Stenciled T-Shirts
Here are the three different shirt styles Berg and I made the other day. Each one was painted with an airbrush and stencils using water-based paint on cotton shirts. The shirts were $2 bucks a piece at Walgreens, pretty good I feel. The paint, while water-based, claims to be good for textiles. After painting, we let the paint dry, and then heat-set the ink with an iron. None of them have been through the wash yet, but I’m not expecting any problems.
The first stencil is one I made from a photo of my bike. It was cut on paperboard (the back of a cereal box) so the lines aren’t as precise as they could be.
Berg drew this stencil freehand, and cut it right there on paperboard. The stencil only has one bottle, but he used a nice repetition to show it falling. Pretty shnixy!
This stencil uses some odd found objects, such as a leafy branch, a key, an old-fashioned syringe and a plastic star to produce a bizarre image. There is a lot of weird imagery in this one… Look for the crucifix, then the phallus, then the drug imagery, then the phoenix, and then the suggestion that we are addicted to our artificial ways. Then step back, and remember that it is just a t-shirt.
Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 | Sam | Crafty
BRAVO, these are absolutely amazing stencils. Good work gentlemen!
nods good stuff indeed