[Leica] Last thoughts on photographing art.

[lrzeitlin at aol.com]

Adam,
If your artist friend has a number of relatively small watercolors, charcoal drawings or pen and ink drawings, the best way to photograph them is to simply scan them on a large format flatbed scanner. Kinkos, Office Depot or Staples usually has machines which scan material up to 24" wide. I personally have a scanner which will do 14 x 17 images. The scanner holds everything flat and provides even lighting. It works on smaller paintings too. It is dead easy. 
Larry Z