There are two exciting new light painting shops that you should know about especially with Christmas time fast approaching. The first is Herramientas Light Painting, this is the first international light painting hardware store with many essential light painting tool like LEDS, ElWire, and RGB lights.

The second is The Light Painting Shop created by Patrick Rochon. This shop features affordable light painting prints from Patrick and other international light painting artist. The Light Painting shop is also the exclusive place to buy Patricks Light Painting Blades.

Both shops are great places to get a gift for your brother, sister, friend, neighbor, or anyone else that might be a fan of light painting photography!

The greatest light painting exhibition on earth is about to happen!

LPWA (Light Painting World Alliance) is putting on the 2ND World Light Painting Exhibition showcasing some of the greatest light painting talent from around the globe! The show will include 100 works of art from 60 different artists spanning 13 different countries!

Not only will the event display photographs it will also showcase light painting animations and live performances! This will be an event to see with light painting artist Jozef Sedlak, John Hesketh, and Brian Hart revealing never before seen works!

The show is being held in Paris at Espace Pierre Cardin December 13th-15th! All are welcome to attend and the event is free!

Below is the full list of amazing artist that you will be able to see and MANY you will be able to meet in person! If you can get to Paris and you don’t go to this event you are crazy!

AUSTRALIA
Rob Turney

BELGIUM
Jan Teunis

CANADA
Anton Julmy
Luc Pigeault
Patrick Rochon

CZECH REPUBLIC
Kamil Varga

IRELAND
Gareth Nathan

ITALY
Carlotta Bertelli

FINLAND
Janne Parviainen

FRANCE
Stephane Babatasi
Quentin Bischoff
Tubault Blanchet
Jul’s Boo
Julien Breton
Vincent Bruno
Césium LightGraff
Cisco
Dawn
Diliz
Frederic Ferreira
Jadikan
Konte Rast
Gildas Malassinet
Chanette Manso
Romain Millet
Marko
MASS
Nico Luz
Rezine
SWIT LightGraff

GERMANY
Cenci Goepel and Jens Warnecke
Jürgen Gnass
Gustavo Mercerat
Timo Rehpenning
JanLeonardo Wöllert
Heinz-Jörg Wurzbacher

NETHERLAND
Hugo Baptista

RUSSIA
Sergey Churkin

SLOVAKIA
Jozef Sedlák

SPAIN
Erasmo Daaz

SWITZERLAND
Pablo Pietri

UK
Alan Jaras
James De Luna
Gabby Vicente
Rosetta Whitehead
Daniel Whitaker

USA
Todd Blaisdell
Dennis Calvert
Alexander DeForest
Steven Erra
Brian Matthew Hart
John Hesketh
David Hull
Jeremy Jackson
Eric Mellinger
Michael Newcomer
Darren Pearson
David Schlaich
Eric Staller
Jamie Wyman

Light Painting photographer Patrick Scherer has been creating some beautiful light painting sculptures recently using a drill, yes I said drill.

As with most things that are worthwhile the process is labor intensive. The most difficult part of creating one of the beauties is getting the combination of exposure time and light elements just right, it a lot of trial and error. Patrick says “We must not hesitate to make tests of all kinds even if the results are sometimes catastrophic.” I think that is great advice we can all apply to our work.

Patrick was kind enough to share a selection of his latest images and a couple of behind the scenes shots to hopefully inspire you to make your own, check them out below!

To see more of Patricks work check out his Facebook page HERE or Flickr page here.