What have I been up to today?
Aside from spending most of the day editing a catalogue with 2 other people, I had decided to have a second attempt at a layered stencil after the first one (the acrylic one) ended so badly.
In total I decided to make 5 different colours, However the black had two stencils as it had different details which could not be all included in just one stencil. Despite hating the outcome of this stencil as it does not have much detail, the wrong spray paint has been used and the colours are not the ideal ones that I would want to use, I feel that I have learnt abit more today and this weekend as I was cutting them out. I have managed to add a little more detail which I had done before, but this is still something I am desperate to achieve, getting a better quality stencil. I think I can achieve this in the future by having better spray paints, more shades of grey meaning that I can make more stencils which add a gradient to the work instead of different block greys which stand out really obviously.
I would also spray when there is less wind as this really frustrated me today and I was left with a blurry image and not a neat line, something which also annoys me. In the future I should spend more time on cutting more detail into the stencil so that the outcome will be better. I should have done it this time but I was too eager to try out the stencil that I rushed parts of it. I had a good feeling when I did the second stencil that it would look good in the end but when I got to the 4th stencil, the detail in the arms and face I realised that this would not be something which I would like.
At the end I decided to try and add some yellow detail on the neck of the dress, however the yellow did not sit well on the black, so I sprayed alot of yellow on without thinking which then just left a yellow mark that was bleeding down the image, I had to spray this black again, but there are now marks of yellow left on the picture.
After doing this print I decided to spray the background white, however I ran out of white spray half way though the first one, so decided to spray the background for the second one black.
Next time I need to be more patient, and beter still, more prepared!
This had not worked as well as I hoped, it has not left me in the best of moods
