Re: Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art? And colorists
Re: Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art? And colorists
- Subject: Re: Kelvin Relevance in Fine Art? And colorists
- From: bill agee <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 07:42:45 -0800
My practical experience is that practicing artists use quartz halogens
/ 3200k variety because that is what most galleries and retail stores
use to show their work. I remember one time when I lived in Laguna
Beach, CA, I had a house with a nice place to paint outside in mainly
north light. I used acrylics and the advantage was that the air was
fresh and I could easily paint large canvas. The only problem was that
when they were taken inside the gallery, they looked entirely
different.. From then on, I painted under 3200k quartz halogens and
have never been disappointed about the color changing.
I am sure the solux show colors more perfectly, but since no gallery I
know uses them, it is not practical to use them while one paints.
Bill Agee
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B I L L A G E E
capistrano beach, california
http://redsilver.com/
On Feb 4, 2005, at 12:51 PM, neil_snape wrote:
on 04/02/2005 20:01, Roger Breton wrote :
Ott-Lite lamp and my custom-powered Solux 4700K halogens. Well,
nothing
impressed him in all these lamps except my pair of custom-powered
4700K
Solux halogens. That really popped his eyes wide opened. We
successively
aimed the Solux at all the walls in his studio, where some of his
collection
of paintings hung proudly : it was like a revelation to him. He said
to me
"stop looking for the ideal lamp, this is it"! He confided he never
seen his
painting that way, saying there were just some colors that he said he
never
seen!
Even though I have two Normlichts here I still would prefer a bank of
Solux
lights. Just as in photography I feel the closer the light is to a
smooth
natural light the better colors you'll see. I use the best flash
available
yet nothin is better than daylight. As far as viewing goes tungsten
has such
a smooth curve that fluorescent tubes just can't touch.
Now why don't we just use 3200 K 1000w bulbs filtered with 80B?????
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