Luminaries

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Luminaries

By punchi
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:48 am #27391
So I got some brown paper bags and stared making some luminaries, but I wish they were brighter. You can't really see the stencils too well. Any one have any tips? Has anyone tried it with a different color bag? It seems like they need more contrast somehow.
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By nosferatu
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:58 am #27395
Black bags work best

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By nosferatu
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:59 am #27397
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By nosferatu
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:01 am #27398
Compare them with the first one that I did of Leatherface
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The black ones highlight the pattern better by a factor of 10

By GUS
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:01 am #27399
what happens when you staple fresh, flat tin foil on the 3 closed sides? ..any better Nos?, you have shares in Alcan don't you??
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By nosferatu
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:03 am #27400
Its hard enough glueing the tracing paper inside them. Tin foil would probably blind me
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By punchi
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:10 am #27402
What color are the black bags on the inside? And are you gluing paper on the back of the stencils for a color or something?
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By nosferatu
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:13 am #27404
Bags are white on the inside and black on the outside. Recycled.
Ordinary tracing paper is then glued behind the stencil to help diffuse the light

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By punchi
  Mon Sep 28, 2009 11:34 am #27411
Thanks Nos! This helps me a lot!
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By blueikaos
  Fri Oct 02, 2009 7:58 am #27965
I tried these last night on brown lunch bags.
I had to downsize a few of the patterns due to size.

I just taped the pattern on the front and cut it out with an x-acto knife.

Like some of you had said, I guess the brown bag lets too much light out elsewhere other then the "holes" intended.

I painted them black last night and going to see how that fairs later on tonight when I can light them in a dark room.
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By blueikaos
  Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:09 am #27985
Yes, I put a piece of cardboard inside the bag, so as not to cut the back side.

Just used the exacto blade to carve.
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By SuperSonic
  Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:11 am #27987
Photo Copiers work best you can put the pattern in then shrink the size to what ever you need
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By blueikaos
  Fri Oct 02, 2009 10:12 am #27988
Some of them I didn't have to, they fit on the bag just perfectly.
(I bought the regular "lunch bags" from my local grocery store)

The others I tossed in my copy machine and found the setting to shrink to __%

I shrunk most of them to 70% and they fit, with plenty of room to still see detail.
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