If you want your posters or murals to glow brightly don’t put them in a distant shady corner of the room! I use bright CFL room lights and the paint closest to the light source obviously glows the brightest. I work in an area that never gets natural daylight and yet it glows very brightly in the dark. In a basement bedroom sometimes a floor lamp directed at the ceiling is an easy solution. In those dim or dark areas it is best to get as much direct light on the stars as possible. If you have an area like a basement, home theatre, or room with little daylight you must use a bright light to compensate from the lack of daylight. Glow in the dark or phosphorescent paint is designed only for use in a dark room at night. The artwork does not fluoresce under UV light. I’ve even used bright LED’s which emit less UV but found they work using other colours in the spectrum. The only lights I’ve found that are not suitable for charging are dim incandescent bulbs. Nearly all rooms already have perfect lighting conditions for the stars to charge and glow well. Bright fluorescent lights (compact or tubes) work really well. There is no need to buy expensive UV tubes or novelty UV torches, which are usually fake. Using a room's natural daylight and a 10 minute 'top up' with a bright light at night is sufficient to give a bright 12 hour glow. 12 hours with sufficient charging with bright light. Stella Murals' stars and artwork glows for approx. The paint I use, how the art is charged and different lighting conditions all work together to make the art change and look different from night to night, and even at different times of the night. I’ve painted in the dark since 2011 and I love it!Īll my paints are exclusive to Stella Murals, almost every project I paint requires a different formula, these are many times brighter than glow in the dark vinyls, inks and craft paints. Painting glow in the dark art is working with an amazing mixture of moving changing light.

Stella glow artist