Artificial Dew Drops

Zanotti

Is there a preferred method to create artificial dewdrops for reflecting/refracting?

I thought I had read somewhere to mix glycerine with water to get a more viscous liquid.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?


Z

GOLDENORFE

unfortunatly not really, i did try last year but could not re create natural dew drops. spraying water based solutions seems to produce too large size drops which are never perfectly round.
can still get some decent refractions in them so well worth trying
phil

Lord Vetinari

As Phil comments I think it is just about impossible to try to get the look of naturally formed dewdrops artificially, but you can use just sprays of water or indeed solutions of glycerol or sucrose to play with refractions in drops.

You can also encourage natural dewdrop formation on grass by watering it well and then placing a bowl over it overnight.
eg below using sugar solution
Brian v.

Candid Arts

Lord Vetinari wrote:

As Phil comments I think it is just about impossible to try to get the look of naturally formed dewdrops artificially, but you can use just sprays of water or indeed solutions of glycerol or sucrose to play with refractions in drops.

You can also encourage natural dewdrop formation on grass by watering it well and then placing a bowl over it overnight.
eg below using sugar solution
Brian v.

Once again, freaking beautiful. You need to do a class in Portland...Seriously. I would attend. Amazing.