Soltek French Easel - Plein Air Easel

The Ferrari of the easel world! Bestseller!

HOW TO LOSE 5 POUNDS:
Soltek easel weighs 9 pounds compared to 13-18 pounds for most French box easels!

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QUICK SETUP - 20 seconds!

COMPACT
Folds to 2.5" x 12.5" x 20" (about a third the size of a French box easel!)

Portable
The Soltek Easel's light weight and compact design make it the best travel easel on the market today. Combine its portability with its vast capabilities and simple setup process and it is a plein air or indoor painter's dream.

LIGHTWEIGHT
The Soltek Easel weighs in at only 9 pounds, about half the weight of most traditional French Box easels.

QUICK and EASY
Autolock legs simplify the setup and take down process. You'll go from zero to painting in 20 seconds.

INTELLIGENT
Designed by a working artist, the Soltek Easel is the biggest thing to hit plein air painting since the landscape! Its intelligent design will add freedom and simplicity to your plein air or indoor artwork. Capable of holding your brushes, towels, 26 tubes of paint, and a 30" high painting, it carries everything you need but talent. Weighing only nine pounds and small enough to fit into a backpack, it redefines the concept of portability in an easel.

After eight years in development, Jim Wilcox compromised nothing in the design of this easel! A professional plein air painter of 30 years himself, he has successfully anticipated the artist's every need.

The Soltek Easel can be adjusted to lay flat for watercolors. The Easel's arm, with adjustable top and bottom canvas holders, adjusts to any angle, including 180 degrees flat (horizontal) for watercolor painting.
The height of the Soltek Easel can be adjusted so that it can be used while sitting.

SIMPLE
No more fidgeting with wing nuts! The autolock legs telescope in and out with a touch, and lock automatically when you let go.

VERSATILE
Converts easily to a laptop or table top easel.

SPACE-AGE
Constructed of aluminum alloy and polymers. This Space-age material is not only lightweight and durable, but easy-to-clean!

STABLE
Wide leg stance adapts to any terrain, remains stable even in wind

ADJUSTABLE
Painting arm and palette tray adjust to any angle you desire

COMPACT
Folds to 2.5" x 12.5" x 20" (about a third the size of a French box easel) and fits easily into a backpack available as an accessory.

CAPABLE
The Soltek Easel expertly utilizes every square inch of its small frame. It carries everything you need but talent. These vast capabilities make it seem less like an easel and more like a self-contained portable studio.

STORAGE
Easily carries twenty-six tubes of paint, in addition to brushes, towels, tools, and its own palette.

EXPANDABLE PAINTING ARM
Securely holds a painting up to 30" high.

CONVENIENT
Wings open to become trays which hold brushes and tools within easy reach, next to the polypro palette.

While many other easel companies are busy trying to make their product as inexpensive as possible, SolTek has strived for no less than perfection, and have cut no corners in order to decrease cost. SolTek's goal when they began this project was to make the best portable easel on the market, rather than the least expensive. After all, you get what you pay for.

With this in mind, we introduce to you the SolTek Easel. Designed by an artist who has been painting professionally for more than thirty years, no detail was overlooked, from its high quality engineering and manufacturing to its sturdy, utterly simple-to-use design. Everything you ever needed or wanted in a portable easel can be found right here.

The Soltek easel comes with a carrying strap, a polypropylene palette, an instructional video and a clip to carry wet paintings on the easel.

For your peace of mind, the easel comes with a 30 day manufacturer's money back guarantee, as well as a one-year repair or replacement warranty. It's time to use a tool that's as refined as the work you create.

SOLTEK PRO MODEL

8 inch taller legs. Where the Regular SolTek painting table comes up to 36”, the professional unit allows you to place the table up to 44” off the ground. The SolTek Pro is recommended for artists who are over 5 feet 8” tall.

AVAILIBLE ACCESSORIES
The Artist's Book of Excuses
Here's the perfect humorous look at the excuses we come up with in the world of art. You'll see yourself and friends in many of the 52 (one a week) illustrations in this book that will keep you laughing. Written by Narda and Jim Wilcox, illustrated by John Potter. Not exactly a typical coffee table art book, but unlike any art book you've seen. Makes a great gift for your artist friends or family.

Authors’ Excuse:
For years we have jokingly talked of doing a book about the many excuses artists come up with to explain the shortcomings in their work. We’ve heard them all, both through the workshops we sponsor and our gallery. Artists truly are a creative bunch, and not just in creating paintings. These excuses,
illustrated so cleverly by our good friend, John Potter, may come in handy for you the next time you’re searching for just the right explanation for a
not-exactly-perfect painting. We hope you enjoy seeing yourself and friends in many of these excuses. if not, enjoy the fun intended. The excuses (One a week for a year) are accompanied by a short explanation by Jim from The instructor’s point of view on how to avoid or best survive each situation. Between Laughs, tidbits of wisdom should help artists remember key elements of how to enjoy the wonderful but often frustrating foray into the world of art.



At this time there is no specifically designed Soltek easel-umbrella in the works. However, we have heard of a couple of different kinds of umbrellas that work well with the Soltek easel. There is one that is called the Bogen articulating arm professional stand, and another called the chairbrella, available at Walmart. Hopefully this information will help you out.

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