The Beginner: How to Make an Easel with Your Own Hands

Those who are very fond of drawing laborious andlarge enough paintings, often chosen on the nature with paints and canvas or paper. No doubt, an artist, even a beginner, needs to have an easel. This device is very convenient for drawing beautiful and orderly works. Easel is simply indispensable for the artist, but in specialized workshops this thing is unreasonably expensive. Since its design is simple enough, you can easily make an easel with your own hands. To do this, you do not need to be a highly qualified carpenter, it is enough just to have at your fingertips the necessary tools and materials, and this:

- plywood sheet 100x60cm, thickness 3-4mm;

- four wooden bars 6x2cm thick and 2m in length;

- several screws, nails, and two loops;

- jig saw for woodwork;

- Sandpaper and file;

- a hammer.

And now consider in more detail how to doan easel with your own hands. So, prepare the beams and plywood. Note that you are making this design for yourself, so try to adjust its proportions so that you feel comfortable. The standard easel usually has a height in the range of 150-170 cm, this is enough to make use of an adult, a rather tall person. Also, decide how you are going to draw - standing or sitting, as the above dimensions are calculated for the "sitting" easel.

Now, to make an easel with your own hands,it is necessary to master the basic elements of the future design, and the first thing that must be made is the legs. From the prepared bars, cut straight, equal in length, four parts. In the same way, foot fasteners are made. It is best that they are somewhat longer than the width of the plywood sheet. The blanks must be ground with sandpaper beforehand. It is not necessary to explain that if you do not, a chance to drive yourself a splinter is great. Any processing of parts must be done before they begin to assemble the structure, otherwise the grinding process will be extremely inconvenient, longer and more energy-intensive.

Continuing to make an easel with your own hands, you needit is good to fasten the legs. This is done with the help of choppers. They are made of dry wood and have a diameter of 2-2.2 cm. Two chops should be slightly longer than the width of the plywood sheet (they will be fastened with legs at the bottom), and two adjust "by eye", measuring the necessary distance between the legs at the top. Fastening in two places will make the construction more durable. Making an easel with your own hands, take the usual economic drill and make two small holes, about 2 cm in diameter, in the places where the attachment is planned. Ideally, chopiki should be driven into holes with some effort. That the design was even more strong, it is possible to grease fastenings with glue.

If you, by making an easel with your own hands, gatheredto produce a non-folding structure, then all the details can be fastened with conventional nails, but it is still better that the product folds, so it will take less space when storing. Now, when both pairs of legs are ready, they need to be fastened together. This is done with the help of loops. They are installed in 5 centimeters from the edge of the rails. Hinges are fixed to the crossbar with screws. On the two front legs you need to install cross bars, to which the sheet of plywood is nailed. It can also be screwed with screws. In order for the structure to withstand mechanical damages, temperature changes, transfer of moisture to it, it must be treated with paint or varnish. This will also give the product a more aesthetic appearance.

That's all, it remains to give the easel welldry out, and you can safely embark on your favorite pastime. After all, it's much easier to draw behind it than at a table, because you can always just walk away and look at your work from a sufficient distance. This will allow you to see some inaccuracies in the drawing that you will never see when drawing at the table.