2026–2027 Artist’s Skill Tracker & Goals Workbook Travel Art Kit

25 Pages of Creative Challenges, Art Instruction, Skill Building & Inspiration

Ages 7+ | Draw • Paint • Explore • Sculpt • Practice • Grow

What if an art kit didn’t just give you art supplies—but actually helped you become a better artist?

The 2026–2027 Artist’s Skill Tracker & Goals Workbook Travel Art Kit is a portable creative studio designed to help beginning and developing artists discover what they enjoy creating, learn fundamental art skills, build confidence through practice, and develop creative habits that can last a lifetime.

And there’s one simple idea behind the entire kit:

You don’t have to be “born talented” to be an artist. Art is a skill—and skills get better with practice.

Even 10 minutes a day spent drawing, painting, observing, experimenting, or working in your sketchbooks can add up to meaningful improvement.

The 25-Page Artist’s Skill Tracker & Goals Workbook

The heart of the kit is the 2026–2027 Artist’s Skill Tracker & Goals Workbook, created to encourage you to use your two included sketchbooks to draw or paint—even if you only have 10 minutes that day.

This isn’t about making perfect artwork.

It’s about learning to Plan. Create. Grow.

Throughout the 25-page workbook, you’ll explore your creativity while learning how artists actually develop their skills.

You’ll:

• Explore the reasons you enjoy creating

• Identify the people, places, objects and ideas that inspire you

• Learn how to develop creative habits that last

• Make a realistic plan for daily artistic development

• Set artistic goals and identify the steps you’ll take to reach them

• Create a Creative Bucket List of things you’d love to make someday

• Discover how focused creative work can help you enter a flow state

• Learn how to create even when you have limited materials

• Reflect on your artwork instead of simply finishing it and moving on

• Track the new skills you develop

• Identify skills and techniques you’d like to learn next

• Browse your sketchbooks and reflect on what you’ve learned

• Complete a creative review of your artwork

• Record your achievements and establish your future artistic goals
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Learn How Artists See

One of the most valuable skills an artist develops isn’t something you can buy in an art-supply store.

It’s learning how to see.

The workbook introduces exercises and concepts that help you begin training your eyes like an artist.

You’ll practice and explore:

Line • Shape • Form • Perspective • Light • Shadow • Composition • Color • Observation

You’ll begin looking beyond the name of an object and noticing the shapes, proportions, highlights, shadows, spaces and relationships that actually make up what you’re seeing.

Learn What Makes a Great Composition

Why does one picture immediately attract your attention while another doesn’t?

You’ll begin learning the fundamentals of composition—how artists arrange things within a picture to make artwork more interesting and effective.

Explore focal points, visual balance, placement, movement and other ideas you can continue practicing as your artwork becomes more advanced.

Understand Light & Shadow

Instead of seeing everything as one flat shape, you’ll practice looking for:

Highlights • Midtones • Shadows • Form

Understanding how light falls across an object is one of the important steps toward making drawings and paintings appear more dimensional.

Learn to Experiment Without Fear

Artists experiment.

They also make mistakes.

All of them.

The workbook encourages you to try things without worrying that every project has to be perfect.

A mistake might teach you how a material behaves, show you a technique that doesn’t work, or even lead you to an idea you never planned.

Learning to experiment, evaluate and try again is part of becoming an artist.

Learn Color Mixing With the Included Paints

You don’t need dozens of paint colors to make interesting artwork.

You’ll learn how to use a color wheel and begin experimenting with color mixing so the acrylic paints included in your kit can produce many more colors.

You’ll also learn to think about your color palette before you begin painting rather than choosing colors randomly as you work.

These are techniques you can continue developing long after you’ve completed your first project.

Featured Challenge: Minnesota Wildflowers

Your kit includes a Minnesota Wildflower Painting Challenge with a canvas board, acrylic paints, paintbrushes, easel and a full page of painting instructions.

Follow the challenge and create your own Minnesota wildflower artwork—or change the project completely.

Because we also include transfer/tracing paper.

If flowers aren’t what you want to paint, choose another picture you love.

Transfer the important outlines of your chosen image onto your canvas and use the painting instructions and techniques you’ve learned as a guide.

Your canvas might become a flower, animal, lake, cabin, tree, pet, favorite vacation memory—or something completely your own.

The Challenge Teaches a Method, Not Just One Picture

Once you learn how to:

Choose an image → Transfer the outline → Develop your drawing → Plan your colors → Paint it → Add details → Finish your artwork

you’ve learned a process you can use again and again.

That’s much more valuable than completing one predetermined craft.

Turn 2-D Art Into 3-D Art

What happens when a drawing jumps off the page?

Another challenge introduces you to thinking in three dimensions and helps you begin translating ideas from your 2-D drawings into 3-D forms.

And we’ve included something special to get you started.

FREE Professional-Grade Air-Dry Clay Recipe + Penguin Challenge

Use the Artist’s Skill Tracker and you’ll receive our professional-grade air-dry clay recipe along with a fun Penguin Challenge.

Make your clay, then begin exploring how shapes and forms can be transformed into three-dimensional artwork.

Better yet, once you know how to make the clay, you aren’t limited to the amount supplied in a traditional craft kit.

Make more and create something completely different next time.

Three Creative Challenges Are Included

Your kit gives you three different opportunities to put your developing skills into action:

Minnesota Wildflowers Painting Challenge

Learn the transfer, drawing and painting process—or substitute an image of your own.

Chalk Art Challenge

Experiment with a completely different medium and explore color, contrast, blending and texture.

Air-Dry Clay Penguin Challenge

Make professional-grade air-dry clay using the included recipe and begin transforming two-dimensional ideas into three-dimensional creations.

Complete the challenges exactly as written—or use them as starting points for your own ideas.

An Expandable Art Kit

The supplies included in the kit are only the beginning.

The reusable zippered case is designed to become your own portable art studio.

Start with the included art tools, acrylic paints, paintbrushes, pencils, fine-line marker, chalk, sketchbooks, easel, canvas and project materials.

As you discover new media, add your favorites:

Colored pencils • Watercolors • Markers • Pastels • Charcoal • Gel pens • Watercolor pencils • Specialty pencils • Additional brushes • Collage materials • Modeling tools—and whatever inspires you next.

Your art kit can grow as your skills and interests grow.

Take Your Creativity Anywhere

Everything fits into a compact travel bag, making it easy to create when inspiration strikes.

Take it on:

Car Trips • Bus Rides • Vacations • Cabin Weekends • Camping Trips • Family Visits • Hotel Stays • Waiting Rooms • Grandparents’ Houses

Or simply open it at home when you feel like making something.

No elaborate art studio is required.

You can create what you want, where you want and when you want.

No Pressure. Just Create.

There are plenty of reasons to continue learning after you’ve completed the workbook and its three challenges.

By the end, you can look back through your two sketchbooks and see something especially important:

where you started and how much you’ve learned.

You’ll have a better appreciation for the observation, practice, experimentation and time that go into creating great art—and a record of the skills you’ve developed along the way.

Most importantly, this isn’t a competition and it isn’t about creating perfect pictures.

It’s an invitation to explore.

Draw for 10 minutes. Paint something unusual. Make some clay. Try a new color. Make a mistake. Try again. Fill your sketchbooks. Add new supplies. Set a bigger goal.

Then keep going.

Your creativity doesn’t end when the workbook does.

The 2026–2027 Artist’s Skill Tracker & Goals Workbook Travel Art Kit is a refreshing introduction to a much bigger world of artistic exploration.

Ages 7+

Plan. Create. Grow.