Reply To: Lamp trouble: Help diagnose or suggest replacements

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I got one of the lamps mentioned in Luke’s video (see weekender for link). It’s brilliant.  When I bought it, the price was £16. Obviously I’m not the only one to watch the video and get one, because the price has shot up to £21. But even at that price, it’s a great little lamp for painting.

I have mine at about head height, just in front of me, pointed down onto my hands as I’m painting. Unlike the angle-poise lamp with daylight bulb as I was using, it doesn’t get so hot as to start drying out the paints on my wet palette.

The lamp has about five brightness levels (I run it at full brightness for painting details, but in daylight, or for colour matching, knock it back a level or two) and three different colour profiles (although the “warm white” is a bit too yellow to be any good for painting/matching colours reliably).

In short – it’s a brilliant little lamp to clamp on your desk and paint by!