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Focus Description:

On the stage there is an easel, a table with a sketchbook - a box in which paints, brushes and several clean palettes.

The magician picks up several palettes and, showing them to the audience, offers to choose any. He holds the selected palette in his right hand, and passes the rest to the assistant, who places them on the table. The illusionist fixes the palette on the easel and takes another one from the table, with paints squeezed onto it; releases some more colors from the tubes. Then, taking 5-6 brushes in his hands, he goes to the easel and applies a stroke on the palette fixed on the easel .. The audience sees how a colored smear appeared there. The magician takes paint with another brush, but the audience notices that at this moment the palette on the easel begins to rotate, forming a continuous flickering circle (Fig. 168).

Focus Wonder Artist
Fig. 168

The performer, not at a loss, continues to paint a picture, applying paint to a rotating palette. So, changing brushes, he applies multi-colored strokes to the palette for 1-2 minutes. Then the palette stops, and the audience sees that a beautiful sketch has been written on it. The magician, having taken out the palette from the clamps of the easel, shows it to the audience.

Props:

An easel with a mechanism for rotating the palette.

A table with a set of oil paints and brushes for drawing; palette with paints squeezed on it.

5-6 large palettes prepared for focus.

Focus secret:

The secret lies in the preparation of the palettes. The artist paints several sketches on palettes in advance with oil paints. Only the colors should be bright, and the strokes should be large. When the sketches dry well, they are covered with a light layer of putty made on paste water. It is necessary to make a putty to match the color of the palettes, slightly painting on top of the wood texture. It's good to have palettes of different colors. Putty should cover the sketches and hold well, but at the same time, at the slightest pressure with a brush, bounce off the palette. This is the whole secret of focus.

Brushes are pre-painted in different colors. It is not paints that are squeezed out of the tubes, but lanolin with an adhesive. The magician dips the dyed and dried brushes in lanolin with glue and applies strokes on a rotating palette. In the place where the brush touches the palette, the primer bounces off, settling on the brush, and a spot forms there: a study emerging from under the primer. The illusionist, faster and faster, applies sharp strokes with different brushes and gradually removes all the primer.

The brushes are dyed with aniline in different colors, but after drying they should be elastic and not stain the sketch. It is necessary to ensure that the putty does not fly off to the side, but is held on the brush. Pretending that he is taking paint, the magician is actually removing the putty adhering to the brush.

The device for rotating palettes is very simple (Fig. 169, A; view from the audience). Figure 169, B shows a side view. 1 - mechanism with a clockwork spring. Inside the quadrilateral is a round disc made to match the palettes. On it are visible brackets-clamps 2, with the help of which the palette is fixed and held. On the side left of the easel is button 3; by pressing it, the magician activates the self-timer (as for photographs), which, starting to work, gives a shutter speed of 5 to 45 seconds, depending on the adjustment. After that, the mechanism is activated, and the disk begins to rotate. Adjust the disc rotation speed by setting the speed control. To stop the rotating easel, button 4 is fixed on the right, which activates the locking mechanism.

Focus Wonder Artist
Fig. 169

As you can see from the description, the secret of the trick is extremely simple, but performing it on stage requires great skill.

We recommend taking a different study each time, otherwise the audience may become suspicious and the trick will be exposed.

When showing a number, the illusionist must know the sketch well and apply brush strokes of the desired color, approximately in the right place.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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