0 a wooden frame, usually with legs, that holds a picture, especially one that an artist is painting or drawing --
1 a frame, usually with three legs, that holds a picture, esp. one that an artist is painting or drawing --
Her works include easel paintings, drawings and theatre decoration, as well as fashion and interior design.
I recollect that my wife taught at a progressive school in that period, and she was told that one could not possibly have a blackboard and easel.
The comparison in painting is between the big public statement—the religious paintings in the churches or the statues in the square— and the easel painting for the home.
The offender is strapped to an apparatus, known as a triangle, which is like a great blackboard easel.
If one used a blackboard, one had to prop it up, because using an easel would make it too formal.
It is said you are going to enforce it in the easel of omnibuses and chars-a-bancs by a timetable.
I am, however, arrang- ing for the use of the easels to be discontinued.
It really needs a blackboard and easel to make it perfectly plain.
