Create Something Saturday’s- DIY Stencil Art. By 8thlopez on July 26, 2010 If you are a fan of graffiti or any type of street art, chances are you have come across an artist named Banksy who does impeccable stencil art installations and is now a world-renowned artist, even though he keeps his identity a secret.
You may not be an aspiring Banksy, but would like to make some stencil art yourself. If you follow these directions you will be able to easily make stencil art of your own all by doing a quick picture edit, printing it out, cutting it out, and then painting! What you will need: A printer with black inkXacto KnifePaintsCard Stock Weight PaperCanvasRegular Paint BrushSponge Paint BrushBright Colored Marker Directions: The first thing you want to do is find a picture that you would like to make into a stencil. Recolor the picture to grayscale. Turn the contrast all the way up to 100%. After you have printed the picture, take a bright marker and trace the parts that you will be cutting out. WARNING! “Oh cool stencil art?!? “Me.” Virginia and Charlie. Last week I spent several days on vacation with Dad, Char, Frank and Cameron.
Needless to say, many of the photos you are about to see are of Cameron. Each day we went for a walk on the beach and everyone took turns holding Cam. Well, everyone but me, I was busy taking photos. This is the face Cam would make each time we threw a rock into the water and then he would whimper. For some reason, he just didn't like it. See that dead crab? On this particular day, our walk started to get into Cam's nap time. Cam now smiles on command. As we walked we looked for sea glass. That's Char and Frank in the canoe. Hey Cam, my phone is not a drum. Watching these two wrestle is hilarious. Photo Challenge Day 15: Silhouette Cam spent a lot of time here.
Poster DIY Project. This is a quick project that you can do to create a poster image size painting from a small image.
I decided to do a portrait, but this will work for any image. what you need: -a photograph (preferably on 8.5 x 11 in. size paper) -large piece of paper (bristol board) 20 x 24 in. and up -pencil -ruler -eraser -brush -black ink (or paint) step 1 I decided to use my daughter's photo - I chose this photo because of her expression. In Photoshop I took the colour photo and turned it to a black and white image - in the Photoshop program you go to filter - artistic - cut out. This will give you the image that I got from my photo. Step 2 take the image print out and draw a grid on the photo using the pencil and ruler. step 4 start drawing! Step 5 continue throughout the drawing till the entire image is complete. step 6 finished drawing step 7 take the black ink and proceed to fill in the drawing - you can also use paint. last step take the eraser and erase all the pencil lines on the poster.