Art is a form of expression. Artists convey their messages through their different art forms. Painters deliver their messages through their paintings, singers deliver these messages through their songs and actors and actresses deliver their messages through the roles that they portray in their movies. One very easy art form is stenciling.
Stenciling is the course of producing an image by tracing on a design or stencil. The tracing of a stencil also requires colors. It is the choice of the artist on what color to choose. Stenciling provides non-artists with the chance to produce art works with their own interpretation of color and the stencil pattern.
Researchers say stenciling is dated back to the prehistoric era as shown by markings on the caves. The earliest considered form of stencil patterns is the hands. While children are left home and their parents do the shopping, parents trace the feet of their children if they want to buy them shoes. This act is often considered as stenciling.
There are many types of stencil patterns and stencils. Some of these types are aerosol stencils, home stenciling, wall stenciling and stencil graffiti. Stencils are also used by official organizations. Home stenciling is used in decorating walls, bedrooms and other surfaces in the house that needs designs. Official organizations use stencils for labeling objects, vehicles and places. Stencils enable organizations to label these things quickly and clearly. The stencils used by these organizations are frequently customized.
Each organization has different colors or different characters for easier identification. On the other hand, stenciling is often considered illegal when it is used in doing graffiti on the walls. Stencil graffiti is a popular way of expressing disgust in the government and promoting different organizations. Frequently, stencil graffiti is used by rebels and militants to express what they want to say.
Stenciling is considered as an easy way to create an artwork. There are many stencil patterns that are suited to each age so that anyone can create their own artwork. Every people can also create their own stencil patterns. Other than having numerous designs to choose from, stenciling is also very easy. The steps to follow in stenciling are so easy; a person can create his art work in just a period of 15-1 hour. Stenciling doesn’t necessarily require an inspiration or a long period to finish a project.
Stenciling requires the subject area to be clean from any dirt and the brush to be used must be dry. It also requires outmost concentration on the stencil design. Accuracy and keenness to details are also traits that one must possess in order to produce a good stenciled project.
Stenciling is an act of tracing someone’s pattern or your own pattern. Nonetheless, it is not considered as a violation of intellectual right where in one person steals the design or pattern of another individual. When a person creates his or her stencil pattern and agrees that his designs will be used by other peoples.
Stenciling is an art that is directed to people who doesn’t have the extra special gift of crafting and designing their own patterns. It is an art designed for people who loves art but couldn’t find the time to work on a project. It is an art that gives people the opportunity to do an art work regardless of their abilities. It does not discriminate.
