Stencil Painting Techniques

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Tres Hoyt and I'm here at Asel Art Supply in Austin, Texas and I'm going to talk to you about some stenciling techniques. One of the first ways is using a piece of chipped board or something like that. Now to create the stencil here I have printed out on the computer Asel in a black and white photograph and you can do this with any sort of black and white photograph and you want to take a really nice clean fine Exacto Blade because you are going to run through these pretty quickly and you just cut along the lines here but first off I will show you how to use this with just a regular style paint and a brush. Lay the stencil down and get a good amount of paint on there, hold the stencil down and start painting inside. If you are afraid of the stencil moving or anything while you are painting if it is a larger stencil or if it is made of thinner materials you can use tape to tape it down. I have also used ball bearings if you have little tiny sections, tape a ball bearing to the top in different places and it will hold the stencil down. Then when you are done you just lift it up sideways like that and you've got your Asel design right there. Another way that you can do the same principle here is you can use a product that is called Friskit and this is used by air brush artists, all kinds of different people like to use it and this is a clear version and what it is is you just pull it away so it is sort of like a low tech sticker. It just peels off just like that. I'm just going to cut a basic shape out of here and again make sure that you have a nice cutting board because this is thin and it is going to cut right through it so you don't need a lot of pressure to get this done. Pop that triangle right out and this creates your positive and negative stencil, lay it down, give it a little touch like that and paint inside. If you are worried about paint leaking under there use a little matte medium to seal the edges just like doing that with matte medium that will work but since this is an adhesive low tech that is not a very severe problem that you are going to have to worry about and you just pull the edge up and I have here a little Frank action where we have cut out the face and I have used the positive of the bunny head there and I have used negative stenciling using spray paint caps and just dusting around the edges there. This is all done with spray paint not brush work here and then you can get even more detailed. I printed out a photo. I had to do a self portrait. I printed out a photograph on four pieces of paper and glued them on to this piece of poster board and then I just cut out all the negative areas. Now the problem with this stencil is that it has not been stored properly. You can see that it is wrinkled and pieces are falling out. You want to make sure that you store all of your stencils flat on something that is pressured like in between two pieces of cardboard something like that but this is the finished result of the self portrait stencil. So you can see you can get all the way from small details to very fine details in comparison there."