Thank you for introducing me to this amazing artist - and for persevering through the heckler :)

You are genius…and entertaining! Thank you for sharing.😊

So dang clever.

Well done! Thank you

This is really cool :0 I love your exploring attitude about the process of making things you like!

Absolutely beautiful books of art! 6:23 It would be cool 166 pages to be a reference to the Mad Hatter (10/6=1,66)

Lol, I thought the hanging bolts were just going to be counter weights or something because you said it was ridiculously over engineered. Then when you snapped them to the magnets was so satisfying and just enough engineered!

I love 💕 the additional water container holder on the popular easel. I am wondering how or if a brush tray or holder with holes 🕳 would look on the opposite side of the water container with the easel would work & look. Definitely would love to see an upcoming video of how your workshop looks when you get the chance of cleaning & organizing it. I am having the same issue with getting my artist shed/studio organized for me to use properly. Keep up the wonderful work, videos, & inspiration for building things! Thanks for sharing this with us!

Oh wow that’s cool that you made a matt for the easel & a water jar container setup. A fantastic idea that I am going to have to give a try! I love 💕 these modifications!! I have made my versions of the James Gurney easel from 3 different sizes of bamboo cutting boards (4 inches x 6 inches, 8 inches x 10 inches, & 9 inches x 12 inches). Thanks for sharing this wonderful informational video with us!! 🥰

Te ha quedado excelente 🎉🎉

10:55 It looks (?) like your T Nut is fitted the wrong way around. The large end of the T Nut needs to be on the opposite side of the wood to the tripod. Otherwise, when you really tighten up the tripod screw it'll start pulling out the T Nut.

I have been wanting to design my own as well, loved your ideas and I want to "borrow" some or all of them. I have been using some of that friction mat to unironically capture cat litter when Artie the cat steps out of his box. bravo on all the ideas.

Excellent, thanks for sharing. I first came to your first video way back, and then this one because I was curious if you made it again, and if so, what adaptations you made. I had checked out the adaptation James Gurney made to his easel/palette for painting in his vehicle, because that is something I would like to do, or could do. Life has been tough on me as well, and I can’t do most things that I had been able to do. I had been a fully-functioning adult before, imagine that. Anyway, I’m in your comments section to see if there are any measurements, tips or tricks. I will say, I’m surprised your using the clamps you use, instead of something like this quick-release clamp set, where you slide it, then squeeze it with your hand to tighten it. You press the button to release it, and hot damn it’s so quick and easy to use! shorturl.at/tEFLT This is a Jorgensen set, but there must be lots of other brands like DeWalt, etc.

Lol at your Sandra Bullock moment at 4:26, but actually you’re reminding me of her all the way through. 😁

plenty of picnic tables to lean on. That's a lot of frumpy..

Try making a liter version in plywood I made one and it worked out well it’s just the basic version but I used self adhesive magnetic strip for paint boxes

Nice job!. I was thinking about making them, but I found a place that makes them. We'll see .......Thanks for sharing.

"cool! cool! cool!", says the organizational nerd in me!!! Thank you!

I have just found you and i can relate to your situation except for the snow. How people can live in snow amazes me. i look forward to seeing your journey through creativity. I am inspired to get my artistic journey back on track and know that a community of diverse people can be a wonderful support.

Try self sticky magnet strips from magnets 4 you

Thanks for sharing your method of making a James Gurney-style easel. I like both your original and the two you made here. I’m trying to DIY an easel myself, but I can’t find torsion hinges where I live.

I was watching several of the Urban Sketchers Symposium videos and came across this clever one that I think you will love. It's only for the "over-engineer-minded", so beware. 😂kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYbVZ6aBh89on7c

I'm guessing you've heard of Morgan Dimeler and her wonderful writing❤

Wonderful share, thank you. ❤

I only just found you today! I watched your video showing your customized James Gurney-style easel and fell in love with you (yes you, because your mind works like mine). We are an engineering family (my husband, son, and brother-in-law have engineering degrees and I was a reference librarian/custom home builder/clothing store owner/realtor/engineer-wanna-be, and jack of all trades). I took up watercolor painting after our daughter discovered she had cancer as a way to cope, I was discouraged by how many artist tools really need customization to make them work. I'll grant you that we all have our own desires and needs (thus your customization to the Gurney easel) but some things just don't make sense about our tools. I'm wondering if your engineer-savvy brain could be used to "perfect" these flaws (maybe we should say, "customize" these wonderful tools instead of mentioning their flaws). Is it possible your channel could be a haven for those of us who are always fiddling with tools? From our palettes, tripods, brush holders/hangers, studio setups, easels, baby wipe holder or eco-friendly birdseye cloths, ... the list is endless, there are so many possibilities. Here's an example: Watercolor palettes are usually designed WRONG. If you care about your expensive brushes, you want your paint well to be at an angle that allows your brush to easily access the paint without damaging the brush. That seems logical! Many of the plein air palettes use hard-to-access half or full pans that are near impossible to use. I found an engineer/watercolor painter in Florida who makes really amazing palettes. Rober Baxter, www.robax.com/palettes.html, designed palettes that sit on a rotating base that allow you to turn the wells to the correct angle. I have both the 32-well and the 24-sloping well palette in my studio but for travel sketching, I designed a rotating 12-well palette (then added 3 half pans for powerful phthalos and a quin in the center) and put it into a 5" flat aluminum tin. I love the wells because each of the wedge-shaped wells holds 1 full and 1/2 pans of fluid (7.2 ml). That gives you room to mix the consistency of paint you need IN the well (if you just put a supply of paint at an angle at one end). I added white Gorilla Grip shelf lining to the lid for a mixing surface but also found these amazing Gansai pans that hold 7.2 ml of fluid (the same size as the Robax 32 wells above) that are 4.7 cm X 2.8 cm and glued magnets on the bottom so I can fit 6 of these large wells in the lid to mix in. OK, this is going long, but you'd be amazed at how a couple simple "perfections" to the simple Loew-Cornell paint brush holder make it twice as useful. I glued a 2" PVC pipe in the center top for long-handled brushes and rulers and glued a cloth roll-up cosmetic brush holder around the outside to more than double its capacity. Then I glued it to a rotating base for easy access to all my tools. tinyurl.com/fmf5jazv Well, you get my drift. I think artists love to share hacks, tricks, modifications, customizations, and perfections they've made or tools they have found. Having been involved in theatre work in college, I know you have to have a very creative mind to solve many of our problems. BTW, here is a link to a water container holder you might just LOVE for future use: tinyurl.com/bd8d7av9 I've used it with a collapsible silicone cup and it is awesome!

Good luck 🎉

The first video of yours I saw was the original one you did about a James Gurney style easel. Your new 'blank canvas' seems to want decoration or embellishment. Maybe pyro/burning or carving or water colour washes. Or perhaps fake aging to look as though it belonged to your Gt. Grandmother a hundred years ago. My garage workspace is currently unusable and I feel the need to do something about that. We were all makers once as kids.

Amazon book.

Be careful will not rust without coating... never comfortable with his size for sketch book... though would make own, binding bigger.

He’s a god.

There’s more now... special edition printed.

Wonderful!

The art, beautiful. Being told "we don't destroy books", like I'm a toddler... not so much

Very cool

Magnet cup wins "wow that's genius!" award

So creative!

Great video and build.

Great upgrade! I will be making an easel using the modifications you came up with. You are lovely! May you and yours stay healthy and hopefully happy! .

Hi Dani- Have you made the easel in a size that will fit into the A5 ArtToolkit?

Hello everyone i have same works arts H.Kley Who can help me figure out

Is this hard to get ?

Brilliant! And so light and compact..

thank you for sharing this im excited to try your modifications on my own easel.

Hi, may i know your measurements? I need it for my ducks shoes. Thanks 🙏🏻

Will you do a review of Volume 2?

bless your soul for showing the pages

Thank you so much for making and posting this !!

Thank you so much for sharing! I love it!!!!!!!! 🥰

Fantástica arte

I just bought the exact same tension torque hinges for my James Gurney Easel. This video is super helpful thanks. I wanna cut my hinges like you did, so they sit flush. I am a bit worried it will weaken the hinge. However looking at yours doesn’t seem like a problem.