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How can I get fewer visible bridges in my stencil?
Sometimes it can be tough to get a clean-looking stencil with no visible bridges. Stencils with more layers typically have fewer visible bridges If you’re having trouble with awkward bridges, it might help to dial up the number of layers in your stencil. The more colors (layers) you use, the more likely that you’re going…
Small and Extra-small Stencils
Suppose you want to stencil Taylor Swift’s face onto twenty pairs of sneakers, and sell them on Etsy. Great idea! [Chuck Taylor Swift. Chuck Taylor. Taylor Swift. Get it?] Now let’s look at how that idea meets reality. Spoiler alert: Dave is going to talk you into accepting some limitations of small-scale stencil work. Read…
Stencil artist showcase 2024
Stencil art continues to evolve, and in 2024, we’re seeing some innovation across the globe from artists who are taking the plunge into stenciling. We’re thrilled to showcase these talented stencil artists who are leaving their unique marks—literally and figuratively—in their work. From Scotlund Haisley, not his first rodeo. Great execution! Long-time stenciler and mixed…
How to Pre-Process Your Stencil Images with PhotoPea
What do you use to pre-process your stencil images? Anything? If you’re not using anything today, I would recommend using something like PhotoPea. PhotoPea is an image editor that runs in your browser. Why would I want to process an image before uploading to Bay Stencil? Usually Bay Stencil gives you some pretty good options…
Rainbow Magic: Hexachrome Halftone Stencils (CMYKOG)
Rainbow Magic: Hexachrome Halftone Stencils Transform Art
Three-color Traditional Stencil plus Halftone for Portraits that Pop: Kylian Mbappé
Stencil portraits are great. From portrait stencil cards to the classic three-tone portrait to making a wall of faces, there’s no more compelling image than the face of somebody you love. That’s why we keep finding more ways to make those portraits POP. Here’s the latest. Halftone Portraits From our earlier post, you probably know…
Stencil Artists from 2023
Love the way you’ve incorporated stencils into your artwork over the course of the last year. Go stencilers! ‘Joker’, ‘Tiger’ and ‘Jason’ are all from Daron Wolf. You can see more from him on Instagram. Tyler built the ‘Godzilla’ tableau. This is Tyler’s first ever attempt at stenciling! ‘#87’ comes to us from Kevin Minium,…
The Painting Curve is Not a Curve
Larry’s Painting Curve My first painting teacher, Larry Robinson, described The Painting Curve to us this way: you start with a blank canvas, you rapidly develop an underpainting that you like, you add some basic composition and then you reach a plateau. The plateau comes because you don’t want to lose any of the potential…
Make a Text Stencil Using Any Font
Stenciling images is cool, but often you want to add some text to give context to the thing you’re stenciling. Alphabet letter stencils and stencil fonts It used to be, the way to handle this was to take out your big set of letter stencils, like the parking lot painters, and just do one letter…
Halftone Color Stencils that are Not CMYK
I’ve chosen the name for this post so that hopefully, if you’re here, you know about halftones and are looking for something beyond the standard CMYK halftone separation. Four-color separations We’ll start with the four-color separations which include CMYK, and work our way down the list to separation models with fewer and fewer colors. CMYK:Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black…

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