Watercolor paintings, hand-carved prints, and playful illustrations that blur the line between delicate and delightfully unexpected.
Inktoolbox grew from Leah Novelli’s love of working across different artistic mediums, with a name inspired by the many tools in her creative toolbox. Ink appears throughout her practice, from linocut prints to ink pen drawings, alongside a growing collection of watercolor and gouache paintings. The result is a body of work that moves easily between detailed, traditional painting and more playful, graphic illustration.
Leah works primarily in watercolor and gouache, creating original paintings alongside giclée prints, hand carved and hand printed linocuts, risograph prints, and stickers made from reused materials. Her designs often begin with pencil and paper before moving into a digital process, allowing each idea to develop through a mix of analog and digital techniques.
That sense of experimentation is what makes Inktoolbox unmistakably Leah. Her watercolor paintings can feel worlds apart from her more cartoony digital work, almost as though they were created by two different artists. Somehow, they’re all part of the same toolbox. Most of the work happens around the dining room table at home, where paintings and supplies have a habit of taking over the kitchen table and turning an everyday space into a working studio.
What You'll Find at Bloom
Watercolor and gouache paintings, giclée and risograph prints, hand carved linocuts, reused material stickers, and playful illustrations.
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Why Bloom?
“I saw being a part of Shop Bloom as a challenge, since I've never had my work for sale in a shop before. I knew this would take a lot of planning and coordination on my part, and I definitely wanted a chance to work with an established and reliable storefront!” - Leah
Fun Fact
Every time Leah vends at a market, she spends my downtime making paper cranes. At certain points, she’s made way too many paper cranes and have started giving them away to customers just to keep her table from getting cluttered!