Stencil

Another way we had to experiment with our chosen band or artist, we were creating the song of the summer album for, we had to make a stencil. We had to make a stencil by using a photo of the artist, and then turning the image into a black and white threshold image. Here is the original image and the threshold image. 

After making the image turn into a threshold picture, I then printed the image out. Then I had to decide whether to cut out the white bits or black bits. I decided to cut out the white parts making sure I made bridges. Bridges are basically lines that join parts, of what your are cutting that may be lost, together to make the image 'whole' or 'in one piece', to make it look like the original picture. 

This picture above is what the stencil looked like after cutting out all of the white sections of the image, making sure it had enough detail showing in each band members face. After cutting out the white parts with a craft knife, I then decided which colour paints and paper I would use. My final choice of coloured paper was white and black, and paint was blue, pink and white. White paint on black card and then blue and pink paint on white card.

The steps I took to complete this task was by placing the stencil on the coloured card and type in down, so that the image would not move while I was painting the image. Once I had place the stencil on the card, I then painted onto the image with a sponge, lightly sponging it up and down so that the paint would create an even layer on the page. I repeated sponging the paint onto the page twice. After letting it dry for a while. I repeated this process for the of colours. 

THESE ARE THE FINAL TWO OUTCOMES... 

This blue and pink image, was much easier to paint, because it only need one layer of paint each. I really like the boldness of the royal blue and the lightness of the pink. Another reason why i like this stencil is because of the definition you can still see of the bands facial features. 

With the black and white stencil, i prefer this the most out of the two. The reason behind this is because of how powerful you can see the definition of the hair line and the eyes are so clear you can see each individual member and can tell them apart straight away.