My boredom during these holidays has led me to new hobbies that grant me opportunities to be creative. My latest craze is stenciling! On Thursday I went out and bought a can of spray paint, some 100gsm printable card and some other random helpful oddities. I then used my sister's "scribe" as shown below to begin my work. I'm a complete newbie when it comes to this and I plan to do a lot of experimentation in the next few days involving multi colour designs, painting with a roller, using chalk to touch up after painting and different techniques. Below is my second ever stencil of Donnie Darko (the first was merely a proof of concept to check that I wasn't wasting my time on something that would look shit). I spent about an hour or so sorting out the stencil for this one and then I applied a heavy spray painted layer while it was 'tacked down,' that was a mistake, look at the white splodges and how the paint splurged everywhere!

So next time I went with just a light spray with the finer parts held down from above using small rocks and weighted objects. Didn't turn out too bad and with the edges trimmed would look quite good mounted. I may make some modifications and add a blue hoodie layer to this.

This is my latest effort (below). It took roughly two hours to make the stencil simply because the hair took so long and at times the bridging was hard to conceal. I was being adventurous with this one and purposely chose an image with difficult areas to cut away. This isn't the greatest of stencils to spray due to all the tiny little bits but I tried it anyway. I plan to go out and buy some paint, rollers and coloured card to make this look nice tomorrow.