Help chosing Monitor / TV for art studio

[Jarh_Art]

Hello!

I have 2 small notebooks in my studio, and im going to start oil painting(figure and portrait) and figure drawing courses in wich you draw in A2 sized paper.

I wont be on a flat table anymore, instead, on a inclined drawing table for drawing (wich the A2 paper ocupes it enterely) and for painting on a big old chunky studio easel (flat, static/ cant be inclined, maybe if i put something under the front “legs”)

I dont have space to put the notebooks close up and i will be working on big sizes, the studio is very little, so ideally i would put the tv/monitor in the wall(conected to the notebooks), meaning it needs to be a decent sice for me to be able to see the references well fom the easel or the drawing table

My fist tought was looking at pc monitors aimed for photo editing , such as this one:

dell ultrasharp u2719d 27″ led ips quadhd

Its the best quality inside of a “budget” price that i could find

Could be better a bigger TV sacrificing image quality? (for around the same price), is it really necesary for oil painting this level of image quality fo you references? my only concern is size, and color fidelity, more than high resolution and fine details needed for example for hyper-realism

All help is welcome, sugestions, examples, sharing your studio setups etc

Many Thanks!

[Yorky Administrator Ormskirk]

Sounds like a good compromise, use HDMI connector.

Doug

We must leave our mark on this world

[ZenDruid]

What Doug said.  I have a Dell like the one you mention that I bought several years ago for fine photo editing with Photoshop 7.  It was about $400 USD.  I love it.  However, monitors have come a long way since then and you can probably get something of good quality at a better price for your purposes.  I believe bigger is better, within reason, easier on the eyes.

You will have to shop around for size and price.  Places like WalMart or BestBuy, and make sure they have a return policy, no-questions-asked, of 30 days at least.  Make sure it works for you.

Color fidelity is very subjective, you’ll have to do a side-by-side comparison with the monitor and your work in progress.  The monitor should have some color adjustment app.  I assume your tablet can take a photo editing app for adjusting color balance.  Good luck.

(Reading again what you said:  You want to run a connecting cable from your notebook to the monitor?  Two years ago we bought a 40-inch (102cm) Vizio flat screen TV for $150 USD at WalMart.  The image is great and we typically watch it from about 9 feet away.  We stream it wirelessly from an old desktop computer in another room.  Maybe pick up a used desktop cheap, put it out of the way, run a cable to the TV, free up your two notebooks?)

ZD

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[Edward]

Do you have an interest in using LED monitors? This looks good that you can try.

[Steve Glass Photography]

I’m a photographer. I’ve been using Eizo monitors for about 11 years now. My first one was an entry level Eizo perhaps $1K when I bought it. My criteria was that it had to be able to be calibrated with something like a ColorMunki or similar system. It served me well for 8 years. It still works but got too dim to calibrate. It failed to take calibration right at the onset of Covid. I bought another like it used direct from Eizo. It’s now my second monitor.
My third Eizo I decided to splurge and spent about $2K on. It self calibrates. Couldn’t be more pleased.
For photography, calibration is essential. Not sure if this is helpful.
When I look at various retouching tutorials by high end retouchers I often recognize Eizo monitors on their desk.

http://www.steveglassphotographer.com/

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