All, I'm trying to solve my lighting problems here in dreary early sunset UK so as I can actually get some painting done when I get home these days:has anyone got any advicee at all?
I've seen daylight bulbs but i've also been told that strip lamps are preferable for painting (and photography) as they provide a less directional light thus solving the problem of shadows that single sources lamps provide.
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I like a 60W desk lamp - it gives good light, but the major bonus is how hot it gets - it can dry the paint on a mini in seconds, you can even see the vapour as the paint evaporates! (It also keeps me warm on these freezing nights we've been having    )

Problem is, that it can also dry your wet pallette out  

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I have fluorescent bulbs over my painting area and back it up with a second fluorescent desk lamp that has a strip bulb.  Definitely get lighting that is less directional and use more than one source if possible.

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I bought a ring shaped lamp with a magnifying glass in the middle, on the end of an extendy arm that can attach to your desk of whatever. That was years back around the time I stopped painting though and I've never actually used it. I came across it recently and am meaning to have a go with it soon. Generally a daylight bulb is recommended for painting as colours look rather different under more yellowy normal light bulbs.

I bought a strip lamp for not very much from argos for photographing models with, it gives good diffuse light and has helped my photography get a lot better. Don't think it's daylight though, may have to look into seeing if you can buy a daylight strip bulb to go in it.

I was using a 60W daylight bulb in a normal desk lamp and it wasn't great. If i had it on my desk it was too hot/close, if i had it elsewhere it didn't seem much better than normal lamp.

Ive now got a portable 13W fluorescent lamp which is far better, far cooler and portable, cant recomend it highly enough over the old daylight bulb

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I use the extendy arm lamp with a florescent tube from ikea. Daylight bulbs are for your golden deamon contestents it only effects how your models look in daylight. as mine are only ever seen in artifical light...

its personal preferance really.

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I've got a strip fluorescent desk lamp from Ikea. Though when it's warming up it tends to flicker a little. Only lasts about 10 minutes though - enough time to make go make a cuppa while calms down!

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Ideally I'd try and get a daylight corrected LED lamp tht imitates daylight by mixing red, yellow and blue led bulbs. Problem is that most "daylight" bulbs are simply coated blue over a regular yellowish tungsten bulb, or flourescent light. Currently I use a daylight corrected flourescent light I bought years ago, but actually it is not that great: the color is still much too green, and flourescent lights i general are very poor in terms of the color spectrum they give: You basically paint blind with the colors as you know they will nook in the daylight, and not how they actually look while you're painting.

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I've got one of those, although it just sits on the desk rather than clamping to it (see here). It has a nice diffuse light and is fairly colour-neutral. And the lens comes in handy at times, too. I really like it.

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I use a 100w halogen lamp directly over what I'm painting, keeping my palette well away from direct lighting if I'm mixing/blending (it does get a bit warm). On the plus side, it does help to dry ink washes more quickly.

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I use a flexo with a 22W fluorescent in my painting desk and a 60W low energy for the rest of the room ( the two are on when I'm painting).

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I use this, it gives great light and clamps to the table edge securely. It comes from Ikea and is only $20 US. They sell the replacement bulbs for a couple dollars each, bought 2 when I bought the lamp though I'm still using the original. This is probably the same lamp that someone else mentioned in this thread as it does flicker a bit for the first couple minutes, but I just let it warm up while I'm getting organized. I like this so much I bought a couple for other work spaces around the house.

id recommend getting a job that starts really early like mine so your home after a full day by noon  then you have the whole afternoon of natural daylight, and its all free  


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I use a similar type lamp as Ace, which is on the desk. It does, though, supplement the normal ceiling based lighting that is in the room, eliminating the shadows as I hunch over my laboratory (cue Boris Karloff voice).

Since I don't consider myself to the level of Michaelangelo, I strive for as much light as I can get, figuring it all comes out in the wash.

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