Our last assignment for this art class is to do a graffiti-style piece of art about “something you want to tell the world.” It’s due tomorrow. I am brainstorming. These are my ideas so far.
What do you think
I decided to go with the quote about magic being science we don’t understand yet, and I got a great idea in my head to do the giant painting and then paint over it with invisible ink that will fluoresce under a black light, so I could be extremely dramatic when I was presenting it and be like ~REVEEEAAAL~ and point a black light at it
So I have spent the last several hours testing various household substances to find things that will glow under black light. The internet said baking soda, but I didn’t have luck with that. I also read laundry detergent, but the only detergent we have is blue, so it wouldn’t be invisible. I thought maybe toothpaste, but that was also a no-go. Although it reacted with the acidic iron gall ink I had made much more noticeably than the straight baking soda did, which is interesting. I was looking for other things to test out and ended up staining my mother’s blender with spinach and rubbing alcohol that obviously wouldn’t be invisible, but I thought it would be cool to include some of the various inks I’d been making. Under black light it shows up red, though, that’s cool. I also painted the background with watercolour and then put salt on it so I could talk about that and why it does what it does.
I’ll only have a few hours to work on it tomorrow and it will have to be done and dry by then. The next thing I’m going to try is breaking open a fluorescent marker and seeing how far I can dilute it and still have it glow, and if I can find any, talcum powder.
The difference between mad science and regular science is a dedication to theatrics.
Damn, fluorescein is really easy to get out of highlighters apparently so I know what I’m going to be doing this afternoon :D
HALF BLOOD PRINCE WHOMST
I AM A GOD
Here’s the steps. Very simple. For the record I did not end up boiling it down to a solid A. because I needed it as a liquid anyway and B. because my puny USB-powered desk fan unceremoniously clipped to my piano keyboard is not a substitute for a fume hood and I didn’t fancy breathing in isopropanol vapour but you only really need to do that if your goal is to get pure fluorescein for the sake of having pure fluorescein.
If you didn’t see it on the other post, here is a picture of it lit from the side by my makeshift blacklight (microscope slide coloured with blue and purple markers used as a filter over a regular LED)
