Welcome to Trailbound Sketches

Founded by award-winning Alaskan artist and filmmaker, Max Romey, Trailbound Sketches is a production studio and a vibrant global community.

Based out of Anchorage, Alaska, we specialize in impact filmmaking and educational content. Our mission is to use filmmaking and watercolor painting to inspire curiosity for the outdoor state and to encourage others to paint it forward.

CURRENT FILMS:

MY GRANDMOTHER’S SKETCHBOOK [2025]

Official release and YouTube 🍿 watch party WITH livestream immediately following the online screening is Wednesday, July 2nd @ 10:30AM Alaska Time (2:30PM EST)

All details will be distributed by way of the Trailbound Sketches weekly Newsletter (Tuesdays) and Trailbound Sketches Instagram @trailboundsketches.

Premiered May 26, 2025 @ Mountainfilm Festival, Telluride, Colorado

This short film about forever unfolds from the POVs of father (Max Romey) and son (Kip) as they attempt to write a book about what forever means. The father feels overwhelmed by all of the threats to forever, like forever chemicals, and calls an unlikely hero – Mark Ruffalo – to ask for help seeing the big picture.

RECENT COLLABORATIONS:

See how the team at Outside interpret my way of seeing the world in watercolor to help Toyota inspire the Outside community to find their wild on the trails with their new 4Runner — Trailhunter!