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basic stencilling
 Hey, this is Drew and
I'm here to teach you guys about the fun world of stencilling. Fob clothing is just
getting into this art mistaken widely as graffiti. We're focusing on the basics here
so that you can get started in your garage or whatever right away. Eventually,
Brandon and I will try some Warhol style art on large canvas but thats quite a bit of $ to
order acryllic inks and stuff so simple and cheap is the theme. Let's go.
Materials- Krylon Spraypaint $3 (must be 18 to buy) - Cardstock 50 pack $12 - "Biggie" Sketch Paper 14 x 17", 125 cnt. $18 - Xacto Knife, Standard $4 - Painter Plastic Roll $10-$50 Of course, you could use something else to block out the floor instead of painter plastic, but it's very convenient and you can just throw it away afterwards. Get Your Art You can pull some ready made stencills off the web (lame), buy some (lamer), or make one design yourself (acceptable). I took a picture of myself wearing snowboarding goggles, desaturated it, increased the contrast, put a box around it, enlarged, and the finishing touch was a big X where my mouth should be. Don't you love censorship too?  IMPORTANT! Notice that if i were to cut all the black out (including the entire square around) I wouldn't have a design at all. After I cut out the border, the whole thing would just fall out. You MUST compensate for this. As you cut, lookout for "islands" and make sure they dont interfere with key parts of the design! Of course, you must sacrifice some details to achieve something that preserves as many as possible, but doesnt make the art look buchered. For example, there was no way I could save the reflection effects on my goggles. Print It Use Inkjet, laser, whatever... just print it on standard paper. If you prefer transparencies you can use those. They wont help too much more and they're probably harder to cut. You can also trace on carbon paper then just cut it out directly on the card stock. Whatever you prefer or have at the moment. Cutting Tape the printed out design onto the cardstock. Use the Xacto Knife to cut out all the black (you could alternatively invert the colors using photoshop then cutout the white instead) in your picture WHILE it is aligned above the cardstock. This will ALSO cut the cardstock or get it punctured enough so that you basically have the design on there and just have to skim over it to make it clean. Punch out the cut-out parts on the cardstock so that your design is everwhere the cardstock isn't. (did that make sense?) Align Put the design down on the sketch paper aligned how you'd like and then block out everthing around it using other sheets of sketchpaper with a huge piece of painters plastic below everything so that paint doesn't wander elsewhere. Remember, spraypaint can travel quite a distance before settling down on a surface so you need lots of plastic or other sort of cover. 
SprayingKeep your hand steady and sway horizontally back and forth on the design about 2 feet away. First do a VERY light coat to get everything. Wait about 20 seconds, then do a few medium runs first horizontally then vertically. If you spray too little, your design details won't come out, if you spray too much, you'll get a blurred image and waste paint. 
DesignSince spraypainting is the poorman's printmaking, I decided to give it a sort of propaganda-ish look by tiling the design 4 times vertically then putting it on a cabinet. If you also put a logo at the bottom, or underspray the bottom layer (everywhere there ISN'T black) in another color, like red, it would have even more detail. When hung up, this set of 2 papers to make a 4 tile design LOOKS much like a real poster. Legitimacy, legitimacy. You'll look at it everyday and love it. - Drew 1/4/05 |
