Plein air easel

A guide to the best plein air easels and how to choose a painting easel for plein air painting. Includes user reviews of commercially available plein air easels

If painting outside scares you, then I'd guess the idea of painting a larger watercolor piece may not seem in the realm of reality. I'd love to ease your fears by explaining how my larger watercolor plein air setup makes it easier!

(No financial affiliation with any of the artists or products mentioned in this post) (Updated 24 April 2019) Wondering which is the best plein air or outdoor easel? Not a week goes by without my inbox filling up with excellent questions from our Master Oil Painting students. I do my best to answer each one…

UPDATE: June 2022: My Plein Air Online Course: Painting Land and Sea is Now Available Painting outdoors en plein air can be invigorating, inspiring, meditative... and frustrating, inhibiting, and uncomfortable! I like comfort, so I've done a lot of research to assemble a plein air kit that is lightweight, stable, and functional.By nature I am a studio painter: I like a chair, regulated temperature, controlled lighting, access to all my materials, and most of all.... NO BUGS. But despite the…

Spring always makes me want to get outside to paint. A while ago someone wrote to me and asked about my Yarka plein air easel. It is a wooden field easel similar to the French easel, but with the materials compartment in the front of the easel instead of behind. So it opens more like

The #pochadeboxpainter can be used for watercolor painting✅️ There is a strong latch that prevents the box from opening✅️ The wood is treated with waterproof wax✅️ #pochadeboxpainter #watercolor #watercolorpainting #watercolorart #paletteknifepainting #lefthandedpainting #usaartist

Lightweight plein air easel for watercolor painting. Includes step by step details of how it was constructed. An outdoor easel should be light and functional.

The day after Thanksgiving my husband and I had planned to go plein air painting. Little did we know when we woke up it was 43 degrees. That may seem like peanuts to a lot of you but for those of us who have lived in Florida for so long, it seemed a bit chilly. &nbs

This is my current setup. The last post I did on this was from May of 2014 . It's still a useful resource for the cheapest, most straightforward setup. The whole thing cost about 50-75$ to make. It goes into a lot of detail about how I made it, and is probably worth re

In this article, I will share with you my plein air setup for gouache.