Clown Faces from Stencil-Printed Papers

Linda Wyatt, one of the StencilGirl designers, has courageously taken the task of orchestrating a monthly exchange of art between members of the StencilGirl StencilClub.  My hat's off to Linda Wyatt!  I appreciate the work she puts into this and I know I speak for many others as well.

"Fearless Faces" is the latest monthly theme and I've had so much fun with it!  The pair of faces that I came up with will either tickle my trade partner -- or give her a nightmare or two!

For starters, I realized that if I turned my 4" x 4" mask Carnival M340 upside down, its prints needed just a bit of trimming to present me with a goofy image of clown-like eyes and noses.

4" x 4" mask Carnival M340 -- right side up

  

4" x 4" mask Carnival M340 -- upside down

I made two greeting cards featuring these whimsical eyes-and-nose combos.  

After gluing down my pair of combo sets, I started -- with scissors and hole punches at hand -- flipping through prints I'd made using other stencils and masks.

Above:  The clown hair on the far left was cut from a print I'd made in two steps, using a couple of my stencils.  These two steps will be shown at the end of today's post.  The clown hair on the far right was cut from a print made with one of my kelp-inspired masks.

Above:  This clown's hair, on both left and right, were also cut from prints made using my kelp-inspired masks.

The two-step print mentioned above went like this:  

Having started with a brightly multi-colored background, I laid down a coat of dark acrylic paint through the top half of 9" x 12"  Longwood Florals Mask L675....

Soon afterward:  With Titanium White (opaque) acrylic paint, I added a scatter of leaves using my 6" x 6" stencil Ginkgo S076.

After the white paint had dried, I sprayed the whole surface with water-diluted Golden High Flow Acrylic Quinacridone Magenta.

Stencils and masks of today's post include ....

6" x 6" stencil Ginkgo S076

9" x 12"  Longwood Florals Mask L675

9" x 12" Kelp Forest L963.

  

6" x 6" Bulbs and Banners s955.

  

4" x 4" Seabed Greens M339.

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