How to Light Your Studio for Oil Painting

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

0:00 Intro
0:57 Natural Daylight
2:57 Bi-Colour 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 Bi-Colour Dimmable LED Video lights:

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[RomainEugeneArt]

I have seen hundreds of videos in the subject of oil painting but your channel Alex is a goldmine. Your explanations are always clear and to the point. Thank you a lot !

[gergelyjuhasz]

Once I painted a still life with candles and it looked pretty cool, the flames of the candles looked almost glowing. Then I placed the painting in the kitchen and in daylight it looked lifeless. Evening come I switched on the warm white kitchen lights and the painting came back alive. So next day obviously replaced the bulb in the room I paint for a cooler one. So yeah colour temperature is really important.
Thanks for the great content again!

[yematosan]

Always your video knowlegble, this channel is vary vary important for every student and beginer. I recommend this channel No1.

[kajwilstorp]

you are always kind to me alex thats why you are my favorite painter

[marlenemeek]

Your channel is absolutely one of the most informative and best online sources of information for the beginner oil painter that I have found and I have been watching videos online for over ten years. Thank you for giving young people a solid start who desire to learn to paint portraits and still life work in the classical realist method. I wish I had found you ten years ago. 😔

[dansoloskerzo]

this is the best and interesting video about light in general on the internet. Thanks, your work and explainations are very well done, and I don't paint neither!

[jonroads]

Great timing, I've literally just started looking into better lighting doing your course 😁

[meggsmuss]

Great Video! This is the clearest explanation I've seen what the benefits of a high CRI are to a painter. I knew it was regarding accuracy of a colour temp but didn't know the details regarding the spectrum. Thanks!

[jakovj.m.]

Finally, I asked this of you a long time ago, very helpfully, thanks

[BGrammstein]

Absolutely invaluable information, just when I was looking for studio lights. Thank you!

[herrtio]

Thank you for a highly informative, much needed, video.

[glennlaurents]

Just found your YouTube channel, you are clear, direct, informative and much appreciated. Thank you.

[arielceleda]

Thanks a lot for taking the time making the video. Is really interesting/important and it helps as always! My best regards Alex!

[kalilavalezina]

Thank you so much for taking the time to create this video. Very helpful!

[kajwilstorp]

hello alex like this light is important i also like that painting of you that you have in the background what a masterpice

[sandradodson]

Thank you, Alex. Very helpful and easy to follow

[lluhu]

Your videos are so well done and thought through. Many thanks!

[callmedeno]

Wow that is the most informative thorough video on this subject I've seen. Well done.

[royking]

Thanks SO MUCH!!! I've been wondering about this issue. I've just started painting after many years away from it. I know my studio is very poorly lite, and now I have some ideas of how to solve this problem. Well done!