Abstract: A collapsible easel for artists and the like to support flexible or rigid drawing surfaces in various modes of operation comprising a composite outer leg unit joined co-axially to a similar composite inner leg unit that are pivotal from a collapsed co-planar position to extended operative positions within quadrant arcs, each having an upper and lower horizontal member and each a pair of parallel main legs which house correspondingly co-extendible auxiliary legs and individually extendible leveling legs which have releasable locking means providing height and leveling adjustment thereto, a stabilizer bar pivotally interconnected to one lower horizontal member extended in perpendicular alignment therefrom slidably and pivotally engaged to the other lower horizontal member having a releasable locking means to support the extended positions of the composite leg units, a translatable counter pivotal structure slidably and pivotally engaged perpendicularly to the upper horizontal member of the composite inner leg u