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Great Ideas for Your Home
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A nice painting can be enhanced with the right light. Here's how to light your masterpiece
The trick with highlighting a painting or other art object is to pick
the right bulb," says John Clawson, president of Galaxie Lighting. "The
type of light - whether recessed, surface mounted, or track lighting -
is less important than the light source, or bulb."
Low voltage and halogen bulbs come in a variety of possible beam
spreads and lumens (light output). Light bulb manufacturers and
recessed fixture companies such as Juno and Halo print easy-to-use
light bulb specification diagrams showing, for example, how bright a
particular bulb will project at a certain distance, and how wide the
beam spread will radiate. Using such charts, one can then "frame" the
painting or other object with the particular bulb best suited to the
distance between the object and the light fixture.
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