I'd never heard any info about museum standards of brightness, that's incredibly useful knowledge. I love your content, thank you so much! Please keep it up :D
Like Diana's comment, I've never heard about museum standards - very useful considering that more than a few artists on You Tube that have talked about studio lighting, they are "recommending" using 5000K - 5500K (very cold). To say that I was shocked with the 2500K - 3500K standard is an understatement! Another interesting thing - none of them talked about Lux at all. Thank you so much!
Thank you very much. A lot of times we ( the artists) dive into paintings so deep not leaving any time for studying the in iron tent around... like galleries, museums, and business site of our own business. My goal is to help my fallow artist to discover it.
Finally, some really good studio lighting advice, and Sotheby's agrees with you, they say the colour temperature should be a warm 2700k and the CRI above 95. I'm ashamed to admit that I've been using a 6,500K fluorescent daylight light bulb. Yikes! Luckily I was so discouraged by my artwork done under this light that I slowed way down on my painting projects. They look great under the light, but when I take them out into my living room they look both dark and washed out. They were advertised as art studio lighting, unfathomable. I'm so excited, I just ordered a set of Neewer 660 led lights with softbox kits. They have everything you recommended, variable white balance from 3200 to 5600K, dimmable brightness, and a CRI rating of 97+. Now I'll be in charge of my lighting, not the lights. I'll keep you posted on how things go. Thanks again, for the great information Vlad!
Wow, great D K! Please let me know if you need any help setting it up. Please keep in mind.. something I forgot to mention in my episode.. the distance from the light to the canvas - not too far and not too close. I would love to see the results. Please keep me posted.
@@openstudiodI'll be using a LUX meter, your suggestion, to ensure the distance between my canvas and the led light is optimal. So, in a way you did mention it. 😄 I'm also, going to paint the wall directly behind my easel a mid-tone gray, as you advised Sheila Cruz to do. I love purple, so I'm thinking a purple hue will be perfect. I have struggled with lighting for years now, trying to figure out how to control it, but I'm confident that I've finally figured it out, with your help. The groundbreaking advancement, my ability to control the color temperature and LUX. I also have struggled with properly photographing my artwork. I'm hopeful that with my new light kit, which is geared for photography, this too will improve.🤞
I’m fairly sure that those standards are for displaying the artwork and do not apply to the actual process of creating the artwork. For painting, a colour temperature of 4500 to 5300 is recommended.
Very useful information. Another professional artist recommended to use very cold light to encourage warm paint choices. But I can see your point and have been using both cold and warm bulbs to try to balance everything. My question to you is in regards to painting outdoors when we only have natures light temperature to work with. Should I try to compensate if it is not perfect like studio lighting? TIA
No no no, do not mix natural light with any other artificial lights, even with the same temperature. You will have two paintings in one. The natural light is the best light to paint with, but if it’s too dark, I would cut the source of natural light and switch to studio light. You can easily test it, mix the grey with natural light, then with mix of natural, and with studio light. And compare all three with a good day light. You will see the deference’s.
Shelia, the wall behind your main studio easel should be gray. The other walls should be white or light gray. It is all about reflection! Make sure the walls are not reflecting any other colors from anything inside your studio. Good test is to get 50% gray card and white canvas, set the canvas on your main easel with a day light and set the gray card against the canvas and take a photo. Load this image into photoshop, adjust the white balance and than look at your canvas and see what color is on canvas. If there no reflection - your canvas should be white, or you will see the colors of reflection on your white canvas. I use to have light yellow-orange walls and could not figure out white my paintings were shifting toward orange. This test forced me to repaint my studio walls to light gray x and the problem is gone.
There is a standards for museums and art galleries. All museums are following this standards, the art galleries … well, well… if the gallery has at least good over several millions revenue… they will follow, because it is very critical.
I'd never heard any info about museum standards of brightness, that's incredibly useful knowledge. I love your content, thank you so much! Please keep it up :D
Thank you Diana.
Thank you for this video. Much appreciated.
Woah that museum temperature seems very warm, I would have assume if 5000 kelvin is roughly daylight that museums would use that. But great to know
Eyeopening! Very useful info, Vlad. Thank you!
My pleasure!
Like Diana's comment, I've never heard about museum standards - very useful considering that more than a few artists on You Tube that have talked about studio lighting, they are "recommending" using 5000K - 5500K (very cold). To say that I was shocked with the 2500K - 3500K standard is an understatement! Another interesting thing - none of them talked about Lux at all. Thank you so much!
Thank you very much. A lot of times we ( the artists) dive into paintings so deep not leaving any time for studying the in iron tent around... like galleries, museums, and business site of our own business. My goal is to help my fallow artist to discover it.
Finally, some really good studio lighting advice, and Sotheby's agrees with you, they say the colour temperature should be a warm 2700k and the CRI above 95. I'm ashamed to admit that I've been using a 6,500K fluorescent daylight light bulb. Yikes! Luckily I was so discouraged by my artwork done under this light that I slowed way down on my painting projects. They look great under the light, but when I take them out into my living room they look both dark and washed out. They were advertised as art studio lighting, unfathomable. I'm so excited, I just ordered a set of Neewer 660 led lights with softbox kits. They have everything you recommended, variable white balance from 3200 to 5600K, dimmable brightness, and a CRI rating of 97+. Now I'll be in charge of my lighting, not the lights. I'll keep you posted on how things go. Thanks again, for the great information Vlad!
Wow, great D K! Please let me know if you need any help setting it up. Please keep in mind.. something I forgot to mention in my episode.. the distance from the light to the canvas - not too far and not too close. I would love to see the results. Please keep me posted.
@@openstudiodI'll be using a LUX meter, your suggestion, to ensure the distance between my canvas and the led light is optimal. So, in a way you did mention it. 😄 I'm also, going to paint the wall directly behind my easel a mid-tone gray, as you advised Sheila Cruz to do. I love purple, so I'm thinking a purple hue will be perfect. I have struggled with lighting for years now, trying to figure out how to control it, but I'm confident that I've finally figured it out, with your help. The groundbreaking advancement, my ability to control the color temperature and LUX. I also have struggled with properly photographing my artwork. I'm hopeful that with my new light kit, which is geared for photography, this too will improve.🤞
@@openstudiod I found you on Facebook, so will message you there in regards to my progress.
@@DK-pl8xd great! Just stay away from any violet or purple colors:)
I’m fairly sure that those standards are for displaying the artwork and do not apply to the actual process of creating the artwork.
For painting, a colour temperature of 4500 to 5300 is recommended.
Does anyone know how to light the mixing pallete since it sits at a different angle, it is unlit and hard to see. Thanks.
Very useful information. Another professional artist recommended to use very cold light to encourage warm paint choices. But I can see your point and have been using both cold and warm bulbs to try to balance everything. My question to you is in regards to painting outdoors when we only have natures light temperature to work with. Should I try to compensate if it is not perfect like studio lighting? TIA
No no no, do not mix natural light with any other artificial lights, even with the same temperature. You will have two paintings in one. The natural light is the best light to paint with, but if it’s too dark, I would cut the source of natural light and switch to studio light. You can easily test it, mix the grey with natural light, then with mix of natural, and with studio light. And compare all three with a good day light. You will see the deference’s.
@@openstudiod Thanks, Also, then using the easel lamp during a Nocturn must be a Daylight balanced bulb I guess?
@@MsKatherineJo look at the temperature of the bulb
Thank you, this is a great video. What color do you suggest that your walls should be. Yours look to be gray.
Shelia, the wall behind your main studio easel should be gray. The other walls should be white or light gray. It is all about reflection! Make sure the walls are not reflecting any other colors from anything inside your studio. Good test is to get 50% gray card and white canvas, set the canvas on your main easel with a day light and set the gray card against the canvas and take a photo. Load this image into photoshop, adjust the white balance and than look at your canvas and see what color is on canvas. If there no reflection - your canvas should be white, or you will see the colors of reflection on your white canvas. I use to have light yellow-orange walls and could not figure out white my paintings were shifting toward orange. This test forced me to repaint my studio walls to light gray x and the problem is gone.
Which museums though? I feel like art galleries are all different. could range from super cheap art show to historical museums with marble floors
There is a standards for museums and art galleries. All museums are following this standards, the art galleries … well, well… if the gallery has at least good over several millions revenue… they will follow, because it is very critical.
Why do many artists prefer light from a window-North Light?
Partly because it changes the least