Incandescent party blacklight bulbs dont work they just use a filter to only let UV light through the glass but they dont produce much in the UV wavelength in the first place. UV light is approximately 325-425 nM wavelengths. In most cases you will want ONLY FLUORESCENT blacklight sources.
I'm going to write up lighting first and then take a break for the evening. Lighting, Application and color test page photos. They come in little semi opaque bottles with no color label made of plastic that has a blue tinge in blacklight so you have to open them sometimes to tell what color they are. Their red is basically pink their blue is what most places call white and their white not a much lighter shade of blue. All of their colors are fairly weak except for the high end of the spectrum where almost all of these paints are ok, like yellow and green. Neon nights is budget invisble UV paint and it shows. Their red color is actually exceptional! It is very red and can make a good substitute for for wildfire red (which has supply shortage problems quite often) their green and yellow like almost all other brands is nearly indistinguishable. The matte version isn't completely clear, as you would expect its kind of frosty but its very reactive and can go on quite thin which means it's still invisible on most surfaces.īlacklightworld has a reasonable line that is also relatively cheap and can be had in 1oz. It is supposed to react white however it is actually one of the bluest blues Ive ever seen in a UV invisible paint and i use it as such. Tri-art has an acceptable line of visible blacklight paint at reasonable prices but the only real invisible one they have is UVfx medium Green, green pigment is incredibly expensive and even wildfire struggles to make their green purchasable ,though still more expensive than other colors It is the only brand i've tried that you can really distinguish green from yellow. Wilfires white is the only white that is white, all others are varying degrees of blue. The next closest competitors black can take 6 to 8 coats. A single somewhat thick coat is all it takes. (thus appearing black in a dark room I'll cover this more later.) Wildfire is best at this by far and away. No companies black actually turns black, What it does is block UV light. There are three colors they have that i will not use from any other brand Wildfire is the premium brand, Its entire line (including the visible paints) is truly the most reactive line of UV paints I've used but they are expensive and you cant get less than 4 oz. I will cover four brands here that I have experience with. Here is where I can give the biggest pointers aside from lighting tips. Quality and attributes between brands varies greatly. It mixes the way actual colored light mixes.įor some reason orange, as made by the manufacturers is a very very dull glow but mixing yellow and red is a bright orange. For example mixing any color with white will just get you white since white is already a combination of all colors. Invisibles can be intermixed to get other colors however its is an additive effect not subtractive like normal paint. Sometimes that is desired as you can make it so you can see the color but it doesnt really appear to glow. In either case mixing will dull the glow. The clear versions will be affected by the color it is mixed with but you still have some variation, for example you could have a solid red area that turns into. They are available in white, red, yellow, green, blue, purple, orange and black.Yes black!īlack makes it possible to create a change in the image under UVīoth white and clear versions of these paints can be tinted with normal paint colors, in this situation the white versions blacklight color is hardly affected by the color of the tint, so you can have a yellow spot that glows white or a light green spot that glows red in UV. No matter which paint it is plan on doing two to three coats when spraying to get solid coverage. (UV pigments dont thicken the paint much and are incredibly expensive, the thicker the paint the less vibrant it will be) , the higher the quality the thinnner they are to begin with. Or whatever you would use on another water based paint. Nearly all are water based acrylics or water based urethanes and can be thinned with just water Invisible blacklight paints are just either clear or white under normal lighting but react and show color under blacklight (UV). So, I don't have a ton to contribute to the forum as an airbrushing newbie but this one odd area I've got some experience with that might be useful to someone else here.
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