Stencil Designs

I have only made one stencil since the feedback but this new stencil is sharper and more defined with effective use of the negative space as well as adding a traditional street art festival element to it (street dancer). The highly textured negative space that I was able to cut out was inspired by the work of Banksy. This art work in particular, shown below:

Each coloured stencil represents each area of the festival as a type of directory but I shall look into making stencils of other imagery to see which works best; one stencil for all events or individual stencils for each event. Sprayed onto basic paper but I shall spray them onto a brick wall to get a better vision of how they would look when placed in the appropriate space for what they stand for.

Image Source

http://media.tumblr.com/d65e1022695eb436480dda5540db4ad8/tumblr_inline_n8eujsTI0n1s72zrw.jpg

Areas of the City of Colours Festival

The festival provides events such as live music, art sales and graffiti workshops.

Although, rather than assigning each stencil design to each activity that is taking place, would probably be better to assign the designs to the different areas of where these activities happen.

The areas include:

Source

www.cityofcolours.co.uk

Feedback

From discussing my progress with the tutors on 21st April, it is clear that I need to keep going back to the key factors of what makes up site specific work such as the materials, imagery, location, audience.

What I have made so far hasn't truly displayed the essence of the City of Colours Festival as it can be seen as a generic image of a slightly misshapen bull. I need to consider the attributes of what the festival and street art in general is about. Attributes such as tagging, street dancers, bold symbols used in the underground graffiti scene as a mark of territory.

What was suggested to work on as the module comes to the end is to make a stack of stencils based around the festival that relates visually to the festival and have each individual image represent each event of the festival.

Source

www.cityofcolours.co.uk

Trial runs

I used the stencil that I cut out from the laser cutter and did some trial runs on A2 cartridge paper. I need to be more careful with how much paint and how many colours I use. Also need to look into new spray paints so it doesn't splatter too much, different medium to spray on and possibly make another stencil using thin MDF so parts don't break off.

3D Workshop for a sharper stencil

Using Adobe Illustrator, I traced out the bull and submitted it to the laser cutter for a crisper/sharper stencil outline.

Experimenting with spray paint work (in progress)

Symbolism

Symbolic imagery can be very powerful and moving in order to support the purpose of what it stands for, quite often seen in propaganda campaigns.

Alfred Leete created one of the biggest, boldest and most successful icons used for the British Army's propaganda campaign to sign up more troops for the First World War. The stern expression and finger pointing of what was seen as a "masculine" male figure made the audience feel like he was actually looking through you.

"Your Country Needs You" - Alfred Leete

This is an American propaganda poster used during World War II to inspire women workers to work harder in the factories. The woman is known to be influenced by a worker known as Geraldine Doyle. It was later rediscovered in the 1980s and also named as "Rosie the Riveter" after the cultural icon of American women workers. To this day, this image has been used multiple times to inspire a generation particularly in feminist culture.

"We Can Do It!" - J.  Howard Miller

Although, some symbolic images can originally provide no meaning at all yet they can be taken and displayed to the world and somehow people find that they can relate because of its appearance as well as who's displaying it (capitalism). They could see this image as a representation of their identity, aka branding.

Apple

Nike

Sources


https://flor3nceslittlemind.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/alfred-leete-lord-kitchner-second-edition021.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!
http://sa-08.deviantart.com/art/Apple-Logo-112323299
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=nike+logo&safe=off&es_sm=91&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=MQYpVabZC6iy7Qaqw4HYAw&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1230&bih=706