On the 16th, my buddy K came over, and we did some stenciling. Both of us felt like we were totally out of the groove. Blah, blah, blah. Nothing interesting, nothing exciting.
I am pretty sure the last time we did any stenciling was nearly a year ago.
We'd forgotten how the paint behaves. We'd forgotten what we liked and what we didn't, and how to get from "Not" to "Oh Yeah!"
We weren't applying things that we know from other work -- that you need contrast in value, in size-of-stencil, for example.
This was the first thing I managed that seemed at all interesting to me.
I decided it was high time to quit ... trying ... and start just plain experimenting.
Really liking the effect of printing with the side of the stencil/mask that got sprayed at least as well as the effect of doing the spraying in the first place......
Thinking I will trace the hand mask with white ink, higher on the page than the current pair of hands.........
Not sure how much I like the "cheap lace glove" look......... But I like the black edge on the right side of the hand, and I like the printing over it.....
This seriously needs something else............. I am thinking it's time to take pens to a number of these............
Both sides of the new stencil. Quite liking this first one............
The mask has a ways to go before I will be wanting to quit using it.
And -- the overspray on the paper covering the table is often the most interesting result of all.............
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2 comments:
These are amazing. I am quite fond of the blue double-hand print one...and the flower just below it. I like what you say about how the paint behaves. It definitely has some personality.
Thanks!
The blue one -- I used the hand mask to keep the white spray off the blue paper, and then turned it over and printed the white paint on its back onto the paper. Twice. :-)
The flower -- had that black & white check all over it (from spraying through some rubbery shelf-liner stuff). I used the same burst-of-rays stencil, with white, and then with yellow.
Stenciling is really fun, once you get in your groove and stop feeling like you are just stumbling around...........
:-)
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