Solabela® Floor Easel with Carrying Case

I debated returning this easel... This easel is incredibly lightweight (only 1 lb and 6 oz!) and fairly sturdy enough to use for most artists as long as you're not especially heavy-handed. The easel wobbles a bit when you put pressure on the support/canvas surface but a bit of give is acceptable given how light and portable the easel is. The problem is with its maximum height. The highest possible height the lower support rail (18" wide) raises up to is 39", making this easel mostly a sit-down easel, not an easel for painting while you're standing up. Ths is especially true if you paint on smaller panels out in the field, but you can plausibly use a larger panel/gatorboard around 19-20" high to raise up and tape/clip your painting surface near the top to draw/paint while standing. A very useful feature on this easel that made me consider keeping is how the support bar could be secured with the metal bracket on the vertical pole along with the use of the supplied velcro strip as you can see on my uploaded photo. I have other portable but heftier aluminum easels without this securing feature and the support rail frequently get dislodged and dropped, or the back leg can annoyingly slide out. Although the max pole height to the top of the canvas is 61", I wouldn't raise it past 59" to secure the vertical pole on the support rail bracket. I ultimately decided to keep the easel to paint while sitting because it is so portable and folds down to only 20 1/2". I would recommend this for people looking for a very lightweight portable sit-down easel, but you need a taller easel for painting while standing.

It's a nice easel that adjusts to different heights. It was too small for the sign in board I wAnted to display and the return shipping is too expensive to send back so I have to keep it. Hopefully I will make use of it for something else.

It's not bad. It serves its purpose. I wish it was a bit sturdier, and also that you could mount the canvas slightly tilted back instead of straight up and down. However, I do like the fact that it adjusts down so it can be used as a tabletop easel.

Extremely poorly made. Very flimsy and can not hold whiteboards. Really would not work for anyone, let alone business related. Falls down due to weight of most things, needed for presentation style materials. Do not buy! Really - I give zero stars.

Awesome product for the price! Very compact to store and easy to set up. I used it on top of a table to display a large framed poster. It worked GREAT!

The easel was very weak and came with the equivalent of IKEA instructions. It could not hold up the large notepad I had bought to play pictionary. It had to go back.

Very nice and sturdier than I expected.

Lots of small pieces that aren't attached very well and get lost easily. Not super easy to set up. Would be good for a painter. Not great for a funeral home.

works great a little flimsy but ok for the price

I LIKE IT BUT IT COULD USE SOME INSTRUCTIONS.