Art & Craft Tutorials

Katie Smith

Ever wanted to work with water brushes? Read these 4 easy tips by @studio.katie on the @tombowusa blog! #tombowusa #waterbrush #watercolor — Are you looking for a few water brush tips? You’re in the right place! I’m Katie from Studio Katie! Today, I’ll be sharing a few things I’ve learned after working with Tombow’s NEW Water Brushes. I’ll also be sharing with you my process for creating this floral art journal page inspired […]

4 Tips for Water Brushes + Floral Art Journal Page

June 5, 2019 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks / Watercolor tagged Art Journal / floral / Tips / tombow dual brush pen / Water Brushes / Watercolor by Katie Smith

Hey y’all, it’s Katie here today to share with you a few tips for mixed media sketching using Tombow’s 1500 Series Colored Pencils and Dual Brush Pens. I love using this technique to practice new ideas, face angles, subjects, etc. Supplies: Tombow 1500 Colored Pencils, 36 pc Set Tombow MONO […]

Mixed Media Sketching Using Colored Pencils

May 23, 2019 in Design Team / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged 1500 colored pencils / art / colored pencils / Drawing / Dual Brush Pens / Mixed Media / Mono Multi XL Liquid Glue / Sketching / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hi Tombow fans, I’m Katie from Studio Katie here to share how to make a Mother’s Day Tea Gift Bag! Mother’s Day is coming up fast and your mom deserves something special! My mom and I are both tea lovers, so I made my mom a Tea Gift Bag! Supplies: […]

DIY Custom Mother’s Day Tea Gift Bag

May 8, 2019 in Design Team / General / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Gift / Mothers Day / tea / Tutorial / Xtreme adhesive by Katie Smith

Hi everyone, it’s Katie from Studio Katie here! In honor of color week, I want to show you how to paint a watercolor kiwi art piece using green Dual Brush Pens! Supplies: Watercolor Paper Tombow MONO Graph Mechanical Pencil Tombow Dual Brush Pens in these colors: 062, 133, 126, 195, 969, […]

How to Paint a Watercolor Kiwi

April 18, 2019 in General tagged art / Drawing / Dual Brush Pens / fruit / Summer / Watercolor by Katie Smith

Where are my fellow mountain/nature lovers at? Hey y’all, I’m Katie from Studio Katie and today I’m going to show you how to create a piece of mountain inspired art! I really love those vintage national park posters, so that’s exactly what I wanted this piece to feel like! I’m using […]

Easy Mountain Inspired Art You Can DIY

April 1, 2019 in Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks / Watercolor tagged art / Drawing / Dual Brush Pen Landscape Set / Dual Brush Pens / Landscape Palette / mountain / nature / poster / Sketching / Watercolor by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, it’s Katie from Studio Katie here! Are you ready for the spring equinox and the start of (hopefully) warmer weather? Today, I’m going to show you how to create a Spring Bucket List Journal Spread in your dot grid journal! Supplies: Dot Grid Journal (I’m using an Archer […]

DIY Spring Bucket List Journal Spread

March 20, 2019 in Design Team / Planning & Journaling / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged bucket list / bullet journal / Doodle / Doodling / Dot Grid Journal / Drawing / fudenosuke brush pens / habit tracker / Pastel Set TwinTones / planner / planning / Spring / task journal / Tombow TwinTone Dual Tip Markers by Katie Smith

What are your thoughts on Pantone’s 2019 Color of the Year, Living Coral? It’s Katie from Studio Katie here and today I’m going to show you how to make a monochrome art journal page based on the Color of the Year. Supplies: Tombow Dual Brush Pens, 995 and 803 are both […]

DIY Monochrome Art Journal Page

March 7, 2019 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Art Journal / Color of the Year / dual brush pen / Mixed Media / Pantone by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, I’m Katie and today I’m here to share a few tips on drawing with brush pens, more specifically the Fudenosuke Colors! Supplies: Tombow Fudenosuke Colors Sketchbook, I’m using Tombow’s Exclusive Dot Grid Journal Tombow MONO Graph Mechanical Pencil Tombow MONO Light Eraser Tip one: Use thick and […]

5 Tips for Drawing with Brush Pens

February 18, 2019 in Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged dot grid / Drawing / Fudenosuke Colors / Sketching / Tips / Tombow Fudenosuke Colors / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Do you love geometric rainbow art? I do! Hey guys, I’m Katie from Studio Katie here and today I’ll be showing you how to use the new Tombow TwinTone Rainbow Set to create some really cool art! Supplies: NEW TwinTone Marker Set, 12-Pack Rainbow Watercolor Paper Tombow MONO Graph Mechanical Pencil […]

DIY Geometric Rainbow Art

February 6, 2019 in Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks / Watercolor tagged art / diy / geometric / Rainbow Set TwinTones / Tombow TwinTone Dual Tip Markers / Tutorial / Watercolor by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, it’s Katie from Studio Katie here, and today I’ll be showing you how to create an easy Zentangle Portrait Drawing. Zentangling is one of those things I don’t do all the time, but I always come back to it whenever I need a bit of inspiration or just […]

Easy Zentangle Portrait Drawing

January 21, 2019 in Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks / Zentangle tagged Doodle / Drawing / MONO Drawing Pen / mono graph mechanical pencil / Tutorial / Zentangle / Zentangle Inspired Artwork by Katie Smith

Hello everyone, It’s Katie here with my first post of 2019! To celebrate the new Design Team for the new year, we’ll each be doing a project based on our styles. My style is very much on the artsy/drawing side, so today I’ll be showing you how to create this […]

DIY Mixed Media Art Journal Background

January 9, 2019 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Mixed Media / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Art Journal / Drawing / Dual Brush Pens / Mixed Media / Tutorial by Katie Smith

Hey everyone, It’s Katie here! If there’s one thing I love to do every time I take a trip somewhere, it’s to keep a travel journal! I like to bind them ahead of time, and only bring along a small kit of supplies so that I don’t get overwhelmed and […]

Putting Together A Travel Journal Kit

December 21, 2018 in Art Journaling / Design Team / Tutorials, Tips & Tricks tagged Art Journal / Clique Kits / Dual Brush Pens / MONO Adhesive Permanent / MONO Aqua Liquid Glue / Tombow Mono Twin Permanent Marker / travel journal by Katie Smith