Welcome to Trailbound Sketches
Founded by award-winning Alaskan artist and filmmaker, Max Romey, Trailbound Sketches is an impact production studio using cinematic storytelling, livestreams and watercolor painting to inspire curiosity for the natural world.
Based out of Anchorage, Alaska with a satellite studio in upstate New York, our team specializes in building community around a shared passion for watercolor and the outdoors. We offer impact filmmaking, both on-demand and livestream watercolor tutorial experiences for all levels, and a fun online community.
📺 LIVESTREAM SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, April 7, 2026 Studio Hours / April Sketching Challenge
Wednesday, April 8, 2026 TBD
Thursday, April 9, 2026 April Sketching Challenge
UPDATED April 6, 2026
In The Shop…
Each Micro Watercolor Sketching Kit is hand-filled by Max Romey.
Designed with a beginner watercolor artist in mind to help them get started with something small, portable and easy to bring on all of their adventures.
Included:
ONE Custom Trailbound Sketches Size 8 Round Travel Brush [Pointy, snappy and screws together making it very secure and nice in the hand]
ONE Pre-filled (by Max’s own two hands!) Watercolor Palette [Winsor & Newton Cotman Paints* — What Max’s late grandmother Lu used]
ONE Cotton Drawstring Storage/Travel Bag
*Lemon Yellow, Orange, Red Deep, Rose, Purple Violet, Ultramarine, Cerulean Blue, Hooker’s Green Light, Burnt Sienna, Lamp Black
Contained inside this nifty hinged metal tin are 25 square paper tiles with rounded edges. Perfectly cut Hahnemühle Expressions Bright White 100% cotton cold press watercolor paper.
A playful size and surface for precise lines with fine-liners, colored pencils, gel pens, brush pens, and ink markers, too. Not just watercolor paints!
Each Trailbound Sketches Trail Tile tin holds 25, 3½" × 3½" (8.9 cm × 8.9 cm) paper tiles and weighs 4 oz (for those ultralight trail-seekers who keep track!
🌎 ACCEPTING INTERNATIONAL & CANADIAN ORDERS [👉🏻 Please be sure to double check your shipping address, we will not re-ship returned orders.]
🚨ALASKA — Trail Tiles can be purchased in-person at these locations: Blaines Art Inc, The Net Loft.
‼️ Max is NOT in a position to accommodate in-person delivery or pick-up.
Hello Friends!
You have been asking and asking for Trail Tile Refills, but there is a caveat. Due to the production process (they are time consuming), these will be offered in batches. Additionally, we reserve the right to explore other watercolor paper options, too.
What’s Included in this batch:
Perfectly cut Hahnemühle Expressions Bright White 100% cotton cold press watercolor paper*. An original Trail Tile Tin comfortably fit 30 tiles.
Each Tile measures 3½" × 3½" (8.9 cm × 8.9 cm)
*Please note that pricing for pre-sketched tiles and refills stems from the cost of the paper, which means the price of refills may fluctuate as a result.
🔔 If you add yourself to the WAIT LIST, you will be notified via email when the next batch of refills are available BEFORE we announce the drop to the public.
RESOURCES TO HELP YOU START MAKING ART TODAY
Book of 99 Sketches Coloring Book (digital download) is a stand-alone resource to help you carve out a little time each day or week to play with your watercolor supplies. Removing the barrier of making the first scary mark with a traceable line-art sketch.
It comes with, and pairs best with our 99 Day Watercolor Sketches Series. If you purchase this book and decide later you would like to sign-up for the series, please refer to the book’s intro for a special discount code to use towards the series.
Usage:
*For personal use only. Not for commercial use*
Accessing the Files:
After your purchase, allow a few minutes to receive an email with instructions on how to access your downloads. If you do not see the email, check your spam/junk folder. If you use Paypal to check out, your log in info was sent to your Paypal email address.
This is a large file, and best to download while on a WIFI connection.
Terms and Conditions: This is a digital product and due to the digital nature, all sales are final and no refunds will be granted. All artwork © Max Romey.
Painting The Big Picture Coloring Book (digital download) is a stand-alone resource to help you carve out a little time each week. Creating one small painting until they all fit together to make one BIG picture. Designed to support a once weekly practice, it is a choose your own adventure! Each sketch is a suggestion and can be customized to tell your own story. As long as you match up the lights, darks and lines of the landscapes — the rest is very much up to your own imagination!
If you would like to paint along with the entire Trailbound Community, join us on YouTube! This is a FREE watercolor tutorial series. All replays are available in the Painting The Big Picture Together Playlist on our YouTube Channel.
Each sketch fits perfectly on a Trailbound Sketches Trail Tile.
Usage:
*For personal use only. Not for commercial use*
Accessing the Files:
After your purchase, allow a few minutes to receive an email with instructions on how to access your downloads. If you do not see the email, check your spam/junk folder. If you use Paypal to check out, your log in info was sent to your Paypal email address.
Terms and Conditions: This is a digital product and due to the digital nature, all sales are final and no refunds will be granted. All artwork © Max Romey.
This collection of 24 (+ one extra) sketches by Max Romey depict some of our community’s most cherished “backyard animals” from around the world.
Each sketch fits perfectly on a Trailbound Sketches Trail Tile.
Usage:
*For personal use only. Not for commercial use*
Accessing the Files:
After your purchase, allow a few minutes to receive an email with instructions on how to access your downloads. If you do not see the email, check your spam/junk folder. If you use Paypal to check out, your log in info was sent to your Paypal email address.
Terms and Conditions: This is a digital product and due to the digital nature, all sales are final and no refunds will be granted. All artwork © Max Romey.
Let us help you make the first mark and develop a 24 day sketching practice.
This download includes all of the line art for our wildly loved 24 Day Watercolor Series (coloring book included when you purchase the series).
Each sketch fits perfectly on a Trailbound Sketches Trail Tile.
Usage:
*For personal use only. Not for commercial use*
Accessing the Files:
After your purchase, allow a few minutes to receive an email with instructions on how to access your downloads. If you do not see the email, check your spam/junk folder. If you use Paypal to check out, your log in info was sent to your Paypal email address.
Terms and Conditions: This is a digital product and due to the digital nature, all sales are final and no refunds will be granted. All artwork © Max Romey.