Playing with stencils : exploring repetition, pattern, and personal designs

Playing with stencils Exploring repetition, pattern, and personal designs

Amy Rice

Book - 2013

"Learn how to design and cut stencils from your own drawings or photographs with Playing with Stencils! You'll discover how a simple doodle or series of shapes can have great impact when made into a stencil. The projects run the gamut from ideas for walls, floors, rugs, furniture, stationery, and posters to cake and cupcake stencils, stencils to customize your bicycle and garage door, and even an outdoor mural! All the templates for the featured projects are included.Stencil art has been around for years, often used for home decorating and for simple crafts, but has gained current interest and cache due it's guerrilla use as street art (often making a political statement), and has become a worldwide subculture. Stencil graffi...ti has given stencil art a new sheen of coolness. This book will show you how to incorporate that look into your work, your accessories, and your home. You'll become inspired to use stencils in your journaling, in collage, on fabric, on totes, and in art pieces designed to be hung on walls--and you will know how to create fantastic custom designs"--

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Subjects
Stencil work.
Published
Beverly, MA : Quarry Books 2013.
Language
English
Main Author
Amy Rice (-)
Physical Description
142 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
ISBN
9781592538294
  • Getting started : designing, enlarging, transferring, cutting, and burning
  • Projects to play with : inspiring stencil ideas
  • Gallery : influential contemporary artists who use stencils
  • Templates.
Review by Booklist Review

The word stencil is typically associated with Americana or fussy intricate patterns. Here, Rice changes our attitude with 20 projects. She excels at explaining the basics, beginning with the actual design of the project, and she provides step-by-step color photographs to augment her written instructions. Her aesthetic viewpoint does not depend on one era or one style. Rather, she delights in gathering inspiration from the world, including German paper cutting (scherenschnitte), twentieth-century rustic antiques, mod and pop, Victorian lace, and many others. There's much to admire and choose from here, including shadow-box frames (with paper dolls inside), customer wallpaper, and a dancing-in-the-rain shower curtain. At the end, a rogue's gallery that is, 10 featured stencilers and their backgrounds, with samples of work wrap up a motivating crafts book.--Jacobs, Barbara Copyright 2010 Booklist

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Review by Library Journal Review

Multimedia artist Rice explores the possibilities of stenciling in this collection of basic to intermediate-level projects. Rice shows crafters how to cut or burn custom stencils from their own artwork or photographs, then presents a variety of projects that showcase stenciling on materials ranging from fabric and wood to paper products and cake. Each project includes step-by-step illustrations with photographs, allowing novices to follow along with little difficulty. Verdict This is a solid overview to the essentials of stencil-making and stenciling, and the variety of projects will appeal to crafters.-Nanette Donohue, Champaign, P.L., IL (c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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