We looked at Blek le Rat and Banksy. Making an image with stencils is really drawing through (or negotiating with) another material - rather than making direct marks on paper. Another difference is that it needs a lot of planning, simplification and patience, keeping in mind the opposites of black and white, positive and negative, and sometimes having to compromise to keep everything attached! Ink, paint, sometimes sprayed, and rubbed charcoal were used.
Working from kitchen objects, we played around with black on white and white on black, using big brushes and charcoal/chalk with dynamic compositions.
Several quick 5 - 10 minute drawings of each other with instruments etc in various media. But an important part was composing these together at the end to form a group, cropping, overlapping and using bits of different background - and then lying them all together on the floor to form a frieze.
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