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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Thu May 27, 2010 11:49 pm | |
| Hubby made me a pochade box, I have a panel holder that I attach to my bogan manfratto tripod. I just need a cup with a hanger, etc., to put my water in. Kimberly | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sat May 29, 2010 11:07 pm | |
| Still needs a finish, will work on that tomorrow! | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sat May 29, 2010 11:08 pm | |
| The box is 16x20 inches closed. It's a combo of walnut and baltic birch plywood, and was made by my hubby to work with my bogan manfratto tripod. He's making a panel board holder for me, right now actually, out of cherry. Note the variety of woods, they are from the cast offs in his studio ;-) | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sun May 30, 2010 8:36 am | |
| That looks great. Do you (or does he) mind if I copy the concept. I have all the wood (scrap and not scrap), the tripod, all the tools and even the piano hinges, to make it. I do a lot of wood working, but haven't over the past two years because of my breathing, but this looks like I could handle it without too much problem.
Thanks for sharing. Judy | |
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Callie Moderator
Posts : 1233 Join date : 2009-11-21 Location : St. Louis, MO USA
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sun May 30, 2010 9:58 am | |
| Very nice! How does the box attach to the tripod? | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sun May 30, 2010 2:19 pm | |
| - Callie wrote:
- Very nice! How does the box attach to the tripod?
Little wooden arms. | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sun May 30, 2010 2:23 pm | |
| - judyfilarecki wrote:
- That looks great. Do you (or does he) mind if I copy the concept. I have all the wood (scrap and not scrap), the tripod, all the tools and even the piano hinges, to make it. I do a lot of wood working, but haven't over the past two years because of my breathing, but this looks like I could handle it without too much problem.
Thanks for sharing. Judy I guess not, you REALLY should make a box to suit your needs though, this box will work very well for me in the field since I work in mixed media and do incorporate things and other mediums in my paintings while painting. As I said it's not finished yet. I looked at a LOT of boxes before I handed him a design, I could have bought something off the internet but each one had issues that would have required a work around on my part. I have a tackle box that holds plastic bins, inside of the bins are different paints types and or pastels, to use as my field box, note I dont' paint far from my truck, because I AM the kind of artist that gets out to the field thinking I was going to paint in oils and suddenly want to use gouache or even pastels. This set up allows me to put whatever palette I need to use into the box, instead of having 4 pochade boxes dedicated to 4 different mediums. Kimberly | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sun May 30, 2010 9:35 pm | |
| I like the design because of the flexibility of it. The work space looks just about right, also. I've never done plein air except once on a cactus outside my front door.
My goal this summer is to try some.
Judy | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sun May 30, 2010 9:55 pm | |
| - judyfilarecki wrote:
- I like the design because of the flexibility of it. The work space looks just about right, also. I've never done plein air except once on a cactus outside my front door.
My goal this summer is to try some.
Judy Check these out first then http://artboxandpanel.com/ http://www.judsonsart.com/ProductCart/pc/default.asp There are a couple of others that make and sell plein air boxes as well. I wanted to be able to use my tripod, last thing I need is another easel to trip over! there's another guy whose boxes I absolutely loved but have not been able to find his site again. Kimberly | |
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Janet Moderator
Posts : 2050 Join date : 2009-11-15 Location : North Bay, Ontario Canada
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon May 31, 2010 7:22 am | |
| Great idea to make your own pochade box so can take the features you want an incorporate them in the box. Hmmm I think I'm going to put my hubby to work. Thank you for sharing! | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon May 31, 2010 8:01 am | |
| Thanks Kimberly, I'll check them out. Judy | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon May 31, 2010 10:23 am | |
| Here's the other pochade box maker http://allaprimapochade.com/yellowstone_lite/yellowstone_lite.html | |
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Jim Moderator
Posts : 171 Join date : 2009-12-28 Location : Cody, Wyoming
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon May 31, 2010 11:07 am | |
| Hi Janet;
I use an Open Box M pochade box (www.openboxm.com) with a Manfrotto tripod with a ball head. I also use that tripod with my cameras for taking pictures of my paintings. I leave one tripod attachment accessory on the box all the time. I have another in the camera bag. The attachment has a quick release, so its very easy to use with both the box and cameras. I much prefer the pochade box to a french easel. It's lighter and easier to set up. The tip about the rock bag is right on. Here in windy Wyoming you don't leave home without it! Most days this precludes using an umbrella for shade. | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon May 31, 2010 2:25 pm | |
| - Jim wrote:
The tip about the rock bag is right on. Here in windy Wyoming you don't leave home without it! Most days this precludes using an umbrella for shade. My husband asked me what I was going to do about windy days, it can really blow here in Iowa as well, and I told him to throw in a couple of bungee cords and I'll attach the tripod to my field box, it weighs about 20 pounds fully loaded. Again I don't ever paint far from my vehicle so having a field box that's this large isn't much of a problem for me, although if it were in a backpack format I'd like it much better | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon May 31, 2010 2:28 pm | |
| - Jim wrote:
I use an Open Box M pochade box (www.openboxm.com) with a Manfrotto tripod with a ball head.. I'm gonna have to order their tripod mount for the boxes! From the looks of it it'll work very nicely with my panel holder and the plus side is it'll work with a palm box as well, something else I''m planning on having hubby make me Kimberly | |
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Janet Moderator
Posts : 2050 Join date : 2009-11-15 Location : North Bay, Ontario Canada
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:20 am | |
| Hi Jim! Thank you for the tip! The Open Box appear to be very nice and I will go with that option or something similar. I never thought about the fact that it would be lighter and easier to set up so that would be really important to me. Kimberly, Thank you for sharing your additional insights! Many things to consider which I wouldn't have thought of. | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Sun Jun 06, 2010 7:51 pm | |
| Here's some pics of my set up now that it's finished! I have to say I'm LOVING this a lot!!! John designed it so that my masterson's stay wet palette fits inside and just perfectly! | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
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Janet Moderator
Posts : 2050 Join date : 2009-11-15 Location : North Bay, Ontario Canada
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon Jun 07, 2010 7:36 am | |
| Kimberly, That looks like a great set up. I use the Masterson Stay Wet palette as well and I really like your idea of using it inside your pochade box. I don't like using a glass palette because it does seem really difficult to clean.
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon Jun 07, 2010 10:54 am | |
| I have a question about the stay wet. I use one for acrylics with the wet sponge in the bottom. Do you use the wet sponge also when using it for the WS oils?
Judy | |
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Callie Moderator
Posts : 1233 Join date : 2009-11-21 Location : St. Louis, MO USA
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon Jun 07, 2010 12:36 pm | |
| I like the way your board is held in place without clamps covering the top and bottom of it. I always have to touch up those spots when I get home and get it off my easel | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:13 pm | |
| - judyfilarecki wrote:
- I have a question about the stay wet. I use one for acrylics with the wet sponge in the bottom. Do you use the wet sponge also when using it for the WS oils?
Judy My palette doesn't use a sponge it's the one with the lid that has the gasket system. HTH. You can put the sponge in the palette but I don't like it. Kimberly | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Mon Jun 07, 2010 1:13 pm | |
| - Callie wrote:
- I like the way your board is held in place without clamps covering the top and bottom of it. I always have to touch up those spots when I get home and get it off my easel
Tht was a major complaint of mine as well. | |
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judyfilarecki Moderator
Posts : 2685 Join date : 2009-11-16 Location : Northern NY and Southern Arizona
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Thu Jun 24, 2010 6:51 pm | |
| You all are going to laugh at me, but as I was reading about Kimberly's husband's project, I remembered I had a tripod that I had to make a pivot head for because the original one had broken. I made the connection with wood and slipped it onto the vertical tube of the tripod. That worked so well and is easily removable, so I decided to do something similar with a piece of 1/2-inch baltic birch plywood I had. It worked like a charm, and I just use my favorite table top easel on it and I can move that back and forth or side to side as I want. The plywood is 20 1/2-inches wide by 23-inches deep (that just happened to be the size of the piece that was laying around doing nothing in my workshop). It is good and sturdy, and I can vouch for that. Mozart, my 12 pound cat, figured it was the newest high place he could jump on, and it didn't budge an inch. Tomorrow I'm off to a quilt show in a town along one of the rivers here in the Adirondacks. IF the sun is shining ???? I'll give some plein air a try. Judy | |
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kbaxterpackwood
Posts : 94 Join date : 2010-01-22 Location : Iowa
| Subject: Re: Your set up for plein air Thu Jun 24, 2010 7:29 pm | |
| Instead of buying another quick disconnect head John made mine out of cherry to mount to the Panel Board Holder. Actually he made me three of them! Great set up there Judy! Btw if you get the chance check out the latest issue of Artist's Magazine it has a very nice article on pochade boxes and Plein Air painting gear. Kimberly | |
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