ive just started stenciling and i now i need paint. Ive got a couple stencils ready, some small some big.
i have no idea about what to use
ive been on www.skinnycap.com
i was wondering if any of you could link me to a site, tell me what sort of paint to get and also the places in london to get it.

When I used to write, I got my stuff from http://www.valleyofchrome.com, but I'd buy well known brands like Belton and Montana

get onto skinnycap, they are a local scottish shop that are agreeing to stock my zine.
also check out fat buddha another scottish graff shop.
anychance on having a look at the stencils you have going? are they multilayered?
you would be best going with the leading brands of paint, montana and monster. Then you need to consider about thickness of caps for spraying, different widths of nozzles producing different effects.

yeh i have no idea on cap size and shiz.ill upload the stencil in a mo

needs a caption


what a legend

nice one, right.
you need to eliminate the floating islands, as in the bits of white that have no connection to the outside ( e.g. if you cut the top ones legs out, where would the little white white bits go? tthis tutorial might explain it better

In the bottom one you need to loose the red, well not entirely, you can lay down a red base coat, then layer the white and black over it. Again the islands rule applies,

yeh ive already bridged the gaps. only one i havnt is in the first and thats the one inbetween the legs. It doest look right without it but i dont know how to bridge it without it looking stupid

In my experience, skate shops usually sell a limited supply of painting stuff.
Failing that, there's usually a couple of people painting at Southbank when its quieter, i suppose you could always ask them where they get their stuff from...

yeh i dont live in london, its just gregs going there fri, might be able to get me some, said he'd ask in slam city if they knew where to get some.
only shop near me is hard edge which is owned by some old guy that defo wont sell it

Colmans do Paint pens. It's a pity Addict stopped selling cans. I need some for my next griptape.

http://www.graff-city.com/page2.htm

Some on here

cans -
caps-

How do you even make stencils out of regular photos? Always fancied doing some, could never be bothered to go through the hassle of converting a photograph into a stencil though.

"i'm looking for a slogan to go beneath my stencil"

nice, ill keep that in mind


simple steps
get photoshop cs2 (cs3 fucks it up)
open up photo in it
desaturate it (B&W)
Gaugasiun blur (found under filters) this will make it blurred and will give you definate B&W after the next step
whack up the contrast to full and fiddle with the brightness
generally takes 30 seconds unless your making a complicated (fiddling with more stuff in photoshop)

Used your instructions in cs3, it worked fine.

Did the same thing in GIMP, works. Having a hard time trying to get them looking right though, Photoshop is probably better.

when i use the college comps it never seems to work properly

Only thing i noticed was if i didn't tick the "Use Legacy" box when altering the brightness and contrast it didn't work, with that ticked it worked fine.

ahhh ok ill try that when i go back to college

i did one

hint: shes sexiest woman on earth

you need to sharpen that shit up before thinking of cutting it, i'm just uploading one i cut today, hold-on

Double post/



going to wait till i get some decent paint and stomp this out.

I always wanted to try stencilling but never really had the patience, thought i'd give it a go.



Not as good as i'd hoped but i think i know what i did wrong so meh.

Yes. Get that up all over England without delay. Too many people have forgotten about Mario.

thats not to bad actually
the under spray is due to the stencil not being stuck down enough, try using some spray fixative/tiny bits of bluetack, another method i have seen used is placing a mesh over the whole stencils then spraying it, but i reckon thats just a bit naff..
Oh and leave the paint it dry before lifting the stencil! ( thats why there are bobbly paint drops above his head)

Reckon it looks better with the bobbly bits.

That looks class, is it just cut out onto paper though?

Looks like card.

looks like banksy wont be out of a job any day soon...........

only kidding - but get them up on some walls guys !!!

Love the mario one....get an epidemic of marios all over the UK.

could be a whole new thread !!!

some stuff i did back in the day.




bit of sin city.

trix, you need to get back into it man

what he said
nice stencils pal.

i'm way too lazy. i've got a fair few ideas stuff, but i need a book to write them down and doodle in.



and i also need some motavation, anyone selling?

sticker them.
less effort/

too poor for that.

My mum threw my spray paint away cos she thought i was bad maning the streets up

got 3 tins of monster through the post today

the newest stencil....



EDIT: not completley finished but close enough

sort the fingers out mann

yeh since then ive been tampering with it but they always look proper nasty

~How I combat underspray~



i use double-sided tape, not the sellotape brand but guess this would be the same tho




You just cut off thin strips and stick them very close to any vulnerable edges which might get undersprayed...press down firmly when you got your stencil in position...and viola! NO underspray, ever.

SOOO much better than blutac or fixative etc IMO

[btw wait until the stencil is dry before you rip it off cos the glue from the tape is really sticky when its just sprayed]



like this











And even if your can's running out you can still get an interesting effect. Bit blotchy tho haha

erm hate to burst your bubble but youve got it on all of them

mine just on photoshop and ive used gaussian blur to help thats why it looks like it.

also just use spray mount, much much easier

How do you guys actually cut the stencil out? scissors?

razor blade or stencil knife

erm no i haven't. By islands, if you mean when I pick the stencil up, nothing falls out of it, then no, there are no islands. Just very, very flimsy tho lol


Hence the double-sided tape

I quite like the over spray!

I would say that that under spray has worked wonders on that second last spray.

i like the effect in cases but you have it