(Trying again, since I always get the order of when/where to add photos vs text wrong on here. :)
I got this rolling storage cart thingy and the saddle chair in an effort to build myself a rollable/tuck-away-able "studio" for watercolor. (Currently painting sitting on a zafu at the coffee table in the living room-- meaning my living room is an art vomitus when I'm in art mode, and I'm painting hunched over on a flat surface (no angle for water flow) and just a bunch of less-than-ideal stuff.)
It's got plenty of storage for all my assorted stuff, so I think that's going to work out great-- for everything but the actual painting surface bit, which is what I'm trying to sort out.
I got a desktop, adjustable "drawing board," thinking that would work, but that lies flat on the top surface, and the surface is lower than I expected, and the storage in the back prevents it opening sufficiently.
I'd ideally like to be able to stand or sit, so I am stumbled upon the idea of "book stands" and "telescoping book stands" on Amazon (hopefully I inserted the pictures right), which have a board backing (the one with the clear back would even help if tracing a reference) and moveable clips to hold the "book" (paper, in this case), and the way they hold the tilting book surface up is z-shaped, so I feel like it would work well around that storage in the back. (The top/back storage is 11" high by 5.5" deep- the perspective of the photo makes it look a bit bigger.)
Has anyone used a book stand to hold paper for painting? I might need to secure it the base of it to the top surface of the cart for stability, but I feel like it could work great-- looking through reviews, though, I'm not seeing that anyone has hacked one for this, and folks mention in reviews pretty pretty much anything and everything that does actually work for a different purpose.