Post #745679 by MaukaHale on Sat, Jun 27, 2015 12:34 PM

This project has turned out to be more engineering than art. I mentioned before that I wanted to do a painting on black velvet using black light UV paint. For this to work there needs to be a black light source. I looked for the smallest affordable light I could find and its 18 inches long so that determined the frame size and the size of the art work.

The light will be attached to the top with a deflector panel covering the front.

Instead of stretching the felt I glued it to a canvas board.

Here's the sketch of the painting.

Like everything else I had no idea in the beginning how to do this so I needed to do some testing. The body of the painting will actual be oil pastels with UV paint over the pastels. The first attempt was on paper that's for acrylic paint but the pastels didn't adhear that well.

Here it is with the UV paint.

My next test was on a sample of the black velvet fabric.

And here it is with UV paint.

I only have 4 weeks to work on this so its going to be tight. I don't have time the last week of July.

I sent a personal message to TU to see what he's up to. He told me he had to drop out of the swap because he had to take a second job this summer. Has someone else stepped up for leadership. I would do it but I'm not available the last week.

"People are like islands. You have to get close to them to know what they are about."
~ Adam Troy

[ Edited by: MaukaHale 2015-06-28 19:17 ]