The painting came about because of a few rounds of indoor mini golf. This particular indoor mini golf place is located in a near by mall. They have murals on their walls painted in glow in the dark paint. It’s really neat to see these murals glow while you golf.

After seeing how cool these glow in the dark murals looked, I was determine to get some glow in the dark paint for myself. Luckily, my local craft store had some!

Since I had bought multiple colors, I wanted to test them all out! So, I thought up a design where I could use them all. The black was added because I thought it would look great with the neon colored paint.

Have you ever tried glow in the dark paint? What is your favorite kind of paint?

Some fun facts:

• The painting currently hangs in my office

• All the colored squares in the painting do glow in the dark
  • Unfortunately, this is not possible with the digital version. So, if you buy any products with this design, they won’t glow.

   

• I’ve only see the colors in the painting glow once or twice

• The digital design is for sale on Zazzle, RedBubble, and Imagekind

Since art is subjective and Neon Squares may not be to your taste, as part of the Holiday Exchange on Zazzle, I’m going to introduce you to some other talented artist!  Don’t worry!  The following designs are ones that I really like and will have something to do with the topic of this blog post!
Please note:  All links in this post are affiliate links. Thanks in advance for your support of independent artist!

How pretty is this fish serving tray by Thunes!  I love the color!  It’s so pretty!  Plus living in Florida, I see a lot of beach theme decor in houses.  This would fit in perfectly!

I love shoes!  These sneakers by Unwrapped Visuals are great!  Not only are they stylish, but with their neutral color scheme, they would go with a lot of different outfits!

I am a big fan of music!  From elementary school through college, I learned to play several different instruments and played in a variety of bands.  How perfect would this binder be for bringing sheet music to rehearsal?  Not only is it cute, but could keep your music organized and prevent it from getting damaged!  Plus since you can personalize it, you would know at a glance that it was yours!

An example of my design neon stars used in a year book

The way the yearbook worked was the school had two cameras that the kids could use to take candids and pictures at events. One of the student’s mother was a professional photographer and did the student portraits. I took the group class pictures, some candids and some event pictures.

For time and consistency reasons, I would put the yearbook together. Each year, a different theme was selected. One year it was reaching for the stars. The neon star design was used on the corners of some of the pages. (Luckily, I got to keep the rights to the designs.)

Unfortunately, I don’t quite remember how the color scheme came about. Maybe the kids picked it? We did have meetings and they did give input, but I don’t remember since it was a few years ago. The green may have come from the fact that the school colors were purple and green.

Working with the kids and putting together the yearbook and was a very enjoyable experience! Was there an unexpected experience that inspired a design?

Did you know:

• One of the clubs that I use to work with has a Zazzle Store that students would contribute designs to.
• The neon stars design is available on Valerie’s Gallery at Zazzle, Red Bubble, Skreened

A huge thanks to Pink Owlz Studio for featuring my Christmas Ballet Pig Pin Button on their blog.

Here are some other star and neon art you might be interested in:

Fiesta Stripes iPhone 5/5s Case by pinkowlz	Fourth of July, with Fireworks, Stars and Stripes card by Teri Nelson Kuster	Fun Poop Star Baby Pacifier by DizzyDebbie
Rainbow Stars Fantasy Avery Binder by gothicbusiness	Happy Birthday Awesome Boy customize age and name card by Betsy Bush	starred mug aquarius by Jicha_names
TEE Future Star by teepossible	Niece Graduation Congratulation Stars card by Sandra Rose Designs	Red and White Stars Pattern. iPhone 5 Covers by Graphics_By_Metarla
Born to be a star romper by Astriddesign	starfish with sunglasses on the beach with American flag and bikini card by maria dryfhout	Gold Stars and Moons Circles Pattern iPhone 5C Cover by alleyshirts
Cute Smiling Stars Throw Pillow by Amethyst_Mouse	Lucky Stars card by ©totallypainted	Planet, stars and Sun in Galaxy Fantasy Art Room Sticker by OneBigSky
BlackLight Poster by djskagnetti	Sympathy – jewish card by Bruce Cohen	green star pattern case for iPhone 5C by thatcrazyredhead