Portable Artist Easel
Painters are born, not made. Creating a masterpiece is not something you just wake up one day and do it’s something that you are raised with. And that explains why not every one who can hold a brush is termed an artist. But for those who can, it’s a remarkable talent to say the least. There are some essentials that an artist should have. Of course the painting kit comes first as it’s the basic necessity. What comes second is debatable, but most artists would say the easel, as it is what creates a backbone of the canvas to be painted on. That is unless the painting is done on some other medium, like a wall which is rarer.
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ARTIST EASEL DESKTOP COMPACT PORTABLE TYPE ART TABLE Sale Price: $11.12  |
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Brand New - Desktop Artist Easel with Rounded Corner! Portable, easy to pick up and take to your location! Closes up to a briefcase size box. Closed measurements: 14" x 10.5" x 3" Brass hinges and thumb screws with Leather carry handle Opens to over 90 degrees Adjustable to any angle Inner compartment can easily hold your brushes and paints! Inner compartment is seperated to four individual areas... |
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Aluminum Field Easel With Case List Price: $64.95 Sale Price: $34.95 Average Rating:  |
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Aluminum Field Easel With Case... Matte black powder coated aluminum field easel has telescopic legs to accommodate a variety of height adjustments. Can be used sitting or standing. Will accept up to a 55 canvas... |
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Ravenna Table Easel with Drawer List Price: $81.95 Sale Price: $42.50 Average Rating: |
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Ravenna Table Top Box Easel...A roomy portable easel that securely holds your canvas (up to 34 inches) and your painting supplies. Made from seasoned hardwood it has an easily accessed side drawer plus a handy carrying handle. |
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Portable Wooden Artist Easel with Travel Case List Price: $60.95 Sale Price: $49.95 |
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Full Box French Style Easel List Price: $179.95 Sale Price: $59.99 Average Rating:  |
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Jack Richeson Full Box French Style Easel...An affordable French style easel imported from China by Jack Richeson & Company. Compact sturdy and convenient the French style easel is the most popular travel easel-carrying case ever made... |
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Art Advantage Italian Style Metal Sketch Box Easel List Price: $188.99 Sale Price: $49.99 Average Rating:  |
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Art Advantage Italian Style Metal Sketch Box Easel...A sleek elegantly designed compact aluminum sketch box easel. Features telescopic aluminum legs and a metal lined drawer with adjustable dividers to customize your interior compartments... |
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Heritage Cressida Tabletop Aluminum Folding Easel List Price: $44.95 Sale Price: $34.00 |
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Heritage Cressida Tabletop EaselIdeal for tabletop or display use this sturdy aluminum tabletop easel is 32 inches tall and 14 inches wide at the floor. It holds canvases up to 26 inches high and 1½ inches thick... |
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Artistan Aluminum Studio Easel, Floor Standing, Easy Fold, Portable, Light Weight Sale Price: $49.99 |
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This Studio Easel is a tripod design employing easy to adjust and ergonomically contoured knobs. Adjustments include tilt upper canvas support, lower canvas support and tripod legs. This easel has been equipped with a unique patented mechanism that enables the easel to be easily folded up without removing any parts or components... |
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Professional Watercolor Wooden Easel, Angle Adjustable for flat surface painting. Sale Price: $20.98 |
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This Professional Watercolor Easel is made of naturally hard, sturdy, beautiful elm wood. This 72 inch watercolor field easel can also double for canvas paintings as pictured. Holds canvas or watercolor blocks up to 40 inches. |
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Winsor & Newton Shannon Beechwood Studio Easel List Price: $241.95 Sale Price: $139.95 |
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A solidly built robust easel designed for Studio and College use. Made from solid beechwood. The painting ground rests on an adjustable lower shelf which allows simple adjustment of the working height... |
The array of artist’s easels is huge. The designs are different, ranging from simple to complex. There are some artists that like mobility, as sometimes the inspiration to get painting comes from the great outdoors. In such a case a portable easel is required. There are many considerations that you need to make before you narrow down on just one kind of easel. First you need to know what kind of paints you are going to work with- watercolor, oil or acrylic. For each of these, the easel you need is different for convenience.
Most portable artist easels are made from aluminum. It has long held a reputation of strength and durability and those are the precise characteristics that make it the preferred metallic material. If you want wood in your easel, Beachwood would be an awesome choice as it sports more or less the same set of characteristics as aluminum, only that it’s wood. These are best for water color paintings.
A portable French easel comes as a foldable box which reserves room for all your painting accessories, including a canvas you have painted on. It’s made from light wood which makes carrying it easier. If you prefer sitting down as you do your painting, there is a portable ‘Horse’ easel that gives you a place to sit on as you paint. But as you can imagine, it’s bigger that most other types of easels. Portability is created by the attached wheels which make it possible for you to drag it to the place you want to do your painting from. Granted, it’s a lot less portable than other types, but it is portable nonetheless. The degree of portability you are looking for will be essential in determining the type of portable easel that you want, as it has been initially suggested.
When you are out buying a portable artist easel, make sure that it has room to store all your painting essentials. That reduces the bulk that you carry when all your painting accessories are in one convenient location. Also ensure that the portable easel is not too complex in assembling or setting it up for a painting session. The easel should not compromise on space just because it offers mobility. It should be large enough to accommodate a painting canvas with little or no trouble at all.
