Sunday 22 January 2012

Stencilling

A couple of weeks ago, my next door neighbour's teenage daughter came to me to ask whether I could paint her name on a t-shirt. After taking inspiration from a book called Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy, we ended up creating this stencil :

Il y a deux semaines, la fille de nos voisins est venue me demander si je pouvais peindre son prenom sur un t-shirt. Apres nous etre inspirees d'un livre intitule Mastering Copperplate Calligraphy, nous avons cree ce pochoir :




Since it was a one-off stencil, I didn't want to create it out of a plastic film. I trialled a paper one on which I had added some sticky tape to make it last long enough. Teevao seemed pretty pleased with the result :

Vu que le pochoir allait etre a usage unique, je ne voulais pas en faire un a partir d'un film plastique. J'ai essaye sur une feuille de papier que j'ai renforcee a l'aide de scotch. Teevao semblait plutot satisfaite du resultat :