Lightweight Sketch & Water Colour easel !

                

                                        Easel box for sketching or water colour, on a table or on you lap!
A large flat lid "cigar-box", cover it with strong paper, spray craft varnish, inside and out, add ribbons or clip at front to tie. (I used a lightweight "calligraphy box" I got free with a magazine a few years ago.)

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 Inside!  Stocked with pens pencil, eraser, small plastic palette(Airline tray), tubes of watercolour, 2 W.C. brushes, large and small, water pot (fold down lantern type)  
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Add a Hinge for sketching use:  Punch a hole in side of box(A) and another in the lid(B). Attach wire from box to lid, allow for the lid to open back flat. Twist the wires closed. Then punch another hole in side of box(C)  push a small plastic rawl plug through it and  to hold down the wire.

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Sketching with box on knees 
                    
  

Sketching with box on the table  and with box lid closed!

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Water colour Painting/Sketching! Release wire hinge from 
rawlplug, and open back the lid.

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                        Added support at back of box, (not really necessary!) >