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Orient Painting Direction to Light Source

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about lighting when it comes to ceilings and so one of the rules that you want to keep kind of a rule of thumb is that you're going to roll against the lighting that is coming into the room so the room we're standing in here we have windows to the north and we have windows to the south now because we're in the Northern Hemisphere all most of our light is going to come in through that south window it's a really good idea to go against that light so if the lights coming in from Crystal Chris is the light imagine Chris is the light whoa right you want to go this way against that light because if you go down towards the light you're going to pick up all the edges of those lap marks and lap marks really are just high points in the paint that you've left on I'm usually because there's not enough paint on there or it's drying too fast and it doesn't have an opportunity to gel out so what would happen if you're in a room that had no windows well you you just don't you shouldn't be there why are you painting them don't even bay Nick as deputy conceded I even bought and there's probably no doors either in which case we have a conundrum but really what so if that's the case so lighting is our first priority wherever those windows are coming in we're gonna prioritize a south-facing window if the windows around the east or the west same thing you still want to go against the light now if you're in a room with no windows generally what we're teaching our guys is that you want to prioritize going against wherever the entrance to the room is so if you have the entrance say behind here someone's going to walk into that room again we want to go side to side and not towards where that door is again we're just giving ourselves the best odds for if things do dry a little too fast that you're not going to see any of those lap marks so what would

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