Seeing the Light:

Professional Lighting Solutions for the Artist's Studio

Plenty of natural light during the day,
but controlling the reflected wall light is essential here.
(Photograph courtesy RDM Architecture)

Learning to see as an artist is no doubt a lifelong task, requiring countless hours of observation, comparison and reproduction of our real-life subjects. Recent research into how our brains learn to perceive our world have revealed that the repeated, prolonged practice of studying a subject intently actually rewires our brains. Apparently, training ourselves to observe more accurately causes new connections to be formed in the visual cortex, leading to ever better observations over time. This is a particularly critical process when it comes to analyzing and matching color, and the practice over time can’t be shortcut. If one is going to invest a great deal of time and energy in learning how to work with color and paint, it only makes sense to get the lighting in the…