional 30 minutes for asking questions, sharing art, and receiving feedback from the instructor. Workshop recordings remain available for at least 12 months after the live event, for both Live and Recorded Access, for those who wish to work at their own pace. ⁠
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We hope to see you online this season!

Join us online on Wednesday, February 25th at noon Pacific for our live demo, 1 Week, 100 People with Suhita Shirodkar!⁠...
02/12/2026

Join us online on Wednesday, February 25th at noon Pacific for our live demo, 1 Week, 100 People with Suhita Shirodkar!⁠ Join live on YouTube or watch a recording on our Demos page afterwards.⁠

https://www.youtube.com/live/beGBbFquHVo
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In this hands-on demo session, urban sketcher Suhita Shirodkar will share tips for how to complete her favorite annual worldwide sketching challenge, , which takes place in the first week of March. Suhita will demonstrate some of her speed-sketch techniques and invite you to join her in sketching a bustling scene full of people.
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About Suhita | Suhita Shirodkar is an urban sketcher, visual journalist, visual storyteller, and educator based in California. An instructor of sketching workshops locally and around the world, Suhita particularly loves drawing people and scenes full of action and energy. See more of Suhita’s work on Instagram and sign up for her monthly newsletter at http://sketchaway.substack.com for sketching tips and challenges each month.

This Valentine’s Day, celebrate creativity with our special-edition Pink Palettes.Available in three sizes—Demi, Pocket,...
01/28/2026

This Valentine’s Day, celebrate creativity with our special-edition Pink Palettes.

Available in three sizes—Demi, Pocket, and Folio—these shimmering
palettes add a playful pop of color to winter days while serving as the perfect companion for artists on the go.

Whether you’re looking for a colorful gift for a special artist in your life, or indulging in a sweet treat for yourself, our Pink Palettes add a little sprinkle of joy to any artistic adventure.

Shop Pink Palettes here: https://arttoolkit.com/supplies/pink-palettes/

Pink Demi, Pocket, and Folio Palettes come without paint pans, which gives you the perfect opportunity to mix and match ...
01/27/2026

Pink Demi, Pocket, and Folio Palettes come without paint pans, which gives you the perfect opportunity to mix and match pans to customize your own personalized palette.

For starters, you could assemble 12 Mini Pans in a Demi Palette, 14 Standard Pans in a Pocket Palette, or 15 Double Pans in a Folio Palette for even, proportional pigments. Switch in a bigger pan for a color you love, or swap paint pans for a Small, Large or XL Mixing Pan.

The combinations are truly endless.

Read more about our limited edition Pink Palettes here: https://arttoolkit.com/blog/2026/01/pink-palettes/

Shop Pink Palettes here:
https://arttoolkit.com/supplies/pink-palettes/

Nature journaling prompt: Dormant tree silhouettes. Today you’ll be taking a closer look at deciduous trees. Practice ca...
01/23/2026

Nature journaling prompt: Dormant tree silhouettes. Today you’ll be taking a closer look at deciduous trees. Practice capturing the unique branching patterns of bare, dormant trees. What directions do the branches take, and what techniques can you experiment with to capture them on paper?⁠

This week’s blog features a guest post from Lisa Work.⁠

”Nature journaling has become, for me, a practice of returning—both to places I love and to a slower way of seeing,” writes Lisa. “In the fall, I love looking up into canopies of yellow, orange, and burgundy. In winter, I find myself enjoying that upward gaze just as much. Even without leaves, the forest is full of movement and quiet energy. Dormancy, I’m learning, is not the absence of life, but life at rest.”⁠

Thank you so much, Lisa, for sharing your art, process, and reflections on nature journaling with us! Read Lisa’s full blog post here: https://arttoolkit.com/blog/2026/01/nature-journaling-prompt-dormant-trees/
Tag your art on Instagram with and for a chance to be featured on our blog.

Had your eye on an Art Toolkit Workshop or want to learn new watercolor and sketching techniques? Celebrate the start of...
01/17/2026

Had your eye on an Art Toolkit Workshop or want to learn new watercolor and sketching techniques? Celebrate the start of 2026 with incredible instructors and Art Toolkit Workshops!⁠

From now until January 22nd at midnight Pacific, use the code RESOLUTION26 to get a Buy One, Get One Free deal on our archive of Recorded Access workshops!*⁠

For just $50, add a Recorded Access workshop to your cart and get another for free! Enjoy access to the recordings for 12+ months from your purchase date and join our online learning platform, Circle, where our community shares art, inspiration, and engages in workshop materials together.⁠

From incorporating written notes into your journals to learning to create balanced compositions from complex scenes and painting flowing florals, our selection of recorded workshops has something for everybody. ⁠

Don’t miss out on this limited-time offer—enter the code RESOLUTION26 at checkout to get your second Recorded Access workshop free!⁠

*Offer excludes current winter workshops and the six-session Watercolor Fundamentals course.

Check out our full range of workshops here: https://arttoolkit.com/workshops/

Zoom In, Zoom Out: Choose one natural object and sketch it at three different scales: life-size, magnified, and zoomed-o...
01/16/2026

Zoom In, Zoom Out: Choose one natural object and sketch it at three different scales: life-size, magnified, and zoomed-out in the environment. This is a great chance to play with perspective: how does the object look from straight on vs. from above?

Today on the blog, Retail Manager Brooke Weber writes about the inspiration and process behind her response to the nature journaling prompt above.

”I found inspiration in the luxurious nasturtiums beneath my sibling’s ornamental plum tree. There’s a story in those nasturtiums and their December tenacity, but since I don’t speak plant, I don’t know it,” writes Brooke. ”I loved the invitation to leave behind my normal frame of reference to focus so close on a droplet of water. I enjoyed the process, especially when I rubbed the cool skin of the nasturtium between my fingers, and felt the wrinkles and the veins before I ever started putting paint to page.”

Read Brooke’s full blog post here: https://arttoolkit.com/blog/2026/01/zoom-in-zoom-out/.

If you sketch this prompt, tag your art with and on Instagram or share it on our Circle community (https://circle.arttoolkit.com)!

We’re excited to announce a new sketching tool and brush to our website! ⁠The Sailor Fude De Mannen Fountain Pen feature...
01/12/2026

We’re excited to announce a new sketching tool and brush to our website! ⁠

The Sailor Fude De Mannen Fountain Pen features a unique 55 degree bent nib, which allows you to create a range of fine and heavy lines. We first learned about these fountain pens from our community of artists. The Fude De Mannen Fountain Pen gives expressive, variable lines and is a favorite of many of our Urban Sketcher friends. ⁠
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The fountain pen comes with two black water-soluble ink cartridges that are ready to use. We are also stocking Sailor Ink Cartridges and the Sailor Ink Converter, which allows you to refill your Sailor fountain pen with bottled fountain ink, on our website.⁠
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The Neptune 1" Mottler is an absorbent, flat brush ideal for even washes and sharp edges. Compact and travel-size, the Neptune 1" Mottler tucks neatly into both the Pocket and A5 Art Toolkits.⁠
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Head to our website (https://arttoolkit.com) to find out more about these exciting new supplies!

We’re thrilled to have a new warehouse space for our operations!Our new warehouse space gives us breathing room with mor...
01/01/2026

We’re thrilled to have a new warehouse space for our operations!

Our new warehouse space gives us breathing room with more areas for inventory, production, and office team work stations (everyone has a desk!). We love having good neighbors, too, from the Aurora Loop Gallery across the street, to nearby Social Fabric Brewing, Lila’s Kitchen, and our favorite, Raney Day Coffee Truck. We also have a lovely nearby duck pond with lots of wild blackberries to pick in late summer.

Warehouse highlights:

- Getting to open the big bay doors on sunny days
- The smooth floor which the Logistics Team loves (they have been outfitting office chairs with rollerblade wheels for extra smooth gliding)
- Plants that make the space more friendly and beautiful

Check out our blog post for the full update and see more photos of our new space! https://arttoolkit.com/blog/2025/12/room-to-grow-expanding-our-workspace

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