Hobby artists rank in the millions, and starting a business that builds and sells art easels is a very easy and inexpensive enterprise to get rolling. The business can be operated from a small ...

Some of the pastel sticks at Diane Leifheit's easel. She says pastel is the purest form of pigment. Photo: Todd Moe DL: It’s immediate, is what I call it. It’s right there and it doesn’t change.