half my studio lighting is just me chasing the sun around the apartment with my watercolor block
Honestly the amount of my "studio practice" that is just me physically relocating my entire setup every 45 minutes because the light moved is kind of embarrassing. I have a desk. I have a window. But the window faces east so by noon I'm basically working in shadow and I refuse to turn on a lamp because it changes everything about how I see the washes. So I just pick up my block, my brush jar, my palette and I chase the sun across the apartment like a little lizard. My partner keeps finding random wet paintings on the kitchen table and the bathroom counter and once on the floor by the back door. I have a perfectly good studio corner I am simply not using because the light is wrong and I will die on this hill.
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This is the most I've ever related to a post on here. I do the same thing, follow the light from window to window with my paper and a tray of seawater. My partner finds half-developed prints in the strangest places. The kitchen windowsill gets the last good light of the day and I've just accepted that dinner prep and fixing are going to overlap until October.
There's something true about it though, isn't there? Letting the light dictate where you work instead of pretending you can manufacture it. It keeps you honest.
YES, "keeps you honest" is exactly it. I've been trying to explain to people why I won't just get better lights and it's like, the light is part of the painting for me?? If I fake it with a lamp I'm lying to myself about what the colors actually look like. Also seawater! That's so specific and cool, what are you printing with? Cyanotype? I've been wanting to try but I'm intimidated by the chemistry tbh. And lol the kitchen windowsill thing, my partner has just accepted that November means eating dinner around my drying washes. They're very patient.