This all started as secret. I was too embarrassed to post my watercolors to my instagram. I was worried about what people might say and my paintings felt a bit too close to my heart. so I started a separate account and called it @trailboundsketches
Instead of the judgment and criticism I was afraid of from those watercolor posts, I found a community of amazing supportive sketchers. It’s inspired me to paint it forward and since then I have followed those watercolors around the world trying to tell stories that share the big picture (literally) through adventure and creativity.
This year the plan is to share more through weekly videos on YouTube and our newsletter. We started a whole new “Trailbound sketches” account on YouTube and if you wanted to be one of the first to subscribe, it would mean the world!
🎨 @arttoolkit
🥾 @keen
📸 @gopro
Finding inspiration during my second day at the @banffmountainfestival
📚 The color of Everything by @coryrichards
🐺 Echo Loba Loba Echo by Sonja Smith
🚶🏽♀️➡️Headstrap by Nandini Purandare & Deepa Baslsavar
Don’t 👏 forget 👏 to 👏 VOTE 👏
Local elections here in Anchorage but I feel like everyone always forgets how much your voice matters on a local level. A lot of these elections are one or lost by a handful of votes and you are often electing, neighbors, or people who will make direct decisions for your home and community. Tell a friend, or better yet, offer them a ride to the polling place when you go.
@markruffalo makes his long-awaited ShAFF debut as narrator in A Little Story About Forever – a gorgeous, animated film about the threat to ‘forever’ from forever chemicals.
A wild adventure with Max and Kip, plus some important advice too – catch it at ShAFF 2026 all weekend long.
🎥A Little Story About Forever
🍿Adventure Bites
⏱️Looping all weekend!
🎬 @maxromey
Tickets now on sale – link in bio 🔗
What if your grandmother left you a map - hidden inside a sketchbook? 🎨🏔️
A 30-year-old notebook sends artist Max Romey to the Mont Blanc region to track down the exact spots his grandmother once painted. He follows her footsteps through breathtaking alpine landscapes - only to discover that one glacier has changed beyond recognition.
"My Grandmother's Sketchbook" is a journey through memory, mountains, and the visible marks of climate change. Watch it now at the Banff Mountain Film Festival!
Could a sketchbook change your life?
Join in LIVE as I sketch and adventure Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday on the Trailbound Sketches YouTube and Twitch. Or sign up for our newsletter full of little watercolor updates, schedules and tips.
Join Trailbound Sketches this Friday from 8:30am-10am(Alaska time) for a free class on painting light in the darkness, live all together on our YouTube and Twitch.
What a great way to kick off the 2026 @arctic.orienteering season!
How would you do with just a map? 🗺️
Thanks to everyone who set up this amazing event and makes arctic orienteering happen!
Have you seen me trying to paint in subzero weather live?
This is how I’m able to do it without my camera, freezing, although my paint or my fingers tends to be the first thing that freeze.
Do you have any tips for trying to go live in the Arctic?
Keep your eye out each week for a live adventure sketch and hidden watercolor kit that you can find a keep.
Let me know where in the world you want me to visit in 2026 so that you have a chance to find one yourself!
