the original overby tabletop painting easel, portable compact easy carry, hold & display stretched canvas stable, 12" inches, natural wood hg concepts great table easel anywhere, works outdoors as well as indoors & excellent for display! not only can you use the overby pocket easel as a great table easel anywhere, it also is fantastic for display of "edge to edge" paintings and can be a great choice for travel, second or third easel, setting up to paint anywhere without it sliding. the rubber pads at the base really keep this easel in place and even firm brush strokes could be made as solidly as with other tabletop easels. overby, practical, simple and inexpensive! easy to set up and easy to carry from place to place key features: made of finished beech wood each 12" long with a notch cut out at an angle rubber pads on bottom hold easel sections firmly in place holds canvas up to 30" high and any reasonable width and at an ideal viewing and painting angle lightweight and compact handles the small and medium canvases take up virtually no space, very well made perfect for: great for second and third table easels in your studio excellent for displaying the edge canvases having an easel ready anywhere studios with limited space classrooms and workshops holds your canvas very sturdy while you're painting display paintings on a table at art shows when we first looked at this easel we almost thought it was a joke. in front of us where two pieces of wood 12" long with a notch cut out at an angle. it also said patent pending and we thought what can you possibly do with these. then we took a 24×24" the edge 3/4" stretched canvas and placed it in the right and left easel section. we were truly amazed. it actually supported the canvas very well. an unlikely design that now had important implications. holds your canvas very sturdy while you're painting. even when you push the paint hard into the canvas fibers. it adjusts to the many different sized canvas' and the rubber feet make it a solid grip placed anywhere. it's affordable and displays finished paintings very nicely!