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I sell them locally at this time. Since my business is very small, the cost of shipping an easel would be more expensive than the easel itself. I can't ship them for the cost the bigger retailer does.

This easel when completed offers features not found on the cheaper commercial easels. The addition of canvas holding grooves, thicker wood, and high grade hardware are some of those features. I had a cheaper easel that 15 years ago cost me $50. It fell apart - the glue weakened on it - within a couple months of casual use. This easel is made to last and be sturdy.

No. I don't make that claim. I don't like what I see as cookie cutter paintings. I think people want to paint something important to them, not important to the "teacher". I think anyone can learn to paint better. I think as children we all already know how to paint - when young we all painted with broad strokes, big suns, big trees, etc. The thing is to kind of corral those urges that so many of us have set by the wayside. Learning how to use the tools out there, that certain paints, brushes, and all can help improve abilities and being given ideas of where and how to start goes a long way in "teaching" one to paint. The dirty little secret of any creative aspiration is that it is as much about trial and error as anything else - this is especially true with painting.

The most important ways that paintings/works of art are judged are subjective. Decide then what subjects are most important to you. Do you paint for yourself - the artist is often the biggest critic of his/her own work - or are you painting to please others? Are you painting to sell or exhibit your works? This is the least understood and worst type of audience to aim for. It all exists on a whim, on a word, and on a prayer and many self-described art experts and critics out there are quite truthfully little more than any other casual patron. What they like, what I like, what you or yours like may be worlds apart, but if someone somewhere likes what you have done, it is art. That's my bottom line.