Pictures with lights....
#1
Greetings all,
At a recent art and craft show a vendor had pictures with small lights somehow mounted behind them. It made the picture look as though lights were on in a house, lights on a special Christmas tree out in the woods, a star shining, real Northern Lights.....has anyone seen these or know how to make them.....the vendor was not available for questions.....
Thanks for your info! :-D :-D
At a recent art and craft show a vendor had pictures with small lights somehow mounted behind them. It made the picture look as though lights were on in a house, lights on a special Christmas tree out in the woods, a star shining, real Northern Lights.....has anyone seen these or know how to make them.....the vendor was not available for questions.....
Thanks for your info! :-D :-D
#2
you drill holes in the pictures where you want the lights and poke them through from the back. We used a clear flexible caulking to hold them in place. Make sure you get it around the plastic, not around the inside of the socket. We put burnt out bulbs in the areas of the string that did not show. staple the wires down to keep them in place too. Make sure you buy the strings of lights that stay on when one bulb goes out. You may want to make a shadow box for these, so that the lights in the back don't show on the sides of the paintings. The little LED lights would work well or the smallest twinkie type too... sometimes it is fun to use two strings so that some twinkle and some don't. :D:D:D
#3
Another way is to drill holes, cover them on the back with colored cellophane. then you can put a small sting of lights behind and the lights will shine through too. you build a shadow box for this way also.
#4
Amma, thanks so much....the picture looked so real ...one could almost wonder.....what was going on inside the little house.....and the bear was sitting in the snow at the wonder of the Christmas tree out there in the middle of the woods....amazing....thanks again!! :D :D
#5
Some of the aspects of the pictures could be cut around, like a person sitting in a window, leave the person, cut around him, leave the curtains if there are any, put gold cellophane behind that so it looks like the house lights are on behind him... You could fix a light to spotlight on the bear...add some opalescent glittery paint to the snow around him....
There are so many different ways of doing these type of pictures :D:D:D
There are so many different ways of doing these type of pictures :D:D:D
#6
Originally Posted by Image00
Greetings all,
At a recent art and craft show a vendor had pictures with small lights somehow mounted behind them. It made the picture look as though lights were on in a house, lights on a special Christmas tree out in the woods, a star shining, real Northern Lights.....has anyone seen these or know how to make them.....the vendor was not available for questions.....
Thanks for your info! :-D :-D
At a recent art and craft show a vendor had pictures with small lights somehow mounted behind them. It made the picture look as though lights were on in a house, lights on a special Christmas tree out in the woods, a star shining, real Northern Lights.....has anyone seen these or know how to make them.....the vendor was not available for questions.....
Thanks for your info! :-D :-D
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