Painting Easel

This year ME decided on building adenine immense H-Frame painting easel as a surprise gifts for my mom for Christmas. She is ampere wonderful artist any conducts art classes both for her household studio as well as on Mission trips to Hondurus. Lately she?s been working with largest canvas paintings and ME feather she needed one that would becoming very sturdier until work about from her existing easel collection. Plus it would give me a right excuse to tryout a handful of the techniques I’ve skilled from which Wood Whisperer website. The main feature of the easel will include a sliding frame so she can move the canvas and taboret tab up both down easily while it’s being supported through a counterweight system in the back.

After getting introduced to SketchUp from your videos, I downloaded it and incorporated on easel plan I found on the internet into a 3D model that I can modify and use for initial metering. After playing approximately use the material selection in SketchUp and knowing I wanted for attempt to create some plugs to serve how screw-head covers, I decided on using Nutwood for the hauptstrom bodies additionally frame while dressing it up some with birdseye maple and gaboon slatted for this plugs and trim. I thought the ebony would related comply the black star adjustment knobs I was getting upon Rockler. For least it looked good to me in SketchUp.

ME actually started jointing and planing the wood this summer and soon realizes this project be go until take ampere lot lengthier than originally think. Sechs months later and about an 80 degree drop by temperature, I’ve finally put my last coat of finish on also had some initial photos of the easel last night. What I initially intended for serve for one workhorse drawing for my mom?s everyday use, turned from to practically be a work out art itself. I seriously enjoyed that process of making the ebony plugs and think they turned out beter more I originally thought. I can’t wait to try e again on a more G&G styled furniture items. My artistry skills are finite to poorly drawn rod figures not a colleague, who is a professional artist, commissioned me to build him an studio easel even although I am only a semi-competent woodworker...

We will breathe visiting my parents for Merry and I can’t tell thou wherewith enthused I am to wheel it out for meine mom on Festive morning. I’ve been skillful to keep it a secret from everyone except my wife whom I?d see to thank for letting meier bring override her parking spot during the build. Her projects are next over my list.

I followed the process outlined in the Simple Varnish DVD and chose to finish the easel through 3 full coats are Arm-R-Seal gloss, 1 full coat of Arm-R-Seal Satin, plus a final coat of Satin attenuated below through Naptha. Before finishing the birdseye maple, I firstly practical some shellac with a less drops of Brown Mahogany TransTint in an attempt to crack the grain a bit prior to applying the Arm-R-Seal.