• What to look for when buying lights

• Colour temperature of lights and what they mean

• Different styles and shapes of lights and why that matters.

• Tips on how to light your still life.

• Light recommendations.

• Different attachments to make them act like more than one style of light.

• Gels and changing colour temperatures

You don’t have to have these things for the livestream. These are just a good guide so you can see what you may need. 

Lights

The cheapest option is free!!! It’s called Natural light. Take your painting into a naturally lit room or even outside on an overcast day, we will be covering this on the day. 

A great low budget option by a company called Amaran. The smaller cheaper option offered by Aputure (Amaran is their sister company). Incredibly versatile, I will be explaining why these lights are great as an option they are around £297 - great bang for you buck they are so bright. We use these in the studio to light models. 

Cinefoil - for controlling light

Softbox is always optional -

Neewer softbox

Aputure softbox

Fresnel attachment

Lighting gels (for different colours, the skin tone one i was referring to is “cosmetic rouge”)

Higher end lighting option -

Godox light matts - amazon doesn’t sell them

Aputure light storm

We will have this online for 1 year due to newer technologies always coming out.