In this tutorial realist painter Alex Tzavaras shows you how to light your studio for oil painting.

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When oil painting, we are not actually painting the object placed in front of us. What we are really painting is light. This makes art studio lighting our most important art material.

The best art studio lighting for painting is natural daylight. In the Northern hemisphere this would be from a North facing window. However, we do not all have the luxury of a painting studio with natural light. Also some of us may choose to work outside of daylight hours. If that is case, there are lots of different kinds of art studio lighting setups available using Daylight lamps. But not all daylight lamps are created equal. In this video Alex shows you what he believes to be the best kind of daylight lamps to use, BiColour LED Video light. Using these lights, Alex show you how you can acheive a painting studio lighting set up at home that is comparable with natural daylight.

0:00 Intro
0:57 Natural Daylight
2:57 BiColour LED Video Lights
4:33 Pixapro VNIX1000B
4:46 Neewer 660
5:42 Light Temperature
6:34 Colour Rendering Index
8:35 Adjusting Brightness
9:09 Diffusers and Soft Boxes
9:45 Lighting your Canvas and Palette
10:40 Fluorescent Strip Lights
11:28 Easel Lamps
12:12 Dealing with Glare

The Daylight lamps Alex recommends using, are the following BiColour Dimmable LED Video lights:

https://www.essentialphoto.co.uk/prod...

https://neewer.com/collections/bicol...

Alex Tzavaras is a contemporary realist artist offering portrait painting and alla prima oil painting tutorials. Alex teaches the traditional painting techniques artists used to draw and paint from life up until the start of the 20th century.

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