FOCUS GROUP: Easels

[Anonymous]

My initial thoughts:

I’ve loaded up a quite a few easel products into the product review system. So far, the categories are:

– Easel Accessories
– Art Workstations (the big, all-in-one workstations)
– Children’s Easels
– Display/Presentation Easels
– Giant Easels (oversized)
– Pochade Boxes
– Portable and Field Easels (french!)
– Sketchbox Easels
– Studio Easels (A-Frames, H-Frames, Single Masts, etc.)
– Table Top and Table-Mount Easels

We need to focus on the rating types for the various easel-related categories.

My initial thought was to just have an “overall rating” question for easels. But then I thought, we could probably get a bit more specific than this:

The Current List:

Here is the current list (which I will try to keep as up-to-date as possible):

[*] Quality of Construction: 1=poorly made, 5 = Excellent Quality
[*] Durability: 1=poor, 5 = Very Durable!
[*] Value for the Money (1=a waste, 5 = worth every penny!)

Thoughts?

Cheers.
Scott

[nicoletta]

scott, since i am not the best for words and usually cant explain what i mean, what about flexability, ease of handling ( like moving it up and down) and also the ht of biggest canvas one can use
since i am short, to me it is important to have a painting level thats easy for me to use(dont laught, sometimes i have to use two chairs to get to the height (set by mfg) that others would call tooooo low)

nicoletta

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the feedback!

After thinking this through some more, it occured to me that some subcategories of easels will be different. For example:

Portable & Field Easels: Handling, Set-up, Durability, Value for the Money

Gigantic Easels: Handling, Assembly, Durability, Value for the Money

Pochade Boxes: Durability, Value for the Money

All other categories: Handling, Durability, Value for the Money

etc.

[Anonymous]

Also, I’ve added the initial easel entries to the live system. They are not yet available for reviews, but you can at least see the subcategories, and what is in them.

[nicoletta]

sounds good to me scott!!!!

will take a gander through and see.

nicoletta

[Maria Gusta]

Some of us use other sorts of work stations for 2-D media, such as drafting tables, or artists’ horses. These do not fit under easels OR furniture.

I do not mean secondary tables any of us might use to hold things or for matting etc, but those used as the primary furniture equipment for the original artistic work.

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