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Thank you Clayton
Dear Clayton, not only are you a contributing author to that article, your beautiful paintings are featured in the article! I had to go downstairs to get the magazine from the living room - I've spent hours dreaming about the studios in that magazine sitting on my sofa! - and I had bookmarked the page containing your painting of the nude on the sofa! Beautiful work, also the head is amazing two pages later.
I did read that article and it was very helpful with regard to artificial light, I will be using artificial light too. I have a north facing window and now we're adding a dormer on the roof with a 5' wide x 2' tall window. Surely that'll get me a good amount of north light. The window will be vertical (thanks Marvin).
I'm not sure where to put the artificial lights. I bought two flourescent boxes holding 4 lights each. In my mind they should supplement the artificial light so they should be as close to the windows as possible. Maybe one right below where the dormer starts? That's about the only place it'll fit. If I put it above where the dormer is cut out, it'll basically be overhead lighting. Oh, maybe on either side of the window in the wall. I think I'll have to post a photo to make all this clear.
Thank you Clayton for your advice about making the studio what I need and not what any other artist needs. I do have the advantage that I've been painting in that room so I am familiar with the lighting as it is (without the addition of the roof dormer). And I'll be painting models from life, and a client when I can get one to pose, so that at least narrows down the conditions I need.
Joan
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