How Many People Paint Using Flouresent Paints Within The Artwork? How Do You Feel About It?

Not sure how many use black light at home. Though I would use it to add hidden pictures or messages if I used it. People use black light tattoo's for skin and eyes. But if it something special you should mention it in the description.


----Mike Savad

No, I don't paint with fluorescent paint, while it can look cool it is not archival, the colors will fade quite fast, and honestly it just doesn't interest me, doesn't really fit the subjects I like to paint.

I love fluorescent paintings, like mushrooms and flying pirate ships. Just saying.

Mushrooms mmmmm,taste good! Flourescent paints…pass!

No fluorescent paint for me. I have quite a bit of paint, but I don't care about that kind.

I don't use it myself, for the same reasons David King has stated.

I have infrequently used either fluorescent acrylics or fluorescent oil pastels. When such a piece is photographed to place here on Fine art America, it really doesn't matter as far as prints go that the pigments used on it are fugitive, as the camera only captures what it is capable of capturing and any prints are just like any other print printed here. If I do state in the description that something was done with fluorescent pigments, I put a disclaimer that any prints are not as bright as fluorescents, so buyers don't think the print is some kind of special ink. Same is true with glow in the dark paints.

As a related side note, it may seem odd to somebody who has not tried it, but when you take a strong UV light and look at some art on a white background, that the paper or white canvas is often UV reactive and glows as almost the same effect as using real fluorescent pigments...try it! Works for me even on Fine art America prints...with no fugitive pigments being used. Even some woods glow like this.

It would be advised to tell buyers if fluorescent pigments were used on an original, as it can be both a selling point and as a caution for them to display it carefully. A trick that I have done to help prevent fading is first use regular pigment paint as a base and paint it as bright as possible in the areas you want highlighted, and then put a thin glaze of fluorescent over the top...that way the brightly painted archival underpainting remains after any fugitive piment fades away. I have not tried UV conservation glass...but that may also help with fading.

I did the following oil pastel using some oil pastels that are fluorescent back in 2005 and it still looks as good today as it did when I did it. It was mostly displayed in a room without a window. I did it mostly for the viewing of it in regular light and was not concerned about how it looks under a black light...I just wanted the most extreme of contrasts between black blacks and the most intense of colors. I personally like it and don't find it tacky at all...one of my most cherished pieces.

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/where-the-bus-comes-from-oil-pastel-bruce-bodden.html?newartwork=true

I used once for this Halloween Cat Painting, for a special request, was a custom order. The light teal-white colors are fluorescent, so the moon, the ghost, the stars, the spider web, eyes of the pumpkin, the cobblestones etc are glooming.
He loved the result and it was an interesting experience , my kids were like woooow wauuuw when it was ready :)

David King is on target on this one.