I been trying to figure out this whole lighting thing.
Let's go back to one of my earliest post when I talked about neon lighting being incorporated in my opening. I decided that I was not going to buy the lights but instead I'm using the method with the colored papers.
Lucky for me I already own two lamp that are really useful because I can easily move the thing were the light bulb is... I don't know how to explain it but i'll attach a picture later on. I went on a short trip to my local supermarket to buy the cellophane paper, unfortunately there wasn't any available. I still had some hope so I continued to look for something that had a similar texture/transparency so that the light of the lamps could pass through it.
And that's how I found these plastic-like bags!
I didn't really knew how these bags would react with the light so I began playing with them. It was fairly easy to get result that I wanted, and I figured that the easiest way to work with them (since i'm doing this alone because of COVID-19) was to tape them to the lamp.
The first picture is how the light usually looks and the other three pictures show the light with the colored plastic in front of it. (And don't worry, the light bulb does not gets hot so the plastic won't melt)
I learned a few things while experimenting.
1- Some of the bags don't have are more transparent than other (blue and yellow) so the color is not as bright. To fix this I simply stacked a few of the sheets and that made the color brighter.
2- I can also put different colors on top of each other to make new colors. Blue on top of yellow make green.
Overall i'm really happy with the result and I definitely will be incorporating this element to the opening.
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