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Yesterday during class Jordan, Evan and I were running around painting on the walls with water. After about 20 minutes of tomfoolery, one of us found a can of Gamsol (mineral spirits) and we decided to try painting with it instead. In the corner of the room, a giant sheet of brown craft paper was hanging from ceiling to floor. We are in the fine arts building, and state law requires that windows be covered whilst nude models are present… since our school is hella old and jankety, the blinds were bent in half and didn’t work. Which is why someone had taped up the paper. (In case you were wondering) as we painted, the light began to shine through our brushstrokes. It looked rad, so we "borrowed" the can, and after class we bought a bunch of paper and had at it some more.
The process is fairly simple:
• Take a sheet of paper (brown or coloured works best) and put it up against a light source.
• Then procure a grease/oil substance (we used a mineral spirit) and apply it to the surface... the lipids will soak into the paper and make it translucent, so the light sources is revealed.
• The effect only looks awesome whilst the paper remains illuminated; afterward it just looks like a giant fast food bag...
We're going to keep practicing until we can actually paint something that looks half decent. Then it'll be worth getting a tripod and everything! Woo!
For now, here’s a video of that it all looks like. (Sorry it’s kind of long; iMovie wouldn’t let me increase the speed)
The process is fairly simple:
• Take a sheet of paper (brown or coloured works best) and put it up against a light source.
• Then procure a grease/oil substance (we used a mineral spirit) and apply it to the surface... the lipids will soak into the paper and make it translucent, so the light sources is revealed.
• The effect only looks awesome whilst the paper remains illuminated; afterward it just looks like a giant fast food bag...
We're going to keep practicing until we can actually paint something that looks half decent. Then it'll be worth getting a tripod and everything! Woo!
For now, here’s a video of that it all looks like. (Sorry it’s kind of long; iMovie wouldn’t let me increase the speed)
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