Easel Does It!

The easel aside from the palette and the brush is the most important equipment an artist can have. Easels provide the backbone for the painting process.

It may seem as if it only serves to hold the canvas, but in fact, no self-respecting artist will start a project without one, unless, of course, he is working on a different medium such as walls and murals.

The easel is an upright apparatus that is usually held up by three legs (tripod). It is generally used to display or hold canvas.

Easel comes from the old Germanic word for donkey. Ironic enough, this language only had one word for both objects. The Easel is called esel in full German and ezel in the Dutch language. Actually, easel as an apparatus goes by the full name schildersezel, which means ‘painter’s donkey.’

The easel works by providing a tripod that can be manipulated to obtain a desired angle when painting. For example, if you choice of angle is the watercolor angle, which is 35

March 2, 2008 | Filed Under Culture and Society 
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