Plein Air Workshop

23/12/2025

Made a hot new 8x12 pochade box recently with few improvements:

- new high quality snap buttons;
- new wet panel carrier design with uplifted bottom panel;
- almost flat bottom for tabletop use.

This is a mix of All-in-One design and a standard Martlet, without leather parts, but with bottom panel holder. The box can be opened at 170 degrees which gives the opportunity to paint with a vertical palette. Almost the same angle of sight to the painting and to the palette can help in matching colors.

05/12/2025

Built a custom pochade box recently, for 5x7 inch panels with 4-slot wet panel carrier and a removable magnet-mounted palette. Looks like it turns out as a very solid design and I like the look of it so much.

22/11/2025

Roger Dellar Edition Martlet 10x12 — design update.
I slightly lowered the height of the palette space borders, because the palette is now sitting on four magnets. This makes it even more stable inside, easier to clean, and it no longer needs the lid of the pochade box to hold it down from above.
I also added decorative buttons on the lid of the wet panel carrier.

03/10/2025

Bingo! The Haypost is shipping to the United States again. They now collect Trump's tariffs on checkout.

I have updated the website. At least there should be no problems with customs clearance, which I feared it could be. But, of course, it's not as great as good old Fe Minimis times IMO 😁

16/08/2025

The test model of the All-in-One pochade box for 6x10 panels with the removable side brush case and changeable top pockets. We'll see maybe it'll become the main design.

Also there is a new juicy color "Chocolate truffle". It is a dark warm brown oil stain, I'm sure you'll like it.

This one is on the website right now, on sale price.

12/04/2025

A design update for Martlet 10x12 and 9x12 and large Lori boxes. I decided to get rid of those large hinges because I had a hard time finding them in the market. And those I managed to buy are not good. So now I will use 4 small hinges on these designs. The boxes are lighter that way and are able to be used with slightly larger panels so I think nobody will miss that big hinges.

Everything else's staying the same for now.

01/12/2023

Hey fellow oil painters! For those who like to make little oil sketches: we have two Martlet Cube boxes for 4x6 panels with wet panel carrier and a drawer. The pochade boxes are on sale, 15% off.

01/12/2023

29/08/2023

Hey, good news for those who like my art as well as pochade boxes. I have listed a few mini paintings to the website. I can make a custom float frames for them also.

02/11/2022

Here is my video about the Martlet Medium model. It was quite a hard work for me to make it on English 😅

28/03/2022

Hey friends!

You probably know about all the problems we have with sanctions, and our Etsy store and account were suspended because of that. We are heading to Armenia soon and will try to settle there and continue making easels. We have built a number of pochade boxes and will send them to the US warehouse. You can find us at our Pinkoi shop: https://en.pinkoi.com/store/martletpochades and our new site: https://martletpochades.com/ If any questions, please send us a message in Instagram:

Lightweight pochade boxes for mounting on a photo tripod, brush case to hang on the easel, gift for artist, hand-stitched leather strap