You will want to do at least four layers of paint to ensure a good dense coverage. Patience is a virtue! When spray painting anything you MUST use thin layers and wait patiently for each layer to dry before adding the next. Keep spraying from side to side until you have covered the glass with a single layer of paint completely. The reason for the raised surface is to try and minimise the amount of spray paint that manages to find its way onto the underside of the glass. This is good practice for using spray paint in general. The glass is placed on a raised surface above some newspaper and a thin layer of paint sprayed on in a series of wide sweeps that overlap the edges to get good even coverage. once again I must stress that the edges of picture frame glass are generally as sharp as a knife, so a sliding contact will cause a cut. The glass is washed thoroughly to get rid of any greasy fingerprints and dirt before painting. We start by removing the glass carefully from the picture frame. Choose a simple black frame with no decoration, since the aim is to have as little visual distraction as possible. I got the frame from a pound/dollar store. Nothing much, just an ordinary picture frame and a can of black spray paint. Here are the materials we will need for this project. As such, you tackle this project entirely at your own risk. This project carries a risk of cuts from sharp glass, noxious paint fumes, alienation of religious friends and the possibility of opening a portal through which demons might possess your very soul. ![]() Christians will probably not like it, since they'll assume it's the work of the devil, while practicing spiritualists or fortune tellers may use it as it was intended.Ĭontrary to what you might read on the Internet, a scrying mirror does not open a portal to hell. Some will see it as a slightly spooky Halloween-esque ornament for a shelf, others will value it as a very attractive and unusual ornament. Obviously, what you make of this project will depend on how you regard the area from which it cometh. (Think of the wicked witches magic mirror in Snow White.) This project is a modern equivalent of an obsidian mirror implemented using rear painted glass, that provides a very black and deep surface upon which to gaze. ![]() The obsidian mirror was simple and functional as it presented a perfectly black surface upon which to gaze. Crystal balls, pools of dark water and black obsidian mirrors to name a few. There were various artifacts used for scrying. I can well understand why this would have been even scarier in the dark ages, and why they may have been interpreted as spiritual visions or prophecies when a child innocently told it's parents about the images it was seeing.Īs with many mystical things from the past, they became a business for those who could see these images and those who couldn't - but saw the business potential! Fortune telling became a lucrative business and the artefacts and props that fortune tellers used became parlour collectibles for those who wanted to delve in the "dark arts" for the thrill it gave. It happens to me, and I'll admit that in the past it used to be a bit scary at times. Have you ever laid in a dark room and gradually seen random images like people or portals into other places? Not everyone has this experience and it may be linked to forms of autism where the dream world leaks into waking vision. Basically a black mirror used to focus (or defocus) the mind to perceive images often perceived as spiritual. Now here's a very odd but simple project that doesn't involve electronics at all, but has a very delicious element of darkness to it in more ways than one.
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