DJ Geribo

Since I divide my time between painting fine art and building my business, Eye Help Animals, LLC, with my husband, Jim, I've decided to focus more on the animals we are helping to save through Eye Help Animals. My current project is painting large scale animal paintings and since 2010 is the Year of the Tiger, and the Bengal Tiger eye was the first animal eye that I painted, a Bengal Tiger will be my first 30x40 painting. Of course, this project coincides with my recent purchase of a David Sorg studio easel.  I have not attempted to paint anything larger than an 18x36 on my sketchbox easel, and even that was awkward enough. But now I can paint on almost any sized canvas I can imagine.

The David Sorg easel is just beautiful and very easy to manipulate; if you have to raise your canvas to work on another section, just push up on the shelf where the canvas sits to work on the bottom of the canvas. The only drawback I’ve found is I can’t raise the easel as high as it can go because my ceiling is normal height. Therefore, I won’t be able to take full advantage of the capabilities of the easel- this isn’t a drawback with the easel but with my ceiling height.

I also enjoy painting other animal subjects and nature scenery so I will continue to paint these subjects, as well. But now I have a more worthy focus and personally, I’m much more productive when I give myself goals and projects to complete. Left to my own devices, I lose track of time flipping through magazines, searching on the internet (fortunately, I don’t spend much time doing this), reading books (reading, like eating potato chips, is my weakness), or engaging in my other passion, writing.

Here is a picture of my new easel with a 30x40 canvas, waiting for paint!