#Paint and sip stencils how to
#Paint and sip stencils professional

After my latest stencil fiasco, I am cautiously ambivalent about the wall decals. Learn paint pouring as you sip your favourite drinks at this Fortitude Valley workshop. The nice ones cost about 50 bucks and the only skill involved is peeling the designs off the backing and sticking them to the wall. Honestly, this pretense that I have even one artistic speck in my body has to stop. I try to spot the editing - surely there’s a rough cut in there somewhere that represents a three-hour time lapse where the artist is doing magic things off-screen to make the stencil come out properly. But if you use the right material you can make a DIY stencil for wood signs that you can use over and over again Look no further than your laminator.

#Paint and sip stencils how to

You know those DIY videos? Those cheery little four-minute Facebook episodes of someone turning a basement bargain dresser into a beautifully stenciled masterpiece? Oh, I still watch those but I’m squinting bitterly and making disparaging sounds in my throat. Thursday, Ever wonder how to make DIY reusable stencils with Silhouette CAMEO If you create a stencil with vinyl you can use it once then you have to throw it out. That doesn’t work either, but the wine makes it less painful in the short term. I’ve also tried to slow down the process by taking out a big piece of practice paper, pouring a glass of wine, choosing a round foam-tipped brush, taking a sip, dipping the brush in the paint and gently dabbing the excess paint off on a paper towel, sipping, and then carefully blotting the paint on top of the stencil. Also, it lasts a long time those pavers mock me every day.)

When that doesn’t work out - shocker! - I think I can improve the outcome by going FASTER, hurrying down a path of stepping stones in quick succession with an increasingly mangled stencil tool and the glue-like remains of paint in the bottom of the can. In reality, I throw the stencil down on top of a dusty paver and hit it with the dregs of a mostly used can of spray paint. You see, I’m not the overly arrogant type of I’ve-got-this artist.

#Paint and sip stencils professional

Yes, that’s my professional stencil skill level.Įven more so because I “practiced” stencils. I’ll just add a little more paint over here, I think, and then just straighten up this geometry a teensy bit, a little dot over here … Pretty soon my mandala looks like it took a hit of LSD on its way to a Dumpster fire. There’s a separate section of hell for stencilers like me, though, the ones who think they can “fix” the ruined stencil attempt.