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Hi Dianne, Greetings from Dublin, Ireland. Thank you for your brilliant tips. I have learned so much from them. I have a question about the appropriate lighting for oil painting. I have moved my desk easel around the room in many directions but find it difficult to really see the colours on my canvas and reference photos accurately. My overhead light is an antique and can't be changed. I noticed some kind of lamp in an Art shop and wondered would you recommend getting one of these to help me read the colours more accurately? Could you discuss this in a Quick Tip? Can you recommend a good lamp to get? Hope you can help. Kind regards, Terri
Hello Terri from Dublin! I address this in Quick Tip 306. Watch it and then if you still have questions, ask them here and we will take it from there. If you end up needing to go with a single lamp, I recommend a good swing arm lamp that either clamps onto your easel or is on an adjustable floor stand. Make sure it follows my recommendations in the quick tip. My favorite of those is no longer available with the LEDs now replacing lighting, but a good substitute is The Studio Designs Ascend LED swing arm. If that one is too expensive, photographer's box lights might be a better choice or the one in your art shop might be just right.
Burnt sienna is, indeed, a tube color. Its hue is in the orange range, usually orange leaning towards red. Hue is the color's identity. Color is the combination of hue, value and chroma (intensity or saturation).
