En Plein Air Pro Easel Review

3/30/2019

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.