Body Easel
Thanks Chris for this unusual class! I would have never thought of making something like a body easel. I haven't painted much outside, but I thought this may help me to do that!
I used a 11x14 inch canvas board for the board part, one I had and wasn't using anyway. I used a 1.5 cm wide green ribbon underneath the board, and for the harness. For the loops I found some key chains in my drawer. With this confinement times there was only so much I could find, and nowhere to go buy this kind of materials. Used fridge magnets I wasn't using for the magnets, and glued them onto the board.
I was lucky to find old tin medication flat boxes (in an old sewing chest I have from my grandma, more over this one in another project! :-) ) for the watercolor paint, as well as 2 peanut butter jar caps. So far I put 2 yellows on one, 2 reds in one, one blue and one green and a dot of black in the other one, leaving me with the last one for white. I will use the little tin lids as mixing palettes.
I sewed elastics on velcro that I attach to 3M Command strips glued next to the magnets, for the brushes - or pens, pencils etc. Then I found a kitchen clip (the red one) to keep the paper to fall off the board. Right now I am working on 9x6 inches paper, so the size is great. I also glued the magnets so that I could turn the paper in both directions, portrait as well as landscape.
Open 'palettes':
Tins/palettes closed:
Then I fastened a water bottle to one of the key chains, and a spritzer to moisten the paints with a little rope to one other key chain.
See the spritzer?
The only thing I am missing, is a metallic tin of some sort, to rinse my brush into, as I can not find any right now! I will need to get one, or magnets to glue onto a small recipient. For now, I am only going to paint outside in my back yard, so I can very well take a glass jar and put it down on the ground.