Easy Velcro Hack/ My DIY Watercolor Tripod Easel for Outdoor Painting / Plein Air / Urban Sketching 

Such great ideas! Just goes to show that you don't have to spend a fortune for a plein air setup. Girl you rock!

elasticated band such a great idea! thank you!

Girl…you are the queen of diy’s! Love it!😂

Lots of great ideas here. Especially the elastic brush holder.

Very clever tray design and the easel mounting. I like simple, economical and easy! Coolio

I like the idea witj attaching an elastic especially! Everything else i did myself!

so help full love the try idea thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just had to say this again... VERY smart idea. You have not only an artist's brain, but an engineer's brain as well. You just gave me so many ideas. I think this is the best DIY I've seen in a while.

Great idea, thanks. I have a spare tripod and now I have a use for it. Gary in the UK.

This is so inspiring and very doable! I love the tray idea. Thanks so much for sharing it!

Another great design.

That's ingenious. You are so creative. I have 2 tripods from my photography. Thanks for the idea.

Very clever. Thankyou for sharing your ideas.

Very smart idea! Thanks for sharing

good Idea unique.

Hi Kimberly, Thanks for sharing....what a great idea with canvas and board...Awesome..thank you again

Brilliant!

Great! Thanks for sharing!

That's brilliant! This inspired me to do this with my camera tripod instead of buying an expensive setup. Thank you!

You are so inventive!

I made one of the canvas frames for my tripod and it works great. Thanks

Best idea

I love how creative you have been with your supplies. Thank you for sharing.

Thanks for the video!

Greetings, Kimberly - so glad that I discovered your channel. $4?!!!! - that's a pretty good bargain, isn't it? I've been agonising over easels for some time as all seem to be too 'upright' for my watercolour style. I've got a couple of painting easels from my distant past but they do not lend themselves to slanting or near-horizontal applications. I then got the message over tripods and found my camera tripod was ideal. It even had a quick-release mechanism which I fixed to the underside of my board. It also fits into a special sleeve in my backpack! I was over the moon. I can also lower it so that I can take a folding stool to work with it. Old bones! I am impressed with your mixture of invention, improvisation and thoughtful investment. I am currently working up steam to create a 'utility shelf' similar to your own. I'm taking my time so a to get it right for what I need - we are all so similar but all so different and that's the beauty of it. Returning to my art has given me a boost of morale after 2yrs of imposed Covid 'semi-house-arrest'! Hope that this Covid curse is getting better over the pond. Now for 'something completely different'. I would love to share some stuff with you. I'm a septuagenarian UK clergy pensioner - I'm not a stalker, deviant or 'troll' and my wife knows I'm pretty harmless. I would love you to get back to me on my email address so that I can send you some some ideas I've got for my three kits - minimalist, intermediate and full outdoor set-ups to compare and for your input. No offence if you turn the idea down. I'm paulskillings1146@gmail.com I'll remove this address and paragraph after 7 days to avoid nutters. I don't do social media but I do do illustrated emails. Thanks again for your inspirational vids. Every good wish to you and yours for a Happy New Year. Paul in the UK Midlands

Genius

Great set-up Kimberly. I love the elasticated band for holding brushes etc. Those cotton candy skies look nice that you painted too! I want to do some en plein air painting this year so I bought a bracket off e-bay for about $10 with a tripod screw which I then glued to the bottom of my wooden easel and it sits on my tripod really well. I might try the canvas frame idea for a tray.

Great job on your set up! Functional, inexpensive and creative, and it will do all you need it to do ! FANTASTIC

You have the best ideas! So creative! Thank you so much for sharing.

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This is super cool Kimberly!! I definitely love that....gosh I've completely blanked on what to call it🙄😳 brain fog, boy it'll get ya😳 .... the frame you basically turned into a table to hook on you tripod! Awesome idea!! Especially cuz you can a lot of times find nice wood ones like that with a random painting on it at a thrift store for next to nothing and its even cheaper. Awesome idea!! :) Your sky's look beautiful so far!! I finally did my practice rover rock stacks :) it was fun, was having a decent day physically a bit ago and did all 3 at the same time since I was trying different stuff on each. Some I liked, some not as much....but, since I knew it was just for practice, it was really fun to just play and do what I wanted instead of what I normally do which is only do it for gifts or thank you cards where I'm trying to make it very personal to them..so, it was fun :) I look forward to seeing you painting out there, looks beautiful!! We're about to get hit pretty decent by this massive storm coming across the states top to bottom, so no outside painting for me :) I hope where you are it stays beautiful and your all safe n sound :) Thanks again for sharing your fun ideas :)

Very nice setup, love how you made the tray, what size canvas did you use to make the tray?