Sandy,
I work on an easel...and I stand up. My studio faces north and west.
Recently I took down my ceiling fan and installed two color corrected
fluorescent fixtures on the ceiling. I work between the two so there are no
shadows thrown on my work. It is the very best solution I have come up
with. I can now work into and through the evening with no trouble and on
cloudy days the lighting creates a "daylight" ambiance. Just another
alternative.
Jane
PS. I ordered the bulbs via the web very inexpensively. The major expense
was for the fixtures and the electrician to install the fixtures.
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From: Lana Johnson
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:04 AM
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Karen,
I'm so sorry about the loss of your parakeet. I had no idea they lived so
long.
I'm also interested to see what other artists are doing about light sources.
I use the same style you do -- a combo lamp -- and I'm truly concerned about
the difficulty in finding incandescent bulbs. I don't like the color cast
by the Ott lights but it looks like we may not have a choice in the near
future. Does anyone have any other options they'd like to share?
Sandy Williams
www.soundofwings.com
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From: Karen Ackoff <[log in to unmask]>
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I have an old IKEA drafting table... bought circa 1980. I've made a few
adaptations to keep the table top at a set angle, and I angle it only very
slightly so I can put my paints, water, etc. on it. Then I put a table easel
on top of it. I use one of two...
Paper & Ink Arts (which cater largely to a calligraphic and crafts crowd)
sell table top easels in two different sizes (or they used to... I only see
the 18x24 size on their web site now). The adjust to an almost vertical
angle, and the top is a white plexi, so you could place a light behind it
and easily use it as a light table. They are very light and great for
traveling.
http://www.paperinkarts.com/dbplx2.html
For smaller works, I like an easel that Koo Schadler's husband makes (Koo is
a phenomenal egg tempera and silverpoint artist who works in the style of
master paintings). It is heavier, which I like when I'm working at home. It
is 14 x 20 inches.
http://www.kooschadler.com/egg-tempera-store.htm
For the record, I have a very old small drafting table, probably bought from
Sears circa 1940. My father studied architecture, and it was his. In his
won't, he later painted it white and black. I'm tempted to strip it down,
although I'm sure it's made of inexpensive pine. But it still works just
fine.
I'd be curious to know what kind of lighting people are using. I still like
my old desk lamp better than anything... a combo of florescent and
incandescent. But of course incandescent bulbs are slowly going the way of
the dinosaur. Ott lights and lights of that sort are too blue for me, and
they also seem to make things "flat".
My studio is also equipped with 2 black cats, both rescued from the street,
who routinely knock things over. I find erasers on the floor in the corner.
They also like to sleep on my router, despite all my attempts to the
contrary. The dogs and birds live in the upper levels of my house. And just
as an aside, I just lost my mustache parakeet, Nakeeta. He was 29 and died
of liver cancer (he had liver disease for 15 years, and took his meds twice
a day, every day, without complaint. Good-byes are hard.
K
On Jun 11, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Bruce Bartrug <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
What a great idea, Amy. In the past, I used the same approach to change the
height of a desk, depending on what I was working on. It wasn't to allow
standing, just to allow the work to get closer to my eyes, so I could remove
my glasses and not have to bend over to get close to the work. I'm more
than a little near-sighted, as you may have guessed :). That was before I
gained a few decades and needed lenses to help with close vision. The more
I think about it, however, I may revive the arrangement. I wouldn't need a
coffee table either, just a wooden box of appropriate height.......
b
On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Jennifer Gibas <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi Amy, I have a lightweight $30 IKEA Lack coffee table set on top of my
desk, legs cut to fit my height. There's enough room for my mouse,
keyboard, Wacom drawing tablet and a cup of coffee. It's been totally great.
I put it up and down to alternate between sitting and standing a couple of
times a day. Because it's so light, no problem. I looked around for "real"
standing desks before doing this, and didn't find anything that would work
as well for what I do.
The listserv won't let photo attachments go through, so email me privately
if you want to see it.
Jen Gibas
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