Spurred on by the
6th International Morsbagging Sunday and a request to donate bags for a "rubbish and bag free" primary school fĂȘte in Melbourne, I whipped up 11 Morsbags last Sunday. Two of these were stencilled...
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This bag was decidedly plain and brown, so I decided it needed jazzing up with some birds sitting around on a wire. Which I made into a branch on the spur of the moment by branching one end and making the second one a little curvy.
Of course, once finished, I realised it looked a little silly. Talk about the world's strongest, skinniest branch!
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Also, I recommend properly ironing down the freezer paper stencil and always painting away from the edges. Otherwise you end up with blobs like those you can see in the close-up above. But remember... it's a branch! Saved!
The inspiration for this stencil came from the above picture, snapped by
Justin Case in Barcelona. I have a lot of my own pictures of street art that I've taken around the world which I also love to draw inspiration from.
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The next Morsbag was cute on its own, made from a thrifted cushion cover. The polka-dots reminded me of snow flakes, so I decided a polar bear would be a nice addition.
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Even though I've bought coloured screen painting ink, I still end up working predominantly in black and white.
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And just to finish up, here's a picture of a stencilled Morsbag I made a little while ago from an old sheet. I have a lot more of this fabric, and I hope each one will each have a stencilled picture to distract people from the pattern!
2 comments:
I think both stencils are terrific. I went to do a freezer paper stencil on the weekend - but can't remember where I put the roll that I bought a couple of months ago and have not yet used! So you're STREETS ahead of me I think!
Amazing bags JenMeister! Your stencils are always so elegant! Hope to see you again at the 7th International Morsbagging Sunday on July 25th :o) Ciao!
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