Glow in the Dark Painting
Whether you're looking to add a touch of magic to your living space or want to create a unique piece of art, glow-in-the-dark paintings offer a creative opportunity like no other. There are many different ways of making your own glow-in-the-dark painting. You can mix glow powders in a transparent paint medium or try some of our acrylic glow paints.
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Whether you're looking to add a touch of magic to your living space or want to create a unique piece of art, glow-in-the-dark paintings offer a creative opportunity like no other. There are many different ways of making your own glow-in-the-dark painting. You can mix glow powders in a transparent paint medium or try some of our acrylic glow paints.
Learn all about Glow in the Dark Painting techniques
Be inspired by videos, images, and tips from real people who are familiar with the ins and outs of creating glow-in-the-dark paintings
Why Add Glow to Your Painting?
Artists incorporate glow-in-the-dark paints and pigments into their paintings to add an element of surprise, mystery, and visual interest. Our glow paints are designed so that they go on nearly transparent for the first few coats. This allows them to be layered over regular paints to create hidden glowing details in paintings of all sorts! Once charged with sunlight or UV light, reveal the magic you create in a dark room.
Art by: @ashyfinchart
DIY Project: Glow Painting
Video by: Jennsartofficial
Step-By-Step Instructions
Step 1: Gather your supplies. You will need to paint your canvas with an image of your choice or find a pre-existing one to embellish. Once you have your base image, it's time to break out the glow paint!
**Tip: The neutral glow paints will go on nearly invisible for the first two or three coats. The fluorescent colors shouldn’t be noticeable over a colored background in one or two coats but they may tint a white/light colored background.
Step 2: Apply glow paint. Once the base painting is finished and dry, find a dark (but not pitch black) space to apply the glow paint. Using a UV flashlight, you'll want to charge your paint for 3 to 5 seconds before starting. Once charged, you'll be able to easily see the paint as it is applied over the existing image.
**Tip: The lighter the background, the brighter the glow. Since most of the glow you see is actually reflected light, the lighter the background color, the brighter the glow will appear.
Step 3: Trace your existing painting with your glow colors of choice. You can apply the paint as you would any other paint, but we recommend that you apply thin coats for the best results.
Step 4: Let it dry.
Now you've got a glowing work of art that can be recharged thousands of times! We do recommend charging your painting with sunlight or a UV light to get the full effect.
Check out our GUIDE for more glow painting tips and tricks!
Art by: @mgalvan.art
What People Are Saying
I wanted to use this paint to clear coat rhinestones for a project I was working on. It worked wonderfully and the true color helped to make an amazing design.
- Maryjo S.
I bought one of each colour and have not been disappointed!!!
- Helen
Glow In The Dark Paint
Commonly Used To Create With Glow Paint
Clear Casting and Coating Epoxy Resin
Short Handle Brush Set
9 LED UV Flashlight
Casting & Coating Epoxy Resin
Make your projects stand out! Coat your glow artwork with Art 'N Glow Epoxy Resin for a shiny glossy finish that will take your glow painting to the next level.
Artists and creators from all over the world use our products for their most important projects. After seeing many of our customers use our products in resin projects we decided to remove the guesswork by creating our own epoxy blend that was designed specifically to work with all of our pigments!
Download instructions for our epoxy resin here. The MSDS for our clear casting and coating epoxy resin is available here.
Glow Powder
Our strontium aluminate glow powders can be easily charged repeatedly by exposing them to UV or sunlight and used for all kinds of projects. Use these glow in the dark pigments in resin, rubber, and plastic castings, fishing lures, jewelry, wax, paint and more!
9 LED UV Flashlight
Our 9 LED ultraviolet flashlight will get you glowing in no time. From paintings to powders to glass, this light has you covered.
Includes three AAA batteries
395nm wavelength is ideal for charging all of our glow in the dark products in seconds
Aluminum construction with an on/off tail switch
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