Taboret and Easel


I designed and built this studio easel for working oils or very large drawings.  It's mounted on swivel castors so that I can move it around with ease.

The easel is mounted in stirrups on the side of the base unit and can be removed in case I need a 24" x 24" flat work surface.  I can handle a stretched canvas up to four feet high, width is whatever could be made to be stable centered in the 11 foot wide room.

I have a more rickety floor easel built about 1987 that can accommodate a canvas six feet high.

The drawing board mounted is 24"w x 36"h and is the same as I used in my drawing classes at GSU from 1970-1974.  It's a sanded piece of 3/8 inch birch plywood.
I have a slide platform for the paint palette.

There is a sliding area for holding whatever other tools that I might need.  Here it holds things that I was using in building the studio room.
I made a large, deep drawer for supply storage. 
This is where I keep media that is not often used.

This picture gives an indication of scale.  The ruler lying flat on the surface is 15 inches.  The rectangle on the right is a standard Gumbacher vine charcoal box of about six inches on the long side.