URBAN GOAT PLEIN AIR PAINTBOX
Why GOAT?
Most Compact & Lightweight
Easiest & Fastest Setup
Finest Quality & Craftsmanship
Thanks to all who visited our booths at PACE26 and Oil Painters of America!
We are working to finish and ship orders made at the shows, then will start a new batch of 11×14” Alpines and 9×12” Minis in both mahogany and maple frames. We’d love to hear from you if you have any questions or requests.
European Orders: We do ship to UK and EU. but we invoice separately for shipping and VAT. It is usually $70 for FedEx delivery and 20% VAT, depending on destination, and takes about a week to arrive.
Built for painters more comfortable with a studio setup: painting palette at waist height and canvas at eye level. The palette and brush trays attach to your tripod legs using fold-out mounts, while the panel holder grips onto your adjustable tripod head with a low profile Arca-swiss plate.
The Urban Goat Gravitas has the quickest setup and most compact form factor of any gravity mount easel on the market. And it is beautifully hand crafted with hardwoods that we pick out and mill in our Palo Alto workshop.
Like our Alpine Goat pochades, the trays fold out and feature lampwork glass beads on elastic shock cord to hold your brushes secure and separated. The detachable panel holder uses our spring loaded “goat grip” mechanism to hold your paintings secure, yet allow you to insert or remove instantly with just one hand. When you are done painting, everything that might be messy with paint folds inwards, and the canvas holder detaches from your tripod and fits compactly between the brush trays.
Key Features:
Solid Frame Wood Type: Sapele
Ply Wood Palette Type: Mahogany
Finish: Osmo Polyx Hard Wax Oil
Beads: Lampwork Glass and Brass spacers
Effortless Setup & Storage – Quick and easy to set up and store, so you're ready to paint in no time.
Lightweight & Portable – Designed for easy portability, making it simple to take your art anywhere.
Compact Design – Panel holder detaches from tripod head and fits between trays during storage
Versatile Use – for plein air with a tripod or in the studio with home easel
Generous Wood Palette Space – Ample room to preload and organize your paints before heading out. Our beautiful wood palettes are finished with an ultra smooth varnish that’s ready to paint on and easy to clean.
Secure Panel Holder – Tri-clasp “Goat Grip” design with a spring-loaded brackets ensures your panels stay firmly in place in any weather.
Quick Panel Release – Effortlessly remove and replace panels with the quick-release system.
Instant Brush Tray Access – Brush trays open in a second, providing easy access when you need them. When you are done, they fold close with no mess.
Secure Brush Storage – Beaded elastic bands keep your brushes safely separated and organized.
Clear View – The slim panel holder design ensures an unobstructed view of your subject.
Integrated Arca-Swiss Plate – Features an integrated low-profile Arca-Swiss tripod plate for quick and secure tripod setup, as well as Universal mount for other tripod types.
Pochade Dimensions & Specs:
Exterior Dimensions:
Width: 14 inches
Height: 11 inches
Depth: 1.5 inches
Interior Palette Dimensions:
Width: 13 inches
Height: 9.5 inches
Depth: 0.675 inches
Panel/Canvas Size Range:
The paintbox holds panels/canvases that are between 5" and 16" tall and between 5" and 18" width
Weight: 3 pounds - includes palette, trays, panel holder and mounts
Introducing the Mini Goat - our most compact paintbox - now in Maple or Mahogany. Please allow 2-4 weeks to complete.
Hand crafted from hewn African Mahogany or North American Ambrosia Maple in our Palo Alto workshop, the “Kid” sports a smaller and lighter footprint than our flagship Alpine Goat. Exterior dimensions are 12 by 9 inches, similar in size to an Edge Pro-Gear Medium paintbox, but weighing significantly less.
Ideal for painting on the go, the Mini Goat is small and light enough to fit easily in your day pack, with our without a tripod. The palette is large and deep enough to pre-load with oil paint before you head out. The Goat Grip panel holder supports paintings 16” in width and 12” vertically, but when painting small (6” by 10” or less), you may actually close the Mini Goat with your painting safely held inside above the palette mixing area; this comes in handy when the weather changes and you must pack up quickly, or space is too tight for a wet panel carrier.
Key Features:
Solid Wood Frame: North American Ambrosia Maple or African Mahogany with strong bevelled box joints
Wood Palette Type: North American Basswood or African Mahogany Ply with Poplar core. Ample room to preload and organize your paints before heading out. The beautiful wood palette is finished with a smooth Danish Oil and Polyurethane blend that’s ready to mix paint on and easy to clean.
Integrated Utility Trays: Fold out in a second when setting up, and fold close just as fast when it’s time to go, leaving the mess on the inside and clean and tidy on the outside.
Two strands of beaded elastic in each tray provides the easiest and most secure method of holding and keeping your wet paintbrushes separated.
Goat Grip painting panel holder - Patent pending Goat Grip allows you to effortlessly insert or swap paintings using just one hand, yet securely holds your painting with multiple spring loaded contact points even when bumped or blown by strong winds.
Clear View – The slim panel holder design ensures an unobstructed view of your subject, even when painting in small sized formats.
Integrated Arca-Swiss Plate – Features an integrated low-profile Arca-Swiss tripod plate for quick and secure tripod setup, as well as Universal mount for other tripod types.
Pochade Dimensions & Specs:
Exterior Dimensions:
Width: 12 inches
Height: 9 inches
Depth: 1.5 inches
Interior Palette Dimensions:
Width: 11 inches
Height: 7.5 inches
Depth: 0.675 inches
Panel/Canvas Size Range:
The paintbox holds panels/canvases that are between 4" and 13" tall and between 4" and 16" width
Weight: 2 pounds (Maple and Basswood) or 2.2 pounds (Mahogany)
All items are hand made with natural materials by a small team of craftsmen in California. Handmade items may have slight variations and blemishes that are a result of the crafting process. We believe these that these superficial details add to the uniqueness of each box but stand by the functionality of each and every item we create, guaranteeing all functional parts of our pochade boxes.
Introducing our lightest full sized pochade - the Alpine Pilgrim - crafted with a solid Ambrosia Maple frame, lightweight basswood palette, brass components, custom leather and marine-grade snaps, locally milled aluminum mounting plate, unique lampwork glass beaded brush holders, and a beautifully figured hard wax oil finish.
No other large-palette easel on the market is as compact and lightweight to travel with, or easy to set up as the Pilgrim. Urban Goat’s tri-fold design is the only compact easel that sports both trays and panel holder that fold out from the palette. Oil painting can be messy business, but with brush trays and panel holder folding inwards, it’s easier to keep the mess close to the palette and the box’s outside clean to touch. It sets up in seconds whether on a tripod by the ocean, on your lap in the grass, or on your kitchen table at home. And just as important, it’s effortless to fold up cleanly when done. Closed, its solid wood frame, finely crafted finger joints, beveled edges, and figured wood finish are a work of art in itself.
At Urban Goat we value people and craftsmanship as much as innovative design and ease of use. Other manufacturers utilize industrial grade plywood ground out by computer driven machines to mass produce their easels. Whereas at Urban Goat we hand pick beautifully figured hardwood, and in our workshop our expert woodworkers (real people, not computers!) using over a hundred skilled steps craft raw wood, brass and aluminum into a pochade in which every tiny detail serves a purpose in the overall design - beauty, ease of use, function, and artist efficiency.
While crafting hardwood by hand takes more skill and effort than having a machine grind out plywood, we do it for multiple reasons - the Alpine is both stronger and lighter than theirs. We are able to fully align the grain of the hardwood to provide the most strength where it is needed most: along the spine and arms. This frees up more interior space - we provide over half an inch of vertical space above the palette surface for your paint dabs to safely live from one paint session to the next. There’s even enough vertical space above the palette to safely close your Alpine with an 8 × 12” wet panel in the goat grip. Also, Urban Goat woodworkers are way more fun be around than a CNC router :-)
Key Features:
Solid Frame Wood Type: North American Ambrosia Maple
Ply Wood Palette Type: Basswood in Natural or Gandalf Grey wood stain
Logo: Urban Goat
Finish: Osmo Hard Wax Oil
Beads: Lampwork Glass and/or Polished Stone with Brass spacers
Hardware: Solid Brass side hinges, Leather and marine-grade snaps, solid brass goat grip panel holder and internal vise grip
Effortless Setup & Storage – Quick and easy to set up and store, so you're ready to paint in no time.
Lightweight & Portable – Designed for easy portability, making it simple to take your art anywhere.
Compact Design – Low-profile shape fits easily into most carriers for convenient transport.
Versatile Use – Compatible with tripods, laptops, or tabletops for flexible painting setups.
Generous Wood Palette Space – Ample room to preload and organize your paints before heading out. Our beautiful wood palettes are finished with an ultra smooth varnish that’s ready to paint on and easy to clean.
Secure Panel Holder – Tri-clasp “Goat Grip” design with a spring-loaded brackets ensures your panels stay firmly in place in any weather.
Quick Panel Release – Effortlessly remove and replace panels with the quick-release system.
Instant Brush Tray Access – Brush trays open in a second, providing easy access when you need them. When you are done, they fold close with no mess.
Secure Brush Storage – Beaded elastic bands keep your brushes safely separated and organized.
Adjustable Panel Holder – Friction hinges allow you to adjust the panel holder to any angle.
Clear View – The slim panel holder design ensures an unobstructed view of your subject.
Integrated Arca-Swiss Plate – Features a custom integrated low-profile Arca-Swiss tripod plate for quick and secure tripod setup, as well as Universal mount for other tripod types.
Pochade Dimensions & Specs:
Exterior Dimensions:
Width: 14 inches
Height: 11 inches
Depth: 1.5 inches
Interior Palette Dimensions:
Width: 13 inches
Height: 9.5 inches
Depth: 0.675 inches
Panel/Canvas Size Range:
The paintbox holds panels/canvases that are between 5" and 15" tall and between 5" and 18" width
Weight: 2.5 pounds - includes wood palette, trays, panel holder, tripod mount (not tripod)
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