Ultra-violet transparency

Got my hands on some fluorescent ink. Looks white under normal light, almost invisible. Fantastic stuff!
Heres another tiny video showing the UV ink printed onto plastic...

Have been thinking about the idea of playing with layers of transparent materials, whilst still using images inspired by brutalist architecture, and prints that change with the lighting.

Would love to create some kind of installation using this idea...

Special Effects Screen Printing??

In using lighting within my show to change the appearance of printed surfaces,  I'm having dilemmas about what inks to print with!

There seems to be very little in the way of inks that will both adhere to plastic/glass surfaces and come in a range of fluorescent, glow in the dark, and reflective colours.

So I will probably need to use a pigment/paint that can be mixed with a medium specifically designed for printing onto non-porous surfaces.

Paints/pigments:

Firstly, glow in the dark pigments. I have bought some glow in the dark pigment powder from Kilabitzzz. Glows very brightly, even glows very brightly in the pot when mixed with System3 Acrylic printing medium....it just doesn't glow when printed!  I don't know if this is because the particles don't print through the screen easily, or whether it only glows when its in bulk. I suspect the latter.



Fluorescent (ultra-violet) inks. by Glowtech, which I could mix with a medium. I do wonder if, like above, they will still glow when mixed and printed?  I heard from some friends that make scenery that Flints stock the best UV paints...very pricey though...and still need to be diluted with a medium. Screen Colour Systems in south-west London stock a fluorescent white. Maybe I will try this...but will it print onto plastics/glass?


Reflective paints could add another really interesting idea, though are very expensive. I wonder how easy they are to print with given that they contain tiny glass beads. And how reflective they will be once mixed into a printing medium.


Printing mediums for printing onto plastic & mirrors.

I have considered using a two-pack option...but lack of colour choice.

I emailed Steve Wood screen printing supplies...the website is very useful, has a huge range of inks. Was suggested that I try Permaprint Premium Clear....let's see how this goes!

Grid lighting

Thought I would try out the lighting on some other prints which use the blue and red grid idea. 

Not particularly successful...

Print&light stills

Using  a combination of Brutalist and Constructavist ideas, I created images for screenprinting in order to play with the way colours interact with each other and with coloured lighting.

The colour palette was kept predominantly to the 3 primary colours, I used simple block shapes to really keep the emphasis on the colour.

I then got the coloured lights onto it!

This is one example of the same print, under 5 different coloured lights:

 


Notice the difference between the 1st and 3rd images..the section of the print which is yellow disappears in image 1, yet in image 3 shows as almost black.
(also the appearance of blue under red light looks black too)
I think this yellow may feature quite heavily in my work from here on...

Painting & Lighting

Bought some coloured strobe lights!

Had great fun playing with the lights and drawings and paintings. The video is an example of a quick acrylic painting in process colours (cyan, magenta, yellow) to test the effect of different coloured lights on different colours.

Love how yellow appears totally black under red lighting!