Homemade Diy Pochade Box

Make the palette by laying several strips of masking tape onto a cigarette box.

Homemade diy pochade box. It is light and compact. I started from plans of jim serrett at pochade box paintings. Mounted onto the bottom of a cigar box or plywood panel makes for a nifty pochade box or watercolor paper holder. Just make sure it is mounted flush to the tripod maximizing the contact area and hence the stability.

Some epoxy glue helps. Best of all the total cost of making this little pochade box should be under 20. Alternatively you can make a homemade pochade box using a slightly larger very. At this point with everything dry i sanded and stained the box and hit it with a coat of fast dry polyurethane.

Alternative palette plus panel area. Homemade pochade box to say that i love d my jullian plein air easel would be an understatement. A hinged lid that functioned as an easel and wet carrier. Center base plate on the bottom box about an inch from the lip glue and tack from the inside palette side with wire brads.

I really loved everything about it especially the fact that is was made of real wood had cool hardware folded and i could throw it on my back using the leather straps i added when i bought the easel back in 1999. My recent project is a homemade pochade box for plein air painting. Jim sterrett this influential 2009 post on how to build a sterrett box as it came to be called was the second diy pochade box i remember seeing on the web after ellie clemon s cigar box pochade box post in 2004 see my previous article on diy cigar box pochade boxes sterrett also published a post on diy pochade boxes by others inspired by his design and another on his plans for. A palette and the lower portion of the box that stored paints brushes and other mediums.

When painting small pochade boxes fit the bill for me very well. Place some weight on top of this and let set for a day you need a strong bond here. His plans were easy to follow. 3 small cheap homemade pochade box designs homemade pochade box.

Make your own pochade box quick easy cheap and not requiring tools. Traditional pochade boxes had three simple elements. Try one of these before investing in an expensive plein air pochade system. The palette is built in into the box like the open box m.

These are fun to make out of cigar boxes and just.