Is that a... NEW SKETCHBOOK EASEL?? Canary House is back.

This is not an tutorial video, but rather a 'jumping back in' video. If you would like a tutorial, make a comment and If there are enough I will oblige :D
I am not linking any of the materials used in this project because I honestly wasn't impressed by any of them.
I will do some research and find some good hinges that I can actually recommend.

[@colleenmcchesney1482]

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!

[@hectorrobledo6412]

Te ha quedado excelente 🎉🎉

[@Frank_Nemo]

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.

[@suzannebang2004]

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.

[@juliawhite7938]

Good luck 🎉

[@stephenwelham]

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

[@tdumnxy]

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.

[@danimaupin140]

Good suggestions! I think as children we were all a lot of things we have forgotten how to be. ❤️

[@awatercolourist]

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.

[@danimaupin140]

I got mine online, from Amazon I believe. I'm actually trying out new hinge methods because I am finding that the affordable hinges just aren't holding the way I want them to.

[@awatercolourist]

@@danimaupin140 Thanks! Best of luck 😊.

[@VanmeterFL]

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!

[@danimaupin140]

This is great! Thank you so much for sharing! I will go through all of these links properly, but I have to say that the binder clip cup ring is RIGHT up my alley. So simple! I love it! It's that whole concept where sometimes the simplest solutions are the most foolproof, now I'm thinking why mess around with magnets or hinges at all (except I live for some good old fashioned over-engineering)? I will have to experiment with this idea in other applications... I have been a life time member of the 'tool-customizer' club. Whenever I find a tool is not doing exactly what it needs to do, I love to just sit with it for a moment, and think about what I could change to make it more effective. Having worked in shops in many different situations, I am always surprised how many other people do not change their tools at all?!? I am always glad to talk to people who do and it sounds like you are no exception!

[@VanmeterFL]

@@danimaupin140 I agree 100%. I think you could come up with many ways to improve on watercolor tools. I do love your term, "over-engineering". I'm surrounded by a lot of over-engineered tools and love every single one.