How To: Paint a Glow-in-the-Dark Sketch Wall

New improvements in special consumer paints have openned up all kinds of opportunities for  projects and home customization.

Chalkboard paint allowed Kate to create a whole new take on tablescapes:

And magnetic paint on the back of this bathroom door turned it into a helpful storage solution:

But, there’s a new kind on the special paint block, and it may be the best one yet: Phosphorescent paints that make anything they cover GLOW IN THE DARK!

PaulBo from Fangleelectronics used this amazing stuff to create an art wall, that’s eternally reusable…like a giant glow-in-the-dark Etch-a-Sketch. “We isolated a good amount of wall with painters tape, we just wanted it to be slightly taller than the kids. Then we put on 2 coats of white primer, 3 coats of the glow-in-the-dark paint and a couple of layers of varnish (so the kids didn’t immediately scrape off the latex based glow paint). After removing the painters tape, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the wall didn’t look much different.”

The wall can be activated with tiny LED flashlights, as in the top picture, OR with a big source of light, such as a camera flash, turning anything into a freeze frame shadow puppet!

Learn more and see the rest of the photos at FangleElectronics.