Airbrush With Glow in the Dark Paint

Airbrushing with glow-in-the-dark paint can be tricky, but very fun and exciting if you do it right. Airbrushing is a wonderful art that requires a graceful hand and a great technique to get a good final result. Hours of practice go into just learning the art of mastering brush strokes. It is very hard to get the hang of using the trigger and keeping the brush at the proper distance from the article to be painted. If you ever watch a talented airbrush artist, you will be amazed at what they can create.

Steps

  1. Do not mix too much powder to paint. Test your paint on a piece of paper first, or else it won't turn out right.
  2. Use a gravity feed Airbrush. The siphon type has a hard time pulling the paint powder mix.
  3. Spray in a dark room with a black light. This will allow you to see the glow activated so you know what it will look like while glowing
  4. Light thin coats and color your item light to dark.
  5. For larger areas, use a small detail spray gun.
  6. Clean your brush between each coat, otherwise the previous colour will come into the next colour that you are using.

Tips

  • This is the reason and the tricky part of airbrushing with glow in the dark powder, because it is grainy it tends to clog the brush more often than just using airbrush paint.
  • Glow times are 12 hours for the green, 10 for the teal, 4 for purple yellow, orange and blue. The red is half an hour and the white is around 10 minutes. As you can see there is quite a disparity in glow times of each of the powders.
  • The paint and powder go through a very narrow needle valve. So it is key to get the fine mesh powder to mix with your paint.
  • You will also get varying degrees of glow time from your glow paint depending on the size of the particles. The smaller the size, the less the glow time.
  • Make sure when mixing your medium and powder you use a quality medium preferably a Superbrite Clear non UV retardant. DO NOT add water as this makes the mix too liquid and will not dry on contact, causing dripping.
  • The powders also come in different mesh or grain sizes. For airbrushing, use the finest mesh glow in the dark powder available. See the chart below:
    • Smallest size 5-10 micron
    • Medium size 12-18 micron
    • Large size 55-65 micron
  • Glow in the dark powders come in 8 different colors. Red, White, Blue, Teal, Violet, Green, Yellow, and Orange. The yellow and orange are a yellow-green that dyes are added to, to make them glow yellow or orange. The rest are their true colors. They can have many different daytime colors. The red, purple, blue, are white in the day light. The green and teal are and off white with a slight yellow green tint. The orange and yellow have like colors in the daytime. The white has a daytime color of white . These colors can differ from suppliers to supplier and the colors listed are those of Glonation.com.

Warnings

  • If using oil-based paint, use in a well-ventilated area.
  • Use UV eye protection, many polycarbonate safety goggles block UV.

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