{"id":1873,"date":"2013-04-30T10:42:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/?p=1873"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T17:42:22","slug":"abstract-graffiti-and-stenciled-buildings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/abstract-graffiti-and-stenciled-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract graffiti and stenciled buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I hate painting so much? I watch tv or just play games instead of producing something. Stressed out because I needed pieces to show in my class the next day, I procrastinated 2 hours and finally started painting at 1am. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130430-112206.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130430-112206.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"20130430-112206.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI think the painting works because I&#8217;m starting to use the spray and fading aspects of the spraypaint as a feature. Before, I kept trying to get sharp, hard lines (as though I&#8217;m using a paint marker), but spraypaint isn&#8217;t exact. <\/p>\n<p>I had an idea of lightly stenciling a city skyline, then a skyline of suburbia, then farms and eventually mountains. On top of this, I planned to paint graffiti lettering. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130430-112234.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130430-112234.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"20130430-112234.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAfter cutting the stencils, I found I really enjoyed using them to paint the skyline and the rolling hills- eventually using them for the clouds. <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130430-112254.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130430-112254.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"20130430-112254.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI set that one aside and decided to experiment with using stencils to create abstract shapes.  I couldn&#8217;t find anything else to use as a texture, so I took a plastic bag, covered my hand and started changing the shape of the bag as I painted. I kept adding more and more layers using different shapes, stencils and also using crumpled pieces of tape to create stenciled shapes. Below is a photo after I&#8217;ve added some abstract shapes, dripped paint on the canvas and started outlining large blocky letters. I eventually painted over these because I wanted to continue with the abstract experimenting that was working well. <br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130430-112307.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/20130430-112307.jpg?w=840\" alt=\"20130430-112307.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I hate painting so much? I watch tv or just play games instead of producing something. Stressed out because I needed pieces to show in my class the next day, I procrastinated 2 hours and finally started painting at 1am. I think the painting works because I&#8217;m starting to use the spray and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/abstract-graffiti-and-stenciled-buildings\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Abstract graffiti and stenciled buildings&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[258],"tags":[284,285,283],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-ive-made","tag-abstract-art","tag-painting","tag-stencil"],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Abstract graffiti and stenciled buildings - LearningMore<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meandyouis.us\/charles\/abstract-graffiti-and-stenciled-buildings\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Abstract graffiti and stenciled buildings - LearningMore\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Why do I hate painting so much? 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