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Arwa
Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36
As with all my phosphorescent artwork, Arwa is two pieces of art- one by day, another by night. 
The daylight piece is inspired by the beauty of the light spectrum: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet- “ROYGBIV.” This vertical rainbow begins and ends with sparkling violet.
The glow-in-the-dark composition is made a mix of a few commercial glow pigments, which glow for a few hours, but primarily my own recipe super-bright, glow all night pigments that shed light slowly and at different speeds for each color. The piece changes over the course of the night, the green starts out brightest, then the aqua takes over, and the blue eventually dominates. 
If you want to see the full glory of the phosphorescent pigments, expose the painting to sunlight or other UV light source. It will glow nicely, however, absorbing just ordinary room light, but the colors are more vivid with UV. 
The photo makes it difficult to see the texture and the stunning light catching qualities of the various materials. The work features varied textures, from matt to enamel, along with glitter, iridescent, and metallic paints. (I have a theory that we are visually drawn to things that sparkle because our ancestors didn’t have faucets; they had to be alert for the sparkle of life-giving water wherever they roamed.) My brain likes shiny things, so I risk being cast into the bin with the “kitsch” classics, like velvet Elvis, and I made this thing glitter and glow.
Arwa
Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36
As with all my phosphorescent artwork, Arwa is two pieces of art- one by day, another by night. 
The daylight piece is inspired by the beauty of the light spectrum: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet- “ROYGBIV.” This vertical rainbow begins and ends with sparkling violet.
The glow-in-the-dark composition is made a mix of a few commercial glow pigments, which glow for a few hours, but primarily my own recipe super-bright, glow all night pigments that shed light slowly and at different speeds for each color. The piece changes over the course of the night, the green starts out brightest, then the aqua takes over, and the blue eventually dominates. 
If you want to see the full glory of the phosphorescent pigments, expose the painting to sunlight or other UV light source. It will glow nicely, however, absorbing just ordinary room light, but the colors are more vivid with UV. 
The photo makes it difficult to see the texture and the stunning light catching qualities of the various materials. The work features varied textures, from matt to enamel, along with glitter, iridescent, and metallic paints. (I have a theory that we are visually drawn to things that sparkle because our ancestors didn’t have faucets; they had to be alert for the sparkle of life-giving water wherever they roamed.) My brain likes shiny things, so I risk being cast into the bin with the “kitsch” classics, like velvet Elvis, and I made this thing glitter and glow.
Arwa
Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36
As with all my phosphorescent artwork, Arwa is two pieces of art- one by day, another by night. 
The daylight piece is inspired by the beauty of the light spectrum: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet- “ROYGBIV.” This vertical rainbow begins and ends with sparkling violet.
The glow-in-the-dark composition is made a mix of a few commercial glow pigments, which glow for a few hours, but primarily my own recipe super-bright, glow all night pigments that shed light slowly and at different speeds for each color. The piece changes over the course of the night, the green starts out brightest, then the aqua takes over, and the blue eventually dominates. 
If you want to see the full glory of the phosphorescent pigments, expose the painting to sunlight or other UV light source. It will glow nicely, however, absorbing just ordinary room light, but the colors are more vivid with UV. 
The photo makes it difficult to see the texture and the stunning light catching qualities of the various materials. The work features varied textures, from matt to enamel, along with glitter, iridescent, and metallic paints. (I have a theory that we are visually drawn to things that sparkle because our ancestors didn’t have faucets; they had to be alert for the sparkle of life-giving water wherever they roamed.) My brain likes shiny things, so I risk being cast into the bin with the “kitsch” classics, like velvet Elvis, and I made this thing glitter and glow.
Arwa
Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36
As with all my phosphorescent artwork, Arwa is two pieces of art- one by day, another by night. 
The daylight piece is inspired by the beauty of the light spectrum: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet- “ROYGBIV.” This vertical rainbow begins and ends with sparkling violet.
The glow-in-the-dark composition is made a mix of a few commercial glow pigments, which glow for a few hours, but primarily my own recipe super-bright, glow all night pigments that shed light slowly and at different speeds for each color. The piece changes over the course of the night, the green starts out brightest, then the aqua takes over, and the blue eventually dominates. 
If you want to see the full glory of the phosphorescent pigments, expose the painting to sunlight or other UV light source. It will glow nicely, however, absorbing just ordinary room light, but the colors are more vivid with UV. 
The photo makes it difficult to see the texture and the stunning light catching qualities of the various materials. The work features varied textures, from matt to enamel, along with glitter, iridescent, and metallic paints. (I have a theory that we are visually drawn to things that sparkle because our ancestors didn’t have faucets; they had to be alert for the sparkle of life-giving water wherever they roamed.) My brain likes shiny things, so I risk being cast into the bin with the “kitsch” classics, like velvet Elvis, and I made this thing glitter and glow.
Arwa
Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36
As with all my phosphorescent artwork, Arwa is two pieces of art- one by day, another by night. 
The daylight piece is inspired by the beauty of the light spectrum: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet- “ROYGBIV.” This vertical rainbow begins and ends with sparkling violet.
The glow-in-the-dark composition is made a mix of a few commercial glow pigments, which glow for a few hours, but primarily my own recipe super-bright, glow all night pigments that shed light slowly and at different speeds for each color. The piece changes over the course of the night, the green starts out brightest, then the aqua takes over, and the blue eventually dominates. 
If you want to see the full glory of the phosphorescent pigments, expose the painting to sunlight or other UV light source. It will glow nicely, however, absorbing just ordinary room light, but the colors are more vivid with UV. 
The photo makes it difficult to see the texture and the stunning light catching qualities of the various materials. The work features varied textures, from matt to enamel, along with glitter, iridescent, and metallic paints. (I have a theory that we are visually drawn to things that sparkle because our ancestors didn’t have faucets; they had to be alert for the sparkle of life-giving water wherever they roamed.) My brain likes shiny things, so I risk being cast into the bin with the “kitsch” classics, like velvet Elvis, and I made this thing glitter and glow.

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Arwa Phosphorescent Painting

Michele Burns

United States

Painting, Acrylic on Canvas

Size: 24 W x 36 H x 0.8 D in

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Arwa Acrylic on canvas 24 x 36 As with all my phosphorescent artwork, Arwa is two pieces of art- one by day, another by night. The daylight piece is inspired by the beauty of the light spectrum: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet- “ROYGBIV.” This vertical rainbow begins and ends with ...

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The driving force of my art is curiosity. Each piece begins with the question “What if?” What if I use these colors, textures, materials, techniques, or objects together? Each work is a surprise package I get to slowly open. I study art, and in my head I divide the field between decorative art that people want in their homes, which is great, and “arty” art that is innovative, original, and sometimes gallery-worthy. I often fail but generally aim for the elusive territory between the two- attempting to create things pleasing to the eye that people might want to live with, while pushing out boundaries for both everyday and more sophisticated art lovers. A unique recurring feature of most of my work is the inclusion of photoluminescent strontium aluminate doped with rare earths. I make the pigments myself for maximum luminance. The works are thereby two compositions, one by day and a second, rather magical composition that appears at night. I employ super-bright child-safe minerals that shed light for 10 to 20 hours after exposure to any visible light, and that continue to be “re-excitable” for decades. I do not have a single style because my relentless curiosity leads me in many directions as I constantly explore new materials, tools, techniques, and “What if?” questions.

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