stenciling!

more uni work here---

for the last 2 weeks in our contemporary imaging class we've been learning about STENCILS and at first i was like, oh great.... but then the teacher showed us books and he meant like grafitti stencils you often see on walls and stuff in the city! especially in melbourne down that street... that really arty one, whats it called sherry? brunswick street?

so anyways, here's a foto of some that i took when i was down that street a year or so back.

so thats the sort of idea of stencilling i guess.
so we need a quick design in class... a one layer stencil and this is what i had to show.

i'll just explain quickly how you do them. it seems pretty obvious... but to me it was kinda hard!!! you basically have ur design, then u grab a peice of that acetate clear plastic paper stuff and your stencil cutter thing (like a stanly knife) and cut the parts out where you want the spray paint to go. then you put the plastic peice of paper down and spray on top of that, lift it up, and there's your results!!!

after this class, we had another, but we had to do a multi-layer design. i did alex playing a guitar. this is what it looked like in the end.


i obviously didn't let the spray paint dry for long enough!!! but im going to buy some spray paint and do some more at home and then hopefully, im gonna do one in town somewhere!! like on a bus shelter or something, hehehe. so im buying spray paint today, BUT EVERYONE MUST NOTE, it has to be matte spray paint, cos gloss paint drips :)

anyway, liked this class!! woo!