Pochade box

Use basic woodworking skills and these detailed instructions to make a DIY pochade box for plein air painting on the go.

Wanting to get out of my studio and enter the world of Plein Aire painting, yet not wanting to lug around my old French Easel I decided to try to build something on my own. If you want to build one you will need to get a large cigar box and the hardware listed at the end of this post. Because the cigar box cover will be supporting your painting panel, you will need to be able to lock the cover into position at the desired angle. You can make a support with two small pieces of metal called…

Recently I've had an interest to create a small pochade box from a cigar box. I have a simple one that a friend had given me a while back, but I wanted to modify one that would be a more versatile and would be able to accommodate my interests for both oil painting and watercolor painting. I don't consider myself "handy" but I learned a lot as I went along. Here are some pictures of what I came up with. I looked at a number of sites and blogs that featured cigar boxes and had information on…

New Wave produces a wide selection of artist paint palettes for the art studio and plein air pochade boxes for landscape painting. Multiple substrates & styles for oil paint, acrylic paint, and watercolor.

9" x 12" Oil on Panel There's snow in the mountains and freshly plowed fields in the valley. Spring is here! The painting shown above is the first one to come out of a new pochade box - the latest box in a string of pochade boxes which started with this: 6" x 8" Julian Thumb Box Bought online as a clearance item, this is the first pochade box I owned. It's advantages are that it's light and very portable. Disadvantages are: it only holds one panel, the lid doesn't open past 90° , it doesn't…

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Today I’m going to show you how can make your own pochade box out of a cigar box just like the old impressionist masters. Best of all, the total cost of making this little pochade box should be about $12.00.

I am eager to share about my new paint box as it has been a very happy discovery for me this past month—it has freed me from needing to carry around a heavy French easel. Perhaps many of you reading have already experienced the wonders of a much lighter and smaller way to travel and … How to travel as light as possible for plein air painting Read More »

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Item specificsConditionNew: A brand-new, unused, unopened and undamaged item. See the seller's listing for full details. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tabBrandJullianMPN83517-1001