Build Your Own Painting Station

[Mr. Peabody]

That's a shame...

[Atheling]

That's a shame...

I know, I'm very curious as to how the paint station looks  .

Darrell.

[Mr. Peabody]

It's really quite basic, one of those great bits of common sense improvisation.

Just an acrylic box-frame, about 16"x20" turned upside down. That's plenty big to work in and still small enough to carry about the house and hopefully find a home on an out of the way shelf when not in use.

A few bits are added to organise your brushes and paints plus a pot of water to rinse your brushes. These need to be weighted or sufficiently stable to resist tipping over. The original plan used a plastic 'floppy-disk organiser' with lots of holes drilled in the top and a load of weighty stuff (sand?) in the bottom to hold brushes... Good luck finding one now. Just scour the Dollar/Pound shops for suitable cheap containers. The alternative is to use the useful laser-cut mdf stuff that is designed to hold paints and such. But then the project risks not being a money saver.

The last touch is a bit of padding for your wrists as the box-frame needs all its sides to remain sturdy, so you are going to be resting your hands/wrists on the edge of the frame. I used a neoprene mouse-pad.

[Atheling]

It's really quite basic, one of those great bits of common sense improvisation.

Just an acrylic box-frame, about 16"x20" turned upside down. That's plenty big to work in and still small enough to carry about the house and hopefully find a home on an out of the way shelf when not in use.

A few bits are added to organise your brushes and paints plus a pot of water to rinse your brushes. These need to be weighted or sufficiently stable to resist tipping over. The original plan used a plastic 'floppy-disk organiser' with lots of holes drilled in the top and a load of weighty stuff (sand?) in the bottom to hold brushes... Good luck finding one now. Just scour the Dollar/Pound shops for suitable cheap containers. The alternative is to use the useful laser-cut mdf stuff that is designed to hold paints and such. But then the project risks not being a money saver.

The last touch is a bit of padding for your wrists as the box-frame needs all its sides to remain sturdy, so you are going to be resting your hands/wrists on the edge of the frame. I used a neoprene mouse-pad.

Thanks for the tip. I think I'd need about ten or fifteen of them though! I'm currently in the process of sorting out and tidying/dusting my studio- I'll post up a pic you'll see what I mean  

Darrell.

[verd]

I have the same malware problem with the old links.

But I find this article in the DakkaDakka forum that seems to be the work station that you were talking about:

http://www.dakkadakka.com/wiki/en/Build-Your-Own_Painting_Station

Hope this works.

[Mr. Peabody]

Yay Verd! Keeping the flame alive!

That's the piece, copied from Hyun's Wee Toy Soldiers. Wow, that was a great site, loaded with clever ideas and good advice.

Thank you very much for digging up a working link.

[snitcythedog]

I keep getting a notice saying that the website ahead contains Malware!
I'm using Avast....
Just thought I ought to point it out guys  .
Darrell.

I am too using mozilla with norton. 
Snitchy sends.

[Mr. Peabody]

Go to the DakkaDakka post....  It's the same article. 

Nothing we can do about Screaming Alpha's untended website...