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DANIEL SMITH Grand Voyage with FREE DANIEL SMITH Art Easel!

Expand your horizons with the entire collection of DANIEL SMITH Extra Fine TM Watercolors!

When you choose DANIEL SMITH Watercolors, your work will benefit from the extensive research put into all of our materials. Our passion for color is only the beginning; the rest of the story is yours to tell.

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Our Grand Voyage set contains every watercolor we make, giving you a world of painting possibilities. Every one of our Extra Fine Watercolors. Every one of our Luminescents. All made with the finest pigments from every corner of the globe. And all at one truly outstanding price.

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Great for watercolor work, It can be used sitting or standing – and a full range of angles from vertical to horizontal is possible.

Made with solid American Ash, it features a large wood tray with ample storage space. Four lockable wheel casters make it easy to transport and secure.

Measures 71″ to 40″h, 26″w, 30″deep
Table height 36″
Weights 64.5lbs.

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Do you like to draw? If so, please visit our Prismacolor Pencils website, where you’ll find a great selection of colored pencils and other fine art supplies.  New to drawing?  Check out our drawing tips too!

I am enjoying my tabletop easel on the back porch this summer. After experiencing a blistery, cold winter full of snow this year, I decided that needed to get some fresh air and set-up my studio outside. Rather than worry about getting the outdoor furniture full of paint and other art materials, I bought myself a used table with locking wheels to use outside. This summer, comfort was going to be a top priority. My rolling table cart, with a middle shelf, perfectly accommodates my tabletop easel and art supplies. In addition to painting, I do a lot of drawing using Prismacolor Pencils. With my new state of summer mind, I am getting into the mindset of Monet – capturing my surroundings at different times of day.

For outside the studio, I really like the Utrecht Tabletop Sketch Box, which is a combination tabletop easel and paint/drawing box. It has a convenient divided, slide-out draw where I can store my art supplies. It is neat and easy to carry about, whether it is just outside the house or to some other location, due to its carrying handle and brass clip closures. It is nice and compact, measuring 16 1/2″ x 15″ x 4″ when folded. It can accommodate canvases or drawing pads up to 34″, compared with the Richeson Sketch Box that expands to 33” in height. Here is a picture of this neat little tabletop easel:

For practical purposes, I tend to not keep my supplies in my tabletop easel, but in a separate art box. The reason is that I would rather keep my trays clean for each project and use it them only for organizational purposes. As we artists know, art materials can become very messy and I’d rather work with clean trays, where I can switch my materials in and out easily. Charcoal and pastel dust is sometimes harder to clean up than oil paint, so for those items, I like to keep them isolated from them rest of my supplies. So, that is my fetish.

If you are looking for a tabletop easel that costs less, you’ll most likely have to sacrifice some height. Less expensive desktop easels generally don’t expand much higher than 24”

Written by Brenne Meirowitz, BA, MA, MS
© 2010-2011 Brenne Meirowitz & Tabletop Easel. All Rights Reserved.

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Tabletop Easel provides easy access to thousands of easels and art supplies online through our affiliates, sponsors, and advertisers. Additionally, we  provide information and product resources, such as Prismacolor Pencils, for creative artists of all levels.  Because drawing is the foundation for building visual art expression and skill, students in particular will benefit from tips and guides offered on this website.

Our editor, Brenne Meirowitz, BA, MS, MA earned her degrees from the University of Texas, Pratt Institute, and Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Her major fields of study were Modern European Intellectual History, Art & Design Education, and Fine Art.  Therefore, the advice and tips offered by Tabletop Easel comes from a recognized and experienced working artist.

While working on her MA (2004-2007), she taught undergraduate classes in Art History, Studio Art, Music, and History at the University of Texas at Dallas. After graduating from Pratt Institute in 2002, Brenne worked as an art teacher at Westhampton Beach Elementary School, taught Hebrew school at the Jewish Center of the Hamptons, and worked as an art teacher at the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York.  She also offers private art lessons.

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Tabletop easels are convenient and practical for the traveling artist.  I prefer the Academy Clamp on Table Easel, because it can attach to almost any stable surface whether it is a stool or desktop corner. This is particularly convenient if your surface space is limited. It is light and can easily fit into an average sized suitcase or carry-on luggage.  Personally, I far more prefer using a tabletop easel than a masonite clip sketchboard, particularly because I am so used to draw from an easel.  Anytime I have tried to use a sketchboard, I end up propping it up on my lap, which is really not very comfortable.  The worst mistake I made when using a sketchboard was that I forgot to cover my lap.  I was using Prismacolor pastels and charcoal, and the dust of these products got all over my pants! Secondly, trying to hold the board upright in one position proved to be so frustrating that I just gave up drawing for the rest of my trip.

Since that experience, I bring along my tabletop easel. After my earlier experience, I make sure to cover the table and surrounding area before I begin to paint or draw.  Another favorable attribute of the tabletop easel is that you can also use it for painting, while the drawing board is strictly used for drawing – as its name implies. A clamp on table easel, such as the one made by Academy, is also more versatile, as far as size of canvas or drawing paper you wish to use. The clamp on easel has almost all the benefits of a full size easel, without the extra bulk or cost. I suggest that you weigh a chair down to avoid tipping it over should you need to lean on your easel. You may want to put your paint box on the chair, making it into a sort of makeshift French easel. Again, compared to a French easel, a tabletop easel can be purchased at a fraction of the cost.

With regard to convenience, especially for those of us who are no longer able to stand for lengthy periods of time, a tabletop easel solves that problem. Because it is attachable to most tables or stools, those pieces of furniture are already designed at a level for of a seated person. Additionally, you can spread all of your supplies on the table where you are working – also within reachable distance. If you enjoy doing still life, the tabletop easel is ideal, because you, your canvas, and the still life are all at the same level, which makes it easier to draw with regard to perspective.

Written by Brenne Meirowitz, BA, MA, MS
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