Years ago, besides my engineering career, I was a professional artist. I was a watercolor artist. I've sold my paintings around the world. Anyways... after all these years my wife has become an artist. She used to say she'd never do it because she had no talent. But she started sketching and now watercolor painting. She's doing portraits, landscapes, barn scenes, florals, etc. And she's very good! She's been using my equipment and also buying her own.
Anyways..I noticed she's been laying her brushes on the desk on a paper towel so I made her this little "Artist Brush Stand".
I made it out of scrap teak. Then applied wood butter as a finish.
It flat packs in case she wants to carry it in her art box for painting on location.
It opens up nicely. It has a fold out support.
BTW... the main frame corners are all hand cut dovetails.
That's really nice, Rick. The ability to fold it flat is a great feature. I'm sure your wife really appreciates it.
I haven't run across many people who could work professionally as both an artist and an engineer. That's a broad skill set that, and one that is a great asset for this hobby.
Ron... good observation. Usually they don't mix. Emotional vs non emotional so to speak. My dad was a USAF lifer and a well known artist on the side when I was growing up and my mom was a NASA Engineering Administrator. She oversaw four scientists. I was solving math problems and painting from a young age.
Nice design features on this brush holder Rick, engineers can't help thinking through situations for the best result. And, the dovetails look great, nice and tight for both strength and appearance. Two thumbs up on this one Rick. 👍👍
Oldtool Nice design features on this brush holder Rick, engineers can't help thinking through situations for the best result. And, the dovetails look great, nice and tight for both strength and appearance. Two thumbs up on this one Rick. 👍👍
Thank you so much Oldtool! The scrap teak was real useful for this. It's natural oils will protect it well from any water, etc. Did the dovetails to keep in practice. They turned out nice for this. Cheers! Rick
Dark_Lightning Nice rack! Teak is insanely expensive around...well, anywhere.
Thanks Steven! Yeah... Teak is very expensive. But a while back a friend gave me about thirty 1" x 3" x 8' lengths of it. I didn't know what to do with it and it's not easy to work with cutting it. Lots of natural oil in it and saw dust is nasty. Anyways... it was perfect for this.
SplinterGroup Great design! The comments about engineering/art is really engineering being left brain and art being both right and left. At least that is the reasoning this week!
Thanks Bruce! Always heard of Engineering left... yes.. but never heard of Art being left and right... only right. Left being the reasoning analytical side and right being the emotional sensitive side. On well... I'm both for sure. I'm also bi-lingual and ambidextrous. Okay okay... that's enough.
Pottz one issue with teak is a high amount of silica which can dull blades must faster than other woods.
I remember us discussing that before. It's true! I've even had to touch up my blade teeth. Awful stuff that teak. It's not worth the expense to buy it. For free...hmmm... for small projects like this.. okay. Big stuff like furniture.. forget it.
