So in this segment I want to talk about easel style. There are all sorts of easels out there from larger, stable easels which would be a permanent part of your studio to lighter travel easels, to portable easels that can go from place to place.
So there are all sort of different ones out there and we are going to take a look at some of the more common ones and what's really nice about an easel compared to say just working off a painting say for example on a wall is that you hand move the easel from plate to place in your studio to affect different lighting conditions.
It's nice. Often people like to sit next to their easel. You can stand certainly either of those, and it's nice to be able to work at different angles, most of them have a setting where you can go forward or back and sometimes that can take the glare off the painting. So, a lot of really nice advantages to easel.
So what I want to do right now is just take a mini-tour of some of the more common ones. So let's take a look. So let's take a mini-tour of some easels now. I am not really concerned at this point of going over every single bullet, and every feature of every easel, I just wanted to give you an overview of some of the different kinds that are available to you. So let's get started.
First one is a Utrecht Traditional easel, and you can see right here, it is a fairly lightweight easel. So that makes it nice and portable. You can move it from different parts of the studio and one feature about this one is that it does have a ratchet height adjustment and that just makes it really easy to move it up and down your canvas, so that's really nice and it also tilts back and forward about 15 degrees and this one is made out of beachwood and retails for about $140 or so.
I am Doug Farrick and hopefully you have just enjoyed watching that video clip, and for more like this you should check out a DVD I recently produced called An Introductory Guide to Oil Painting Tools and Supplies, and it has all sorts of chapters with information pertaining to choosing the right oil paints, all the different kinds and choices you have, the different brushes to choose, different hair types, sizes, mediums, what are some of the best, how to create them, the good, bad and ugly, I have solvents, information on supports, grounds, easels, time saving studio accessories, and a whole lot more. So check that out, it's either on Amazon or at dougfarrick.com and again the title of the DVD is An Introductory Guide to Oil Painting Tools and Supplies.
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