Now I know this would probably go better into the Arts and Crafts section, but there hasn't been a single post in there since June 26th and this is a bit urgent, so please forgive me!
As some of you know I'm taking a play to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August and I'm in charge of props. I got an email from the director asking for all kinds of elaborate and complicated things, most of which I can manage on my own but one I was thinking you guys might be able to advise me on.
Here is what he said to me:
So! I've had this mad idea about water pistols. My thinking is, if we fill them with a (completely washable) 'blood' substance and disguise them as guns, we can have people shooting each other with them and writing 'Aaargh!' and 'Nooo!' and such on each other in the blood. Now May, I know this is mad. Everyone has told me this is mad. But it would be SO cool!
And he goes on to say that if it doesn't work, we can do something else. But it would be good if it could work!
My thinking was to do with that invisible ink which becomes visible when you get it wet. We used to use them as children to write secret notes to each other. If we wrote the words "Aaaargh" and "Nooo" and so forth onto fabric and sprayed red-dyed water at them, they would show up, yes?
Issues:
- This will have to be done every day, so I need to be able to wash and reapply the words easily (shouldn't be an issue)
- I'm not sure those pens work on fabric without blurring too much to be legible
- Would a water pistol sufficiently saturate the ink for it to work?
So arty crafty type people, have you heard of anything that might do this? Any magical substance that would show up when sprayed with water/other substance that can look like blood?
I don't think trying to write in fake blood with a water pistol would work, due to lack of accuracy etc. But if you think it could, I'd love to know about that too! Thanks for any help