I planned on making a galaxy on her face…but it didn’t really work out the way I planned. Suddenly her image pops into my head, and I knew that that was what I was going to be my inspiration for this project. Fast forward to me sitting in my photo class here, and struggling to come up with an idea for my current project. Put black light glitter on someones face instead of makeup? Yeah, thats sick. A few months back, she had this genius idea for her senior year photography class. She is definitely one of the most gorgeous and down to earth people that I have ever met, and she also happens to be one of my best friends! She is incredibly creative and quite the photog herself. Just google blaghlight images and you find a lot of inspiration. Wall art, night sky in the room, stars on the wall are all the same. For abstract paintings, only your imagination is the limit. Be aware, some of your normal paints might already reflect blacklight. For painters you have to experiment a lot how your own paints mixed with blacklight paints react in both cases (daylight and blacklight). Painting them on top of a bought painting print is very easy for non-painters. So on your painting you have only to put this colors (invisible or not) on the sides of the objects which are exposed to the source of the light in the painting (i.e. This is a very simplified painting where I decided to go with only two blacklight colors (second image): blue and green. The sun (becomes a moon by night) sets the highlights in the painting: half of the mountains, half of the trees, glowing water, and the grass. See my first blacklight painting attached, daylight (first) and blacklight (second). Those are the areas which will have to glow under black light, and those are the colors you need. Look at your painting and see which areas are highlighted most. In a normal painting night scene you have a lot of dark and only some bright highlighted areas. First you have to look at your painting (or what you know your painting will look like) and decide what colors you need. The Amsterdam paints are very good for the first scenario, and the second but only if you are carefull how you apply them. Invisible paints also come in colors (meaning which color they reflect under blacklight). This will be used in the second scenario. The second one is invisible in daylight and visible with black light (UV) and therefore can be used on finished paintings without changing the apperance of the painting in daylight. The first one is also visible in daylight and you usually use it in scenario 1 when mixed with the normal paints to create the painting. There are two main categories of paint: visible blacklight paint and invisible blacklight paint. You find a lot of online shops if you google for "uv paint" or "blacklight paint" but here is one for you to see the difference between the paints.
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