Watercolor Gift

Last fall I bought two Winsor & Newton Bristol Water Colour Sketching Easels on clearance from the local Hobby Lobby for a really good price - 2 for half the full price of 1. I hadn’t used either much until today. It is light & portable and would be easy to carry around in the case for plein air painting.

My drawing board (large - 22″ by something - bigger than my 18″ x 24″ watercolor paper) does not fit into it stably - perhaps it is me - it does not seem overly stable to me so I will have to hold onto it and hope it does not fly out since it is just sitting in there and not held in there. I probably will use both more for display of finished artwork when I start going to arts & crafts fairs or shows, hopefully next year. It may be a nice idea though for taking my sketching into the living room while watching painting DVD’s though - my drawing table is not portable for doing that at all and I do not want to paint on the wood dining room table - I could ruin it quite easily quite fast. After moving, I no longer have the plastic patio table for artwork close to the TV.

Light Bulb Moment!

I can use the computer here in the office to watch those How To Dvd’s while painting - I hadn’t thought about that until just now - I am not used to having a DVD Player in the computer - the old one only had a CD Player. The laptop has one too so I could watch them at work during lunch too if I wanted to do so.

Studio Easel Usage?

I do not think these will be good studio easels though at all - they do not hold the watercolor blocks or the drawing board in a stable position for actual watercolor painting - I can probably use them for sketching while holding onto it at a guess. I will try painting in watercolor using it later today - after my grandson arrives and is settled in front of the TV with his video games.