Artwork – hailey-stout studio

September 22, 2025

ALL CAUGHT UP…Finally finished all the current 2025 SketchBox monthly boxes…!

My goal this Summer was to finish all 28 months of SketchBox monthly subscription boxes I had accumulated. Yes…I’m proud of myself for reaching this goal, and I did it before Summer was officially over. (Actually finished last Tuesday, Sept 16th). So here we go…

#SketchBoxJuly 2025 was a great box of goodies…

Sketchbox Signature 12-set Professional Travel Watercolors (Canary Yellow, Pumpkin, Lipstick Red, Beet Red, Payne’s Grey, z Berlin Blue, Caribbean Blue, Eggplant, Imperial Purple, Emerald, Yellow Ochre, Chestnut Brown), Sketchbox Signature Long Round Brush (size 4), Caran d’Ache Neocolor II (Dark Grey), Hahnemuhle Zig Zag Book

This is a great set of travel watercolors, and brush. The Neocolor crayon was new to me, and works so well for sketching. The accordion travel watercolor zig zag book is a great addition to my travel supplies.

We live in a the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, so there’s always great scenery to paint from.

Loved the silo and red barn peeping out of the foliage around the field below.

#SketchboxAugust2025 was interesting. I haven’t done much work in utilizing “vanishing point”, which was the prompt for this month.

Sketchbox Signature 6-set Acrylic Brush Markers, Karin Pigment Real Brush (lilac, ochre), POSCA PC-350 Brush (gold), Prismacolor Vol-erase (pink), Clair-Fontaine Bristol Pad (4 x 6, 205 /gsm, 10 sheets).

The marker colors are so vivid, and loved the sketching pencil.

This is a takeoff of train tracks in a rail yard with some curvy switching tracks involved.

This vanishing point is another abstract of a city street with a tunnel at the end and possible buildings and windows along the way.

#SketchBoxSeptember2025 was too much fun, and I think I have a new favorite brush in the SketchBox Signature wedge brush…it can do most anything…so versatile! This month’s prompt was “in flight”.

We watched eagles feed in the field behind our house right before I started on this, so very appropriate.

Thanks @getSketchBox for a fun 28-month’s-worth art supplies and tutorials. In the future, I will only blog for the current month (unless I get behind again.) Ha!

August 2, 2025August 23, 2025

Second SketchBox Review – August and September 2023

As in the previous post a few days ago, I am continuing to go through past boxes from the monthly subscription to SketchBox.com. This post contains my review of August and September of 2023…have to say I’m having too much fun with these.

Copic Ciao (YG03), Copic Sketch (YG06), New Product – OLO Marker, Pan Pastel (bright yellow green), SketchBox Signature Blending Stump Set (3), Pentel Soft Eraser, Goldfaber Sketching Pencil (4H), Copic Multiliner (Olive, 3mm), Barden & Riley Bristol Pad

I had never used any of these products, so it was all a very beneficial learning experience. I have always just sketched with pencil, pen, done house portraits in pen and ink (the old fashioned way), using art markers to color in, if not just black and white, and done a little watercolor.

Because we live on a farm for 6 months of the year…late Spring, Summer, and very early Fall, I have used some of the pics I have taken along the way this season.

SketchBox Signature Opaque Watercolor Palette, Faber- Castell Watercolor Pencil, Faber-Castell Water Brush, Copic Multiliner, Hahnemule Landscape Watercolor Book

The two pages in my Sketchbox scrapbook I’m keeping with samples of the tutorials recommended.

The August box contained the following: Copic Ciao (YG03), Copic Sketch (YG06), New Product – OLO Marker, Pan Pastel (bright yellow green), SKEtchbox Signature Blending Stump Set (3), Pentel Soft Eraser, Goldfaber Sketching Pencil (4H), Copic Multiliner (Olive, 3mm), Barden & Riley Bristol Pad.

The picture below is my inspiration picture:

Hay bales…the weird artist in me LOVES them!

And now for my quick rendition:

The above images are from #SketchboxAugust of 2023.

Now for the next month, September, I again used inspiration from a yellow butterfly feasting on a thistle, and then sunflowers a friend brought over.

The Se-temper box had even more new products to me: Holbein Artist’s Gouache (Elm Green G849, Iron Oxide Red G832, Gardenia Yellow G824, White G885), Archer & Olive Acrtlograph Pen, SKetchbox Signature Filbert Brush (size 6), Graduate Natural Mixed Media Pad.

I loved all these products, just like in the August box, and have thoroughly enjoyed starting to learn how to use them. Have to say that gouache is really, really nice!

Holbein Artist’s Gouache (Elm Green G849, Iron Oxide Red G832, Gardenia Yellow G824, White G885), Archer & Olive Acrtlograph Pen, SKetchbox Signature Filbert Brush (size 6), Graduate Natural Mixed Media Pad

And now the up-close version of the sunflowers. I LOVE the darker sunflowers in particular.

October 27, 2018

Time to Add…

we’ve been busy in the Hailey-Stout Studio & Middlebreeze Manufactory even though we haven’t posted anything for a very long time, so it’s now time to add some pics of what we have been doing….