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I have a wall of southeasterly windows, overlooking a small river, and I paint facing that wall. Then I have a sliding glass door to my right, over which I have track lighting controlled by a dimmer rheostat. I also have an Ottlight which I clamp to my easel, which gives me a nice, cool white light although it doesn't illuminate the canvas as evenly as I'd like. To supplement all that if I feel the need, and what I used to use solely, is a mudlamp. Painting with that, and with my current setup, the hues remain the same whether I'm looking at them in my studio or out of doors, in the sunlight. One downside to having my easels against the wall of windows is that light filters through the canvases, so I need to back them with standard sized masonite panels while I'm working on them. My walls are bright white. When I was building my studio the recommendations seemed split evenly between white and a neutral grey-tan sort of color. Since my first studio, which was my son's old room, had bright white walls and ceiling and I seemed to work well that way, I went with the white for the studio. I do wish I had more wall space because I've run out of room for my paintings, but then I imagine no artist ever is able to hang them all at once anyway.
I have a large double casement window which faces north upstairs in the loft, but I don't use that for painting. It might be a good area for framing eventually.
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