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Published: 2005-07-02 00:44:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1382; Favourites: 26; Downloads: 245
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one layer stencil on a sheet of cardboard (my favorite)if you dont know, this is Michael Caine from the movie "Get Careter"
I like the way this turned out..
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get carter was filmed in my home town. deff fave
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i always thought he was such a bad ass in that movie
nice stencil man
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I'm loving this.
This is the sort of thing I would put on my bedroom wall, how did you make this?
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i made a stencil and spray painted it on to a sheet of cardboard..
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Very nice job! I like the high level of contrast from the paint and the cardboard
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Ahh the iconic 'Get Carter' pose, very nicely done. Your piece is pulp art, in the truest sense of the word (it's on cardboard after all).
Nice job!
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this looks amazing!!!!
its really cool that you work on cardboard, but do you prime it with anything before you paint it? otherwise the paint wont last long, and it would be a shame to lose awesome pieces like this one.
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I didnt do anything to it. What would you suggest priming it with?
thanks
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well for painting in acrylic or oil i use gesso. you put a couple layers of it on whatever you want to paint and it will hold the paint for several hundred years. however, its opaque white so you wont be able to keep the color of the cardboard, which i think is a nice effect. if you ask at your local art supply store they might be able to recommend something transparent, i dont know of anything myself...but you can mix acrylic paint into the gesso to color it.
(i think I heard somewhere that untreated cardboard will only hold paint for a max of ten years or so, or even less depanding on the paint you use)
hope that helped!
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this one I cut out of a manilla folder and I used Photoshop to design the stencil.
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i still dunno how you create those sharp edges. and one layer..
dope job. and nice new avatar too
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thanks 
the answer is a really sharp x-acto knife. that and tweeking the hell out of the image using shadow/hilight plugin in Photshop CS..
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i Love michaeL caine! i Love cardboard! i Love your gaLLery! but this is by far my favourite!
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i Love michaeL caine! i Love cardboard! i Love your gaLLery! but this is by far my favourite!
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Good job. I'm not enamored of the cardboard, the ribs show up too well and it (sorry) looks cheap, like you couldn't find a piece of paper to use.
However, it's exceptionally clean. It's a great shot and it's a great desision of what to put where. I love your use of positive and negative space too. Very nice.
CW
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nothing against this stencil...its hot...just something funny i found...i typed in guy with gun on goodle images and this was one of the first pictures that came up. but u made it your own dont get me wrong
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yeah, I found the image using google or yahoo image serach so I am not surprised.
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I saw this on stencil revolution earlier today. When I saw the thumbnail, I asked myself, "Is that Michael Caine"? Sure enough...
Sweet. Faboo detail.
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That is absolutely amazing! I've never seen a cardboard canvas before, haha. Excellent.
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Haha. This is awesome.
Extra neat on the cardboard.
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thanks
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That's just...fantastic!
It looks exactly like Michael Caine...and it looks fantastic on cardboard
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jeeeesus.
how long have you been cutting stencils?
everything you do is so detailed.. any tips?
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right on
I have been cutting stencils for nearly 8 months I'd say...
the best tips I have:
use spray adhesive to hold the stencil down
cut the stencils from somthing like transparency film or mylar film
make sure all your cuts are clean and straight (so the cuts make a 90 deg angle with the surface)
photoshop:
use a large image to create the stencil from
use the sharpen tool
use the shadow/highlight tool
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