Stenciling

Using stencils in my work was really interesting, i've never really thought about using this kind of medium before, but i turns out im kind of a natural at it! We did a lot of it at uni (i'll upload some pictures later) and when i got back to my flat i felt that i just had to do more, some of them are from collages that i made myself and other ones are from things that i got out of magazines, personally i think the magazine ones worked better. 

I used fabric paints to colour them in, i didnt realize that i had no acrylics in so i had to work with what i had, but to be fair, the fabric paints worked wonders, they mix so well and give some amazing effects, for instance, the swirls on the yellow jacket (image 3) was from mixing a red and yellow and spiraling it round, it kind of starts mixing into an orange but doesnt get all the way there because the paint isnt being pushed into eachother enough.

I especially love how the illustrations have arms that can't be seen, like this one above (image 4), the arms are crossed so they aren't visible to the viewer, but if you were looking at the original magazine image, you'd see the end of the sleeves and the wearers arms folding into eachother. none of the illustrations have the original colour scheme of clothing on, i've altered all of them into my own image, so they can't really be traced back other than with the stance the models are taking.