Eric Alexander Santoli
  • HOME
  • BIO
  • PORTFOLIO
    • DRAWINGS
    • WATERCOLORS
    • OIL PAINTINGS
  • COMMISSIONS
  • TEACHING
  • LINKS
  • CONTACT
  • BLOG

En Plein Air Pro Easel Review

3/30/2019

0 Comments

 
  This past week, I decided to look at some easels from a company that my friend recommended called En Plein Air Pro.  I checked out their website and decided to buy The Professional Series Oil and Acrylic Easel and the Traveler Package with Sunpak 2001UT Tripod.
 For plein air painting, I have always used my Jullian Classic French easel, which I love, but it's pretty heavy and doesn't fold down easily.  The En Plein Air Pro Easel's are very lightweight and fold down very easily.  The watercolor easel even fits into a backpack.  There's a lot of small touches that I also really appreciate about these easels.  For instance, the watercolor easel comes with a collapsible water cup (made by Faber-Castell) that fits into the palette shelf.  The oil painting easel comes with a turp cup that fits into its easel palette shelf.  As a side note, the oil painting easel can hold canvases OR panels.
 Both of the easels have sturdy palette shelves that have holes for standard brush sizes to keep your brushes upright and organized.  The palette of the oil painting easel also has a value scale built into the palette.  The palette itself is made of plexiglass glass and can be upgraded to tempered glass as an addition.  I didn't upgrade because I prefer a wooden palette instead of glass or plexiglass.  
  One of the main reasons I chose these easels is because most of the pieces (aside from the tripods) are made in USA.  The tripods are made overseas in Asia, but they're still good quality.  All of the other parts are made in USA (Texas).
  Another nice part of this company is that the shipping was super fast.  I placed my order on Tuesday and got my easels on Sunday via Fedex.  I field tested my watercolor easel today and I have to say it worked great.  I plan on using my oil painting easel very soon.  I definitely recommend these easels to the modern day artist/adventurer.  Check them out and order one.  
*This review was not sponsored by En Plein Air Pro.  I'm simply a fan of their products.
everything was very nicely wrapped
collapsible water cup for watercolor
sight glass level built into the watercolor easel
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Archives

    March 2023
    February 2023
    January 2023
    December 2022
    November 2022
    October 2022
    September 2022
    August 2022
    July 2022
    June 2022
    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    January 2022
    December 2021
    November 2021
    October 2021
    September 2021
    August 2021
    July 2021
    June 2021
    May 2021
    April 2021
    March 2021
    February 2021
    January 2021
    December 2020
    November 2020
    October 2020
    September 2020
    August 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    December 2019
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    June 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    December 2013
    November 2013
    October 2013

    Categories

    All
    Academic
    Canvas
    Color
    Colorblindness
    Drawing
    En Plein Air
    Frames
    Motorcycles
    Music
    Oil Painting
    Pet Portraits
    Philosophy
    Portraiture
    Progress
    Reading
    Reviews
    Skateboarding
    Teaching
    Technique
    Varnishing
    Watercolor
    Writing

    RSS Feed

​​© ERIC ALEXANDER SANTOLI 2023 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

  • HOME
  • BIO
  • PORTFOLIO
    • DRAWINGS
    • WATERCOLORS
    • OIL PAINTINGS
  • COMMISSIONS
  • TEACHING
  • LINKS
  • CONTACT
  • BLOG