Stencil art inspiration

Stencil art has become much more than just a fancy form of graffiti. It is now a very legitimate if somewhat rebellious form of street art thanks to the influence of artists such as Banksy.

Bobbys, originally uploaded by What What.

 

 

Snort, originally uploaded by What What.

This site has some great stencil templates which are a fantastic start for possible mosaics.

Chimpanzee How about this one for the Steve Irwin Mosaic Tribute Project? ;)

And how about making your own stencils?

It can be done in a graphic program such as Photoshop but thankfully for people like me, it can also be done in programs like Microsoft Word :) .

How?

barking owl, originally uploaded by GeoWombats.

Open the picture you want by Insert -> Picture and dropping it into the document.

Open Word and look for the Picture Toolbar under View. There’s a symbol that looks like gray and black and white bars on the left side of that bar which is the Image Control icon. Press this and convert your colour pic to black and white.

Next use the brightness buttons to adjust the image to what you want. Then save and voila! A basic stencil! owl-stencil.doc

This will come up as a very brief download of the above owl in black and white.

~ by mosaik on October 12, 2006.

Posted in Inspiration, My Photos, My stuff, Public art, Street Art, Technique, Tools and Tips, flickr

4 Responses to “Stencil art inspiration”

  1. I use stencils a lot to repeat patterns and also to cut shapes out of glass…….really a great way to create patterns.

    martinbrownart said this on January 17, 2007 at 3:22 am

  2. thats cool

    julian said this on March 19, 2008 at 11:31 am

  3. the author of those stencils is not what what… they are the true work of banksy…

    Lionz said this on August 4, 2008 at 1:31 am

  4. SO CHOICE

    SHORTBUS said this on July 26, 2009 at 11:59 am

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