Geist! Page 76
This page was fun. It went something like this:
Landon: Rarr! Serious!!
Kate: La la la…
Landon: Serious! Concerned!
Kate: Heyyyyy, it’s you…Ooh, squiggles!
I love drawing crazy Kate.
This page was fun. It went something like this:
Landon: Rarr! Serious!!
Kate: La la la…
Landon: Serious! Concerned!
Kate: Heyyyyy, it’s you…Ooh, squiggles!
I love drawing crazy Kate.
Hey, is it just me, or is Nat trying to be nonchalant?
Raise your hands, who else wants to see Crazy Kate Vision? I’m more of a scratchboarder, but I’ve got a black light and some phosphor paints if that helps.
Nat LOVES nonchalant. I’m pretty sure he’d marry it if it were legal to marry attitudes.
We saw a little Crazy Kate Vision back on page 68 (http://www.geistcomic.com/archives/298) and I think I can safely say we’ll see more in the future, but I’d love to see a black light/phosphor paint take!
Huhhh, got a frame of reference now. I’ve never tried to layer phosphor onto a scratch board, but it could be a cool experiment. It’s at least worth a shot. I’ve been meaning to do more work with using acrylics on the scratchboard to create color without layering colored clays.
This could get interesting.
A bit on topic about art, just a random story to pop up in my head.
Phosphor paints are kind of an interesting, you can buy premixed paints or powder ones you mix yourself, but the self mix seems to work best in epoxy or acrylic if you get unpigmented powder. There was an older woman who lived near me way way long ago that had a very interesting style of painting landscapes, mainly of the moon over the sea or the planets on a starry background. What made them so cool was how if you directed light at them at different angles, they’d actually light up differently and seem to glow. For a long time she kept it a secret on how she did it, and then RA consumed her joints and she decided to reveal a few secrets to one of the high school art teachers she was friendly with.
The basic technique was she painted on glass, her paints were mixed with different types of pigment, phosphor, and amazingly mercury to create the glow effect. She would paint a base color and some shadows first, then add in the mercury and phosphor layers over and over until she got the shadows and “glow” she was looking for. After that, she sealed it with a bit of epoxy, then placed another pane of glass over it, sealed the edges of the glass panes with more epoxy, then created a custom frame.
Her paintings would often take one month to create, and it wasn’t unusual for her to work on ten at a time. I was always amazed at how she was able to come up with that idea and the time it must have taken to perfect it.
That sounds seriously awesome!
I’m kind of scared of Crazy Kate. Who knows what she could so with that hand and eye.