HOMCOM Folding Wood French Artists Easel Set Portable Art Painters Tripod Sketch Craft

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This easel works as I hoped it would. Some of my brushes do fall through the bottom though when the set is closed up but I will find something to tie them together to prevent that. On the other hand there was an issue w the shipping (delivery company's fault we found out in the end) and the customer service was great. Very pleased so far with this purchase

I bought this as a gift for my wife. It's very well made, she uses it every day and has no problems with it! Just be careful when adjusting the easel, you have to be sure the screws are tightly screwed.

EXACTLY AS DESCRIBED, I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE STABILITY OF THE EASEL BASED ON OTHER REVIEWS HOWEVER IT FUNCTIONS PERFECTLY AS DESCRIBED. NO I PROBABLY WOULD NOT PUT A REMBRANDT ON IT BUT THEN AGAIN IF I HAD A REMBRANDT...

I really like how diverse in use this product is. You can put large and medium canvases on it. If you're doing watercolor, you can tape the watercolor paper to a clipboard and lower the incline of the easel to make working with watercolor easier.The easel also looks REALLY GOOD. You can paint it yourself with a very sexy varnish, which was what I did. Having an easel like this is just very impressive to show people, and that alone was what made it worth the buy. However, it has a lot of really interesting features!Firstly, it is well adjustable. I'm a 6-foot tall man, so I'm always looking out for easels that easily can match me at eye level. If you're painting en Plein air for several hours, it gets uncomfortable hunching forward. This easel works for me even with smaller canvas sizes, as the ramp that you lay the canvas down on can be pushed up or down if you want. The legs are also long, but not flimsy at all. You just have to get used to unfolding them, and then adjusting the knobs so that they remain secure after they slide out.In terms of sturdiness, I already talked about how sturdy the legs are, but the easel itself that goes up and down in terms of incline is also sturdy. It can be completely perpendicular to the ground, which is great with oils and acrylics, or it can be a lower incline, which is great for watercolor and graphite or charcoal sketches. For graphite and charcoal, I actually tape my paper to the wooden palette that comes with the product, as it has a flat surface. But for larger pieces, you'd need to get a larger board to tape it on. The drawers are also very sturdy. The palette is large enough to have a wide variety of mixes. It is wood, so it's a little bit harder to clean up than, say, tin or plastic or ceramic. However, it is also decently thick, which is appropriate since it is so large.This is also very portable. You can store it between two cabinets or lay it down on a desk. You can even sit down and paint with this on a desk! Its legs are adjustable, so you can bring it out en Plein air and adjust it according to the terrain. There is also a lot of space to put your different paints, brushes, palette knives, erasers, rulers, tape, sponges, pencils, and other materials inside the little drawers. It's actually more space than you thought you'd get. Because of this, it's easy to put so many things inside that carrying the easel while in its small form is pretty heavy. Speaking of which, while it can be done, this isn't the type of easel that you can bring while roaming around town looking for a composition to paint. It's simply too odd a shape to either carry with one hand like a suitcase or slung around your shoulder (both are options that are provided). It would have been better if there were two slings so that you could carry it around like a backpack. Or better yet, you're better off putting this inside an actual backpack (haha!). That's not really a gripe because it's already such a space-effective product.My only gripe is that when I'm painting, there's no real secure place that I can put my mason jar full of water or turpentine in. You can slide open a drawer and place it inside, but it would just slide around. One thing you could do is to cut a hole large enough to fit a mason jar in one of the drawers, but your stuff would fall out if you put it in that one drawer (each drawer is sectioned out, so it's not a big problem). What I decided to do was to purchase one of those portable cupholders that you normally put on baby strollers and put my mason jars in them.My other disappointment with the product isn't as serious as the last since it's only a preference: I like have my mixing area attached to my easel. I don't like carrying a large palette around for several hours. There is no real fix to this that I can perceive other than sliding out one of the drawers and laying it on top of that in a way that it can't easily fall off. Or, you can keep the drawers closed and keep it behind the easel,