Famous Landmark Stencil

The Famous Landmark Stencil was a pretty easy project. What we had to do to start was go into photoshop with a picture then change it to a postive/negative picture, which makes it black and white(Threshold). When we were making the collage for the stencil to go on; I used a mix of light,dark, colorful and some things that represented the Olympic's because they 2012 Olympic games were held in London, England, which is also where my picture was taken. What I did with my stencil was i but out all the black space, which looking at it finished i should of done it the other way because it looks like there too much background (negative space) and it drowns out the look of the bridge, it doesnt pop out as much as it would have. To make our stencils we had to trace the image onto paper from a projecter, which didn't take long, then we had to cut it out with a tool called an xacto knife. To use this you basically just cut along the places you traced and pull it out, the cutting was actually really time consuming because what would happen was you would cut something and it would'nt be cut all the way through and i had to pull it out or cut it again. The spray painting was the easiest step by far and the least challenging. To spray paint it we just had to position our stencil on the collage and spray around it and all the details. The color choice I used was a white covered by black to give it the effect of fading, this can be make it pop out more and look much nicer if you do it correctly.