Drawing Bench Horse
Three rows of deep grooves near the horse s front are perfect for holding a drawing pad or board against the front support.
Drawing bench horse. Every art horse should have little pegs or grooves near the front portion of the bench. Paul getty museum in los angeles carl davis designed and fabricated a drawing bench as a christmas gift for his youngest brother and artist eric. How to build a shave horse.
Art horses and art benches are a classic art seating that allow art students to paint or draw like the old masters. Art benches create a simple work station and are often very portable. While the dumbhead shaving horse is seen in 15th and 16th century illustrations there is no pictorial or documentary evidence for the english style prior to the late 19th century.
Click to view our folding art horses. Inspired by a trip to the j. The unique design of the art horse provides the artist a place to seat with a built in easel for sketch pad or canvas.
When not in use the support back folds down turning the belgian art horse into a handsome bench that does double duty as furniture for your home or studio. Art horses and bench easels otherwise known as donkey benches they are a place for the artists to sit and prop up his framed stretched canvas on a back support. The names conjour up images of mediaeval master artists eskewing comfort to ply their trade with great concentration.
A drawing bench or horse is a wooden bench with one raised end or with two raised ends one higher than the other that is designed to allow an artist or young buckaroo to sit astride one end and prop a drawing board up against the other. Perfect home made vice for wood carving and draw knife work. These grooves hold your drawing board in place so it doesn t need to rest up against your lap.
Designed for student comfort the durable hann art horse is made entirely of solid hard maple with a natural finish. Carl s invention was more unique than just a bench he added the ability to fold the traditional style art horse or donkey into a flat ironing board like configuration. It is possible to draw on a regular bench.
The two traditional shaving horse styles are the continental schnitzelbank or dumbhead and the english bodgerÃs bench. But art horses are designed for artists and these grooves are a crucial feature. A bowyer s woodworking dream.
The traditional drawing horse has been around for centuries and we all know leonardo da vinci would have loved this old school bench with a new fold jon swihart artist santa monica ca. These art horses make ideal classroom chairs for sketch and drawing exercises.
