The How-To: Tarantino Stencil

Two of my favorite things would have to be: Tarantino movies and making stencils. I feel as if Tarantino is modern day's Hitchcock, an innovator, a bit of a weird one, with an ability to tell a good story, visually and verbally. So I decided to create a stencil parodying Hitchcock. It's based off of this image:

VIDEO NOTES:

-So on my first try (which is what I recorded in the video) I didn't like the way the stencil came out. So it looks different from the final image in the video because I toyed with it and re-did it over and over again. Which goes to show you, practice makes perfect!
-Use a fresh, sharp X-acto knife to cut your stencil.
-In the video my image is a picture of Tarantino that I edited via Photoshop to make the lines I wanted to stencil more clear. I then inverted it to reduce black (to save ink).

So heres the How-To! Enjoy!



The How-To: Tarantino Stencil from Laura Chau on Vimeo.



xx, LC

Photorealism - Art or Fart?

Transference by Gregory Thielker

Route 7 by Gregory Thielker

Take a good goooooood look at the images above. Pretty interesting photography, right? Wrong! These paintings are part of a series by Gregory Thielker entitled Under The Unminding Sky. The set is part of a genre called photorealism, where the artists render paintings that are meant to look photographic. There's been a lot of controversy on whether or not you can really call this art. Although technically perfect, many critics say that for something to be considered a work of art, it must evoke feeling or make a statement. They argue that rendering paintings to look like reality makes no statement and takes little metaphysical thinking. What do you think?

PB & J 1/2 by Mary Ellen Johnson

By: Wayne Forrest

By: Dru Blair

By: Rob Hefferan

By: Halim Ghodbane

xx, LC