I was thinking of creating a painting of sorts on a canvas and then backlighting it. But then I thought it would be neat to create a cube-like object and have lights in the middle. I started playing around with tissue paper and was hoping to do tissue paper painting, to try using a new medium. Using a small canvas, I created a sunset collage. I was hoping that the colors from the tissue paper would bleed on the canvas, but I accidentally bought the wrong type of tissue paper. So for the sake of the maquette, I glued the papers down. I cut a cactus out of construction paper and attached it to the backside of the canvas. I thought it would be neat to have an image on one side, and when the canvas is lit up, another image appears.
Going forward, I need to buy:
Bleeding tissue paper
Larger canvases
Paintbrush for water/glue
Exacto knife
Lights for the interior
I am planning to make a small version of the cube once I can get some more of these materials, and also am considering other ways to make an additional image appear when lighting up the cube. Also I need to figure out what the best type of lighting will be, whether I should use string lights or a light bulb style lighting. These things I can test once I have the cube built.