Anya Toomre Art

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Anya Toomre Art I am a creative process coach and teaching artist in the visual arts. The world is a fascinating place, full of details and nuance and stories and the unusual.

Working with you to find the art that means something to you and providing strategies to leading a creative life are my goals as a coach and instructor. My drawings are slices of time, views that have caught my fancy. By noticing and sharing, we never know where we might go.

Day 17/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. Today was mixing paints to get close enough colors to match the original. ...
09/12/2026

Day 17/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. Today was mixing paints to get close enough colors to match the original. There will be a certain amount of layering like stained glass so I need to wait until the paper is dry before adding my next layer of paint.

The first image is where I got to, the second was where I started.

Sketchbook time continues with Day 16/30. I wasn’t so inspired but once I started inking things and drawing the letterin...
09/04/2026

Sketchbook time continues with Day 16/30. I wasn’t so inspired but once I started inking things and drawing the lettering it started to feel good. More lettering next time and maybe I’ll start adding some color.

The first image is where I got to, the second was where I started.

Here’s Day 15/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. I finished up the Suyai wrapper from Peru and have started another ...
08/30/2026

Here’s Day 15/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. I finished up the Suyai wrapper from Peru and have started another wrapper randomly selected from my pile. With the new one, I get to draw a map!

The 1st image is the finished Suyai wrapper, the 2nd is where I started today, and the 3rd is the start on my next wrapper.

Here’s Day 14/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. I did tackle the challenge of the vertical pattern on the black and...
08/28/2026

Here’s Day 14/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. I did tackle the challenge of the vertical pattern on the black and white Suyai package. I finished the little wrapper. We got these little chocolates every day when our rooms were made up when in the Galapagos. Nice perk!

The first image is where I got to, and the second from where I started. The third is a detail from the complicated vertical pattern.

Here’s Day 13/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. I’m doing my best to put off figuring out the vertical border patte...
08/27/2026

Here’s Day 13/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. I’m doing my best to put off figuring out the vertical border pattern on the Suyai chocolate package. It looks great, just a bit of a pain to replicate. 😁 Maybe tomorrow.

The first image is where I got to, and the second from where I started.

And here’s Day 12/30 of showing up to work in my sketchbooks today. It was an erasing pencil and then starting watercolo...
08/25/2026

And here’s Day 12/30 of showing up to work in my sketchbooks today. It was an erasing pencil and then starting watercolor day.

First pic is where I got to, second pic is from where I started today.

For today’s (Day 11/30) sketchbook entry, I decided to ink the wrapper and pattern that I’ve been working on. Fiddling w...
08/25/2026

For today’s (Day 11/30) sketchbook entry, I decided to ink the wrapper and pattern that I’ve been working on. Fiddling with it yesterday moved edges around and the placement of the lettering. It was getting messy so inking clears up some of that. Tomorrow, I’ll erase the pencil and figure out the vertical borders. Maybe I’ll paint the little wrapper since I’m sure of where the bigger wrapper sits next to it now.

First pic is where I got to, second pic is from where I started today.

For Day 10/30 of working in my sketchbooks again, I figured out the pattern on the wrapper on graph paper and then drew ...
08/23/2026

For Day 10/30 of working in my sketchbooks again, I figured out the pattern on the wrapper on graph paper and then drew it on to my wrapper in my sketchbook. Center pattern done, now to figure out the side patterns running up and down the edges.

First picture is where I got to and second is where I started from.

Day 9/30 of drawing in my sketchbooks again. Lots of erasing today so it doesn’t seem like much progress. The patterns a...
08/22/2026

Day 9/30 of drawing in my sketchbooks again. Lots of erasing today so it doesn’t seem like much progress. The patterns are complicated enough that I want to draw them out elsewhere as I keep making a mistake, erasing , and then doing the same mistake.

More tomorrow. First pic is where I got to and the second pic is where I started.

Here is Day 8/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. Here’s a little piece of chocolate from Ecuador and a lovely patter...
08/21/2026

Here is Day 8/30 of working in my sketchbooks again. Here’s a little piece of chocolate from Ecuador and a lovely patterned package from Peru.

The first image is where I got to, and the second from where I started.

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