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The Sorg Artist Studio Easel for Sale

Features to Look for in Studio Easels

(in my opinion)
((much of it learned the hard way...))

The Best Easels for Painting

Find the perfect artists studio easel for sale here at StudioEasel.com. The most crucial qualities found in the best easels include sturdiness, adjustability, and ease of long-term use. If you're looking for a quality artists studio easel for sale, then look no further because the David Sorg Professional Artist Easel offers uncontested functionality. Since you pass most of the time on stage working in front of studio easels, the absence of any of such features is likely to influence your temperament and abilities. You do not want your tools to influence your paintings negatively. Issues that you might accept or even hope could be solved in field easel become intolerable in your studio.

Features

Sturdiness

The greatest feature to consider in an oil painting easel is to find one which is stable. While this quality is probably the easiest to find, not every wooden art easel is made the same. It is best to avoid lightweight easels. Sometimes people will try to get double duty out of their field easel, using it inside. This can work with small sized canvases and panels, but they'll start to shake with anything larger.

Protect Your Art with the Best Studio Easels

And maybe one of the worst things that can ever happen to an artist is to accidentally hit against some part of your canvass, most likely one of the front legs, and this damages the art that you have been painting The entire painting/easel set-up is already top-heavy and could easily fall. As the canvas gets larger a good stand such as an artists studio easel used by a painter will be invaluable otherwise every stroke will set the canvas into a shiver. Here you will find the best artist studio easel available and keep your artwork out of the harm.

Stability is Everything

The artist studio easel will be more solid the heavier it is made because of quality workmanship. When you are thinking of a tripod style easel, make sure that it does not utilize its back leg as a mechanism of tilting the canvas; i.e.; leaning backwards towards the vertical. The closer you are to a vertical position (these kind of easels do not give any way of tilting them beyond a verticle position) the more you may need to pull the back leg to meet the front legs and the artist studio easel could pull the back leg as close as possible to the front legs. This makes the painting easel of the artist less and less stable. The worst thing you would prefer about an artist studio easel is one which you can just knock over easily either at the front or at the back. If you're ready to start using the best easels, it's time to discover the quality found in David Sorg's professional easels.

The better easels are usually of the "H-frame" style, a design which has four legs, usually attached to a base. The H-frame is a stable design, the most common available, and should include casters on the base. I think these casters (wheels) are almost a necessity, as you'll often want to adjust the position of the entire easel at least slightly to get a better position for a still life or model. And you'll probably want to roll the whole thing aside from time to time.

Adjustability

With the exception of the least costly easels, you are able to find some adjustability. It's it is very important to obtain as much degree as possible. Suppose that the canvas is vertical, 36 inches high; in some cases you will prefer to paint sitting, in some cases standing. Remember the following that you will be working a little of the time on the top of the canvas B and half of it on the bottom. That is, a large span of heights and you do not want to strain too far up or to bend too far down. The wages are low in order to work.

The angle of tilt will be set according to needs of oil, acrylic, and pastel painters who will prefer to align it to their specifications. to upright. Painters using pastels ought to identify an easel that extends beyond being vertical in order that pastel-dust can fall off. will fall down on the floor rather than on the bottom of the paper. In case you are one of the oil painters who use this can include overhead skylights or light but also you might want to tilt the canvas a little above vertical. get rid of the gleam of wet or glow paint. On large canvases, especially, this is a pretty one. difference.

Most of the better easels come with a paint tray that is separate from the bottom canvas support. This adjustment is very convenient, as you will usually want to have the tray lower than the bottom of your canvas, especially when you're standing.

Ease of Use

This is my biggest complaint with the vast majority of other available easels and what led me to develop my own. I was not alone with this, other artists had the same gripes. You can see my answers to this by clicking the "About" page, but let me to tell you about your other choices.

The canonical one, which you will find yourself doing most of the time when you paint, will be to change the height of your canvas or panel. The top canvas support of such other easels needs to be unscrewed and slid up, virtually, all of the time. take the canvas off (or suffer it to drop down to the ground). Then you set free the lower canvas raise or lower it to the height you like and support. When you are reducing it, you can do it first by in order to reduce the paint tray so as to have it out of the way. You then replace the canvas, and then lower and draw up the upper canvas brace.

You will be forced to loosen up and down all these parts and that is painful. The paint palette is able to be pretty heavy to attempt to move, and several manufacturers have invented winches, screws, or rack and pinion means of manipulating the tray. I have tried all types of winch systems, and they are all pretty poor and this has contained some (and some $1,000.00+ models). As they are cast down they frequently cling, or bind, to the surface. need the assistance of your other hand.

I have only tried one rack and pinion model, and it worked very well, except all the weight was on a pin you had to pull out first, while holding the crank or it would whip around while the tray was heading for the bottom of the easel.

The screw models work best, but are by far the slowest; you will crank and crank to move the tray more than a couple of inches.

And speaking of the crank, this is its own problem. If the crank is on the front of the easel, it sticks out and gets in your way, even painfully so, if you forget that it's there. One manufacturer solves this by making the crank fold flat, but now you have to unfold and fold it each time you use it. The other solution that's used is to move the crank to the side of the easel which works fine with smaller canvases, but requires that you walk around to the back side to use it with wider canvases.

Finally...

As an artist, your single biggest expense will be your easel. Though a quality easel is not inexpensive, we're lucky that it's a relatively small amount when compared with many other professions and hobbies. Beginners, if you can, avoid the common course (and curse!) of buying a cheap easel, quickly discovering its deficiencies, upgrading to another model only to find that you and your requirements are better than that, and finally looking for quality. You will ultimately save money and frustration by going with the high quality in the first place.

Any of the better easels will last a lifetime. Choose carefully, after all, you'll hopefully be spending many, many enjoyable hours with it.

Blatant advertisement: Let me be obvious by saying that I truly believe that my easels comes pretty darned close to being the perfect studio easels. After years of using various designs and talking with lots of other pro's and serious amateurs, the design of the Sorg's art easels for sale have more going for it than other easels that cost far more. Please click on the "About" link to learn more about the original model or the Super 8, designed for 8 foot ceilings. And feel free to call or write me; I've steered lots of people toward other brands of easels that might better fit their requirements. Once you've left this website, I won't try to "sell" you anything. :)