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.

07/21/2026

Join us for Art in the Park with Art Toolkit Founder and Expeditionary Artist Maria Coryell-Martin on Wednesday, August 5th from 1pm–2pm at Chetzemoka Park to explore watercolor!⁠

• https://arttoolkit.com/events/2026/08/05/art-in-the-park/

Meet us at the gazebo for a sketching demonstration and art scavenger hunt. Bring your favorite sketchbook and supplies, and we’ll have a selection of Art Toolkit watercolor Explore Palettes and brushes available to borrow.

This free event is part of the Port Townsend Public Library’s Summer Reading Program and is open to enthusiastic artists of all ages and levels. Learn about other library events on their website and we hope to see you there!

• https://ptpubliclibrary.org/library/page/summer-reading-program-2026

07/17/2026

Join us in celebrating the expansion of our Retail Shop in downtown Port Townsend!⁠ Our Shop Expansion Party will take place on Wednesday, August 5th from 4pm–7:30pm at 1003 Water Street, Port Townsend, Washington.⁠

Explore fresh displays and new supplies, including Tombow Dual Brush Pen marker sets, Tom’s Studio pens, outdoor accessories from Snow Peak, and an expanded selection of Daniel Smith paints! Try out sketching tools, meet our team, enjoy light refreshments as you browse, and leave your mark in the Art Toolkit guestbook with an Ivan Brunetti-style portrait. Don’t know Brunetti? Join us on the 29th and we’ll show you!⁠

We’re looking forward to an energized evening connecting with our amazing local community and celebrating this exciting next chapter for the Art Toolkit Retail Shop. Locals, visitors, and artists of all ages are welcome to this free event, so bring a friend and see you there!

Upcoming events: https://arttoolkit.com/events/

06/05/2026

Join us online on Wednesday, June 17th at noon Pacific for our live demo, Perpetual Journaling with Lara Gastinger!

Perpetual journaling is an approach to nature journaling that builds year after year on the same pages. In this live demo, Lara will introduce basic skills for starting and maintaining your own perpetual journal!

Learn how to set up your sketchbook and discover the observational techniques that Lara uses to sketch on-location. Lara will be drawing and painting a fern fiddlehead and frond, and we invite you to follow along with pen and watercolor.

About Lara | Lara Call Gastinger is an artist and botanical illustrator from Charlottesville, Virginia. Her art appears in Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms of North America and the American Society of Botanical Artists’ Botanical Art Techniques, and she was the chief illustrator of Flora of Virginia, a botanical reference. She teaches online and in person and is excited to publish her book, A Perpetual Journal Practice: Building a Connection with Nature Through Art on June 23rd, 2026. Find out more at perpetualjournal.com.

Save the date and see you online on June 17th for Perpetual Journaling with Lara Gastinger!

Link: https://arttoolkit.com/events/2026/06/17/perpetual-journaling-with-lara-gastinger/

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

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.

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!

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.

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/

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/

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/
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