EDC watercolour art kit, with the travel easel from Stablo.
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- čas přidán 22. 10. 2021
- An unboxing and first impressions video of my new travel easel from Stablo. I show you how I plan to set it up.
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Made something similar with a cardboard box from amazon. Lightweight for hiking, foldable so it fits in my pack ! Thanks for the review!
Wow pls make a video of your DIay from
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Thank you for commenting ☺️
I just discovered your video, almost one year after you published it, I'm sorry! 😊 Thanks a lot for this beautiful unboxing and presentation, I'l really happy that you enjoy your easel!
Guillaume
I am happy that you understood that I actually DO like it! A lot of people seem to think the opposite due to my clumsy first impression video. I will make another video pointing this out, because this product is really nice and deserves to be recognized.
Hello@@Chrisvold, don't worry! I just red some comments and indeed they aren't good, I'll certainly answer to some of them in order to know the reasons. Have a nice day! 🙂 Guillaume
@@Chrisvold By the way, if there are some thing you'd like me to improve, or some things you'd like to use with the easel but don't know how, I have a lot of tips (and currently making a section with tips on the website), like using it with thick cover sketchbooks, paper sheets with a board, use it with a tripod...
Have a nice evening!
Guillaume
Wow, I need get one of these. I didn't know it existed. Thank you for sharing 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽😀
You’re welcome! It is really great 🤩
Thank you!
Guillaume (the maker 🙂).
I love the StablO . I placed a leftover adhesive backed metal plate from my magnetic phone mount kit onto the bottom of my plastic Cotman 14 set travel palette and my Lukas travel palette 12 set so they would attach to the magnetic area of the StablO. I also ordered the extra cup and cup holder. I actually just use a traditional two cup artist cup with lids and clip it onto the StablO and use one cup holder with cup to hold my brushes/ pen/pencils, eraser, mister, etc. The traditional two cup artist cup are smaller and leakproof making them more convenient if I can’t empty the water where I am painting. I also wear a white athletic wristband on my left wrist to wipe my brushes on while painting en plein air. Maybe you could clip your wooden palette to the brush holder.Happy to see a new review for the StablO. Not many as of yet.
@wanderingstar I would love to see a photos of your modified setup!
@@g_knee - I posted pictures in Lindsay the Frugal Crafter Facebook group. I also posted pics of my minimalist setup that only uses the WN Cotman 14 set, Artist water cups, sketchbook and wristband. Can be held in one hand and paint with your free hand.
@@wanderingstar5673 I cannot find this group :(
Thank you for such a great comment with a lot of good tips and tricks! 💐
thank you for making this video! the stablo easel seems like too much extra work for me but if you make it work for you that is great!
Thank you ❤️
It’s nice to have a flat ruler in the pocket or scrap watercolor paper for trying colors
Yes, it can be 👍
I think the sketch book pockets are for loose pages
Thanks. ☺️
Takk! 🙏🙂 Er ganske nybegynner på akvarell selv og syntes det var spennende å se en "norsk" kanal. 🙂 Takk for at du deler. Håper det blir flere videoer. Hilsen fra Lommedalen . 😁🌱 Nina
Takk Nina ☺️ Bare jeg kommer over noia’en over å snakke på kamera så kanskje 😂
Det kommer. 😉 Tok litt tid med meg og, men nan blir vant med det. Masse lykke til! 💜
Thank you for showing that easel art box. I wouldn't buy it or use it if it was free it seems to be rather thin and skimpy and you would be spending your whole time trying to get it situated so that you can work with it. Appreciate your videos
Thank you. It is very sturdy, and compact. I like it for traveling when you need to pack light, or stand to paint. ☺️
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker 🙂. The easel is very sturdy while being thin and light! It's made to adapt to a lot of situation, not only for sketchbooks, but I understand it cannot suits all the needs, every artists has its own gear and habits!
Wow that is really cool! It would be great if you let us know how it works out for you. Have fun that's most important! Merry Christmas to you! Hope to see more from you soon! 😊🤶👍👋
Thank you ❤️ I am not very comfortable speaking English, and it is holding me back from posting more videos.. but I am working on it 😅🤡 I appreciate your kind words ❤️
Thank you!! 🙂 Guillaume
I guess the maker won't be featuring this video on his site. Of course, it would help if the person had actually read the instructions before making the video.
It was not meant to be a negative video. I really like the Stablo! It’s not supposed to be a commercial for the company - it’s a first impression/unboxing, from my point of view.
Hello! I'm the maker, could you please tell me what you'd like to know or what would need to be on the instructions? I recently made an update on it. Thank you! Guillaume
This was a great real review. Send info to the maker this will help him to refine his product. :)
Thank you. First impressions are always a bit clumsy - when you get to know a product it will get easier. I am very happy with my stablo. Maybe I should make a new video, now that I have used it for a while!? 🤣
Hello! I'm the maker 🙂, could you please tell me what you think could be improved?
Thanks a lot!
Guillaume
Could you tell me your thoughts on the bump under your paper that would be where the top board ends? Is it hard to paint in that area?
I usually don’t paint on the left side, so I wouldn’t know. But if it is a problem I would just put a pencil board between the paper and the Stablo. It would only be an issue with the first pages of an album anyways ☺️
seems everybody has the same idea.....extra water cup holder & 2 cups...great little gadget...I use real brushes so no problem with the holder
Thats good to know. You can always drill the holes bigger too, to make them fit ☺️
I would not put an open pot of water so near to my work! The chance of me flinging water everywhere is too high. I am making my own using the sturdy card from a watercolour pad. I had clips, found a couple of magnets, use my own box of paints like yours, use the small pots from my oil painting days, et voilà, cost me £5 maximum. Thanks for doing such a good review. Jo in France 🇫🇷
Thank you, that’s a good idea ☺️ I mostly use water brushes on the go, so I don’t need the containers anyways. ☺️
Just take a drill or find a friend who has one and an assortment of bits and make some of the smaller holes larger.
Yes! That is a great idea! 💐
Strange how all pochade box reviews seem to have one thing in common. Very rarely is the cost mentioned,just checked it out and in the UK this set up would have cost you the thick end of £100.
Yes, sorry about that.
I dont like the brush holder either. If i got this i would buy 3 water cups and use one for brushes the way you demonstrated.
Seems like the best way to do it, right!? It is really hard to find other cups that fit, so I need to order another one from stablo😊 thank you for commenting ❤️
maybe you can use a standing round top zip pencil holder into the bungee?
Wow! Thanks for the review. Now I know what's Not to buy! Concept ok but design has short comings.
Works better if one of the cups is used for brushes. I use a standard dual cup stainless steel clip on cups for my water. They have leakproof lids which enables the water to be emptied later. The elastic on the sides is good to slip a cloth through to wipe brushes on. It is a system designed to hold and paint. If one was going to sit it on a table the StablO would not be needed. The art supplies could just be placed on the table.
Sure ☺️ You need to find your own way of using this, to make it work.
Thankyou for sharing. Im so glad l saw this before l bought it. Sketch books dont fit, dont need water pots with water brushes and water brushes too big for brush holder. So all in all, not fit for purpose. Good to know! 😂
To their defense, sketchbooks do fit. If you do it correctly 😅 the covers are the only part of the book that is supposed to go into the slot, not the entire book. My first attempts were clumsy.
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker 🙂. For you, what could be improved? The great majority of sketchbooks covers fit (not all have some enveloppes on the back of it, and even with those you can put the cover under the easel instead of inside, it works as well), and I created a new accessory for paint brushed.
Thank you!
Guillaume
One would think Stabilo would have made their product to fit multiple journals and sketchbooks. Seems like it’s use is too limited.
Well, I don’t think a lot of people use leather notebooks with this. 😅 it is fine with hard cover books 👍
Hello, I'm Guillaume (the maker 🙂)! The easel is made to fit almost every sketchbooks, even if there are a lot of sketchbook brands with different specifications (thickness, enveloppe on the back...). About cover thickness, a tip is to put the cover under the easel, not inside it, and it will work perfectly too!
Je vous remercie for the demonstration but the Stablo just doesn't cut it for me. I think there are way better setups.
There sure are a lot of options out there 👍
Put the brushes in the empty water cup
Yup. Or drill the holes bigger! 🤩
Neat! I hipe it wast useful to you!
It is ☺️
Comment peut on commander ???
You have to order from Stablos website. stablo.fr/en/home
Thank you for the demo. I now know not to buy a Stablo. 😂
You’re welcome. 🙈
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker. Could you please tell me more? Thank you!
I really wish you had *actually looked at the instructions before or watched a video on how it's supposed to be used correctly!*
I don't think I've ever commented negatively on a art supply vid, bc I really value content creators in this niche. So this is a first.
But what you uploaded is actively hurting a small supply creator: just look at all the negative comments in responses to your handling! You responding to some of them with more positive experiences you had later or how you did it wrong on the vid is nice, but at that point the damage is long done.
It'd be one thing if the product itself was just ill-designed or low quality. But this isn't on the Stablo - it's mostly on you.
I have no idea why you feel like this video is a negative one. Is it because I didn’t figure out everything the first time I used it? Is it because I made a video of my own first impression and experience, and didn’t make a commercial for the product (I am not sponsored or hired by the company to do so)? Is it because I tried out things that it isn’t made for, to see if it worked? Please let me know what the instructions say that I didn’t seem to understand. What did I do wrong and how am I supposed to use it “correctly”?
@@Chrisvold Have you not read the comments here? There are literally dozens of people going "horrible product, thanks for showing" or "I definitely won't be buying that!" - many of which *you* yourself then answered and often countered!
Are you really trying to pull "sorry, did you want a COMMERCIAL?" on an independent review video?! 🤦🏼 Obviously I did not.
Again, I'm normally a big fan of those kind of reviews. Even if the user experience might be very different from mine or comes to other conclusions.
Yours is the only one I've encountered that is made without the CZcamsr actually trying to handle the art supply correctly, leaving many viewers with the impression your bumbling set-up and narration is you using the Stablo as intended and running into problems from start to finish. And you mentioned the instructions you didn't look at yourself, halfway through. There's also video on how to set up and use it.
Your review is the equivalent of someone ordering alcohol markers and then whining that they bleed through when being used on ordinary copy paper instead of marker paper: someone not informing themselves about what they're buying - and then blaming the product for using it incorrectly.
Obviously my objection is because you didn't even try to find out how to set it up before reviewing. I wrote that in bold as my very 1st sentence in the comment. So, yeah: I clearly meant that.
@@Alex-vq9vj please tell me how I am using it wrong and how to do it “correctly”.
What exactly do I say to make you feel like I don’t like the product?
Please let me know what the manual say, that I don’t do correctly.
Do you really think I would spend that much money on a product without researching everything about it beforehand? Do you really believe I don’t like it after spending hours making a video about it!? Yes, it needs some tweaking to work for me, but what is the crime in showing that, and sharing my thoughts on how to work around it? In what way isn’t that helpful for other buyers? It’s not all rainbows and unicorns you know.. 🤷🏻♀️
This easel looks so cheaply made....I feel like one good drop and the entire thing would snap in half.....
I don’t think it will, it is solid, sturdy wood. I don’t even think I can snap it in half myself.
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker 🙂. It's very sturdy, really! Don't trust its thin and light design ^^
Oh dear, did you discover that you were putting the stable on incorrectly? You don’t shove the sketch book under the first layer of wood.the whole piece, the longest wood backer goes ion either side of the paper block. Oh dear. I hope you figured that out.
Yes, was difficult to watch.
I am not sure how that is supposed to work.. I did it the way the instructions told me to. ☺️ As you can see from the stablos own instruction video as well.
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This video shows it as well. I am doing it correctly.
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Hello! Is there something badly explained in the video? Thank you!
Guillaume (the maker 🙂)
I don't like it because it is too limiting - whoever designed it didn't think beyond one type of sketchbook and that's just sad. It could have been more "forgiving" so that any sketchbook you use would fit okay. 🤢
I like to make a thin board that fits the groove, and then tape a single sheet of watercolor paper to it, as I don’t really like to use sketchbooks. ☺️
Hello! I'm Guillaume, the maker 🙂.
The easel is made to fit the vast majority of the sketchbooks, even those with extra thick covers (by putting the cover under instead of inside the easel, it works the same way). Though, a solution to every sketchbook brands is nearly impossible to make. Also, you can use the easel with paper sheets by using it with a board that you slide in it instead of the sketchbook cover!
Have a nice day,
Guillaume
I think there are too many challenges with this. Most would be obvious if they tried using it themselves.
It’s great for on the go, you just have to get to know it and find out what works for you ☺️
Hello, I'm the maker, could you please tell me more about your thoughts?
Thank you!
Guillaume
@@stablo9483 It's been a while since I wrote that! I scanned the video again quickly and had a few things I might have had in mind:
• Doesn't work with sketch books that have pockets.
• Doesn't work with sketchbooks with thicker covers or with slip-on cases.
• Limited options in brush holder if your brushes are the same diameter. It is likely only 1 or 2 of 9 holes will work.
• Can only work with small palettes if using water cups. A common elongated version of the palette in this video could not open without its lid/mixing area hitting the cups. The palette in this video could not be turned 90 degrees - which might help you visualize the issue.
• Brush holder can only accommodate tapered brushes. It can't hold drawing implements, and there is no good place to lay them in the limited palette area.
• The cups/brush holder locations in the back block using that area for clipping palettes, reference materials, etc.
• Cups are not held in place and may get knocked/tipped if hit from the underside or not set down very carefully.
Best wishes.
Thanks a lot @@DavZell for taking time to answer, this long after your original post, and for such an extensive answer.
I totally understand your thoughts, and I have some answers, I'm also currently creating a dedicated section on StablO's website where I'm adding tips and tricks about some ways to use specific gear with the easel.
- About the sketchbook cover thickness, the easel was originally designed to hold sketchbook cover "inside" the easel, in the dedicated slot between the two main parts of the easel, fitting most classic sketchbooks.
But there are a lot of different sketchbook brands with a lot of references/covers materials/thickness...
But there's a way to use them too, you just need to put the cover under the easel and not inside, this way cover's thickness do not matter.
I'm aware this isn't something that comes in mind the first time you see or use the easel (hence the tips and tricks section, and the post about thick cover sketchbook at stablo.fr/en/sketchbooks-with-very-thick-covers).
- About the brush holder, the idea of the multiple sized holes is that brushes of all sizes will fit, but indeed every artist has different tastes and habits with brushes, some use thin brushes only, others thick only... So holes of various sizes was a necessity. I also was totally aware that there were a problem with brushes that have straight handle (instead of conical handle like the vast majority of brushes). The two holes on the easel (top left and right) are there to help with this situation.
So, I recently (in September) released a new accessory, which is a new kind of brush holder. Holes are all the same size, and an elastic band travels through it, making thin and thick handle brushes fit with all the holes, even travel brush that have straight shape!
This new brush/thing holder is also magnetic so that it cas act like an extension for the watercolor palette, or a place where you can put a jam jar lid for exemple and act like a mixing area (or anything one can think of).
- About palette size, I can tell that pretty big 24 half pans (or 12 full pans) palettes are very well maintained even if half of it are "flying" outside of the easel, as magnets are very strong (there are some pictures on StablO's Instagram page, I cannot post pictures here unfortunately).
The original idea of the easel being to stay thin, compact and light, increasing the size of the easel in order to accommodate big "travel" palettes would have been a compromise to do, and magnets are strong enough to still be able to maintain bigger palettes.
- About the water cup that can be knocked, again I understand, there are some water cups references that are semi-closed so that the water won't go away of something like this happen.
All this is not to prove that this easel is the perfect solution for everyone, because it's not.
Clearly, I make it for artists that are using a certain type of "gear", that are already travelling "light and small", and that may need a tool that gather everything they're using, with a stable, light and discreet tool.
Since I started making it almost 5 years ago, I'm very often amazed by how many artists use their easel in very different ways that I imagined it, because it's a "basis" they can use and adapt to their own way to draw/paint (which I'm pretty proud of).
They make it "their" easel, their tool, and it gives me a lot of ideas!
Thanks again for your answer, have a nice evening!
Guillaume
@@stablo9483 I hope the changes and hints work well! If there are enough hints or other usage ideas, you may want to create a simple insert that ships with the product. Not everyone will figure things out or seek out the hints page. This would make for a better OOB (out of box) experience for the buyer. Best wishes!
Seems like far too many compromises on which supplies to take with you to accommodate this set up to make it only somewhat work for you. I feel like we should find what works for us in supplies and THEN figure out a set up to accommodate all of that around it, not the other way around. Seems like this is more for those who are more minimalist than what you even have here for supplies to make it work. I find it super annoying to have predrilled holes for brushes but they never seem to fit what you’re given and this is a perfect example of that. There must be a better way around all of that like possibly more of an adjustable brush holder. You shouldn’t have to compromise the extra water cup you purchased for clean water as a brush holder when it came with a brush holder because it just didn’t work for you. I can see how some of this would be helpful, but it seems like more of a pain than anything. I personally already have a hard time breaking in my sketchbooks for fear of ‘messing them up’, I definitely wouldn’t be able to rip out a back pocket especially if I purchased it for having that option to use, but Ben if it wasn’t used for that reason. That might just be my OCD thing, but I know a lot of artists have a hard time breaking in their books as well, so that’s not just me. I kinda laughter a little bit when you ripped out the pocket and then tried a different book to go in there because it still didn’t work the way you wanted it to which is kinda why I hate doing things like that to just see if it works when sometimes it doesn’t and then you just ruined a good book figuring that out.
😂 it is a REAL life review, for sure! I totally agree with you on the brush holder. I will drill the holes bigger to fit my brushes, so that I can still use it. 👍 we have to find our own way to use equipment like this. It is really versatile, and I really like that. 👍
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker! I agree, the easel must fit the gear you already use and your habits, it's not made to do everything for everyone, even if you can do a lot, not just using sketchbooks with it 🙂
It cannot suit every artist needs.
About the minimalist aspect, indeed, the easel was originally thought for artists going out with few brushes, a sketchbook and a watercolor palette!
I also made an new accessory last September, where holes for the brush holder are all the same size and there is an elastic band inside to keep thin or thick brushes (head up or down), and it's magnetic so you also can use it like an extension for a watercolor palette or a mixing area using a jam jar lid.
Have a nice day!
Guillaume
Neiii...tror ikke dette var noe særlig.
Passer ikke for alle nei ☺️
I don't think it's worth buying, it looks flimsy. 😕
It’s very sturdy and a great solution for painting on the go!
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker 🙂. The easel is actually very sturdy, while being light and thin!
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This cheaply made and not worth the money.
It feels very sturdy ☺️
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker. What did feel cheap to you? Thank you!
I don't like this easel
I am sorry to hear that ☺️
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker. Did you try it? Could you please tell me more? Thank you!
Ridiculous, not worth the hassle.
Sorry you feel like that 😊
Hello, I'm Guillaume, the maker 🙂. Could you please tell me more about why you think it's "ridiculous"? Thank you!