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There is an easel on the stage and next to it a table on which painting supplies are placed. Near the table there are several stretchers with primed canvases stretched on them. There is an empty framing frame right there.

The magician lifts one of the stretchers, secures it on the easel, then takes a palette and squeezes tubes of paint onto it. He approaches the easel with brushes and applies paint to the canvas with sharp strokes. Viewers see how an image quickly appears on the canvas, which becomes clearer and more distinct with each stroke. Two or three minutes pass and the painting is finished (Fig. 167).

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Fig. 167

The performer removes it from the easel and, inserting it into an empty framing frame, shows it to the audience.

Props:

Easel for painting.

Prepared canvases stretched on a stretcher (5-6 pieces).

Baguette frame for the picture.

Table with accessories for painting.

Focus secret:

The secret of the trick is to prepare the canvas stretched on a stretcher. The artist writes a sketch on it in oil paints in advance. After the paints have dried a little, a sheet of white silk floral paper is placed on top of the written sketch; The edges of the sheet are folded over the stretcher and glued with a light paste made from potato flour. From a distance, the image can be mistaken for a primed canvas. If you run a brush dipped in painting oil over the paper, the colors will begin to clearly appear through it.

Skillfully and quickly using different brushes, the magician gradually covers the entire paper with oil. Once oiled, it becomes transparent and completely invisible. An artistically executed sketch will appear in front of the audience, which they accept as just painted: after all, everyone clearly saw that with each brush stroke, a spot of one color or another appeared on the stretcher.

The paper must be ironed very carefully before gluing it to the stretcher so that there are no wrinkles. You can lightly spray it with water from a spray bottle: as it dries, it will stretch tightly. Having prepared the canvas in this way, carefully check whether the sketch is visible. When showing the number, applying strokes with a brush dipped in oil, make sure that there is no unread area left somewhere. When all the paper is sufficiently wet, the illusionist, using a dry brush, can gradually remove the oiled paper from the sketch. This must be done completely unnoticeably, as if applying strokes with a brush. Brushes must be pre-painted in different colors and thoroughly dried. On the palette, release the paint from the tubes in advance and dry them. The magician only pretends to squeeze paint onto the palette before working.

You can use Vaseline instead of oil. Spectators will see "paint" being squeezed out of tubes, when in reality the performer is releasing Vaseline into pre-made depressions in the dried paint. The magician takes petroleum jelly or oil from the palette with a brush and applies it to the desired location with a colored brush. Before inserting the newly “painted” picture into the framing frame, you must carefully remove any remaining paper from the sketch.

Another method of execution is also possible: the oiled paper is not removed, since, having stuck to the canvas, it becomes invisible. The sketch will be clearly visible to the audience; however, the colors in this case will turn out a little “muted”. When showing a sketch to the public, you can allow someone to touch the painting - to make sure that the paints are still fresh.

Author: Vadimov A.A.

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