#spray stencil

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TigerTuesday + #TwoForTuesday 🐯🐅:

Ludwig Heinrich Jungnickel (Austria, 1881 - 1965)

A Tiger Couple, c. 1903

Air brush (spray stencil) technique on paper, 14 2/5 × 14 1/5 in | 36.5 × 36 cm

[vortexstreet]

David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hujar Dreaming/Yukio Mishima: Saint Sebastian, 1982, Acrylic and spray paint on masonite, 48 × 48 in. (121.9 × 121.9 cm)

[vortexstreet]

Ben Jones of Paper Rad, Fun Coco’s, c.2004, Spraypaint stencil on paper, 23.5 x 17. 5 inches

[andrewtheis-art]

Documentation day: photographed a few dozen prints. Interference patterns.

This work has progressed so much in only three weeks. In mid September I was first decoding the spiral forms that would eventually constructively and destructively interfere.

I’ve let the logic underlying the process determine the compositions. I don’t know what the final images will look like when I set the initial conditions. I am just beginning to understand how placement can effect the final composition and I have only scratched the surface of spiral combinations and formulation.

[andrewtheis-art]

Destructive Interference m1 (2015), 2′x3′ spray stencil on paper.

[andrewtheis-art]

Precision stenciling with an old beat up pattern. Just wait until I bust out the new one.

[andrewtheis-art]

Stencil making process.

This is the largest patterned stencil I’ve ever made. After spending approximately five hours drawing and ten hours of excising (to date), I am halfway there to creating this 15″ x 12″ monstrosity. 

My goal is to use this stencil as 1/4th of the final piece. I will rotate and respray it four times to create a work that is 30″ x 24″. Hopefully.  Then I will layer multiples of the same print and cut out sections from the top layer to reveal the bottom and create a pattern on top of the pattern. The last image is from my sketchbook and captures what I hope to create. Framing will be a nightmare. Stay tuned!

[andrewtheis-art]

I can’t believe I neglected to post this guy. You recognize the pattern and form, the difference is dimensionality. Rather than stack the 5 prints one on one, I created a rudimentary frame to alter the distances from one plane to the next.

Overall I like the effect and I foresee using this structure to create studies of light and color.

The first image is the original with very minimal and uniform distance between the layers. The second image shows the piece without staging. The final image incorporated a little staging and light to make that final plane pop.