Custom Pigment Paintings

I have been mixing custom colours for screenprinting for a long time now, about 15 years or so, now I am starting to do the same thing with my paintings.

I was thinking recently that there are not a lot of different pigments out there. There has always been a fascination with me and black lights and ultraviolet inks, and I have seen some artists using florescent pigments in pretty basic ways. I have not seen much of intermixing florescent (dayglo) pigments, nor have I seen really any paintings done strictly using dayglo pigments.

As well , I have thought about the use of glow in the dark (GID) powder. I'm not sure if any of you know this but quite a few of my paintings have GID somewhere in them. I have been adding it to my paintings for years now, just not informing many people about it. I figured I would let the new owners find out on their own.

So in the end I came to the conclusion that maybe I could intermix raw florescent pigment with GID powder and mix that with an acrylic vehicle to suspend the particles in. Now what would happen if you changed the amounts of each ... you would get some tints which would glow in the dark at different brightnesses , you might also get different tints of florescent colours as well. And so I thought what would happen if you displayed the paintings under a black light? Well what you get are some seriously vibrant colours and when you shut the lights off, the whole painting is still visible but in the eerie muted greenish glow of the GID, it also fades the longer the lights are off, creating something truly remarkable.

Imagine if you will viewing a painting with the lights on AND with the lights off! One painting, or two?

I have finished four paintings in this new style/pigment.

One was hanging at House of Rts in Squamish B.C. which sold to an exciting collector.

Another two are hanging in Whistler at Chili Thom Gallery and Fitz Pub.

In Vancouver you can view two of them at Juju Salon on Davie street, tell Steve that Pepe sent you.