Famous Landmark Stencil Critique

  Famous Landmark Stencil Critique

Word Bank: Use these vocabulary words in your responses. Please underline or make letters bold when you use them. 

Stencil                 Spray Paint       Xacto Knife        Positive/Negative Space

Composition    Collage                Photoshop        Threshold              Contrast

1. Explain how you changed your photo in the lab to create a stencil.

To change my image of the Golden Gate Bridge in California, we used photoshop and changed the contrast of the composition so that it was all black and white.

2. When creating the collage background explain your choices of colors, materials (magazine paper, books pages, etc), and placement. How does it relate to your topic? If no relation discuss general idea.

For my collage, I used book pages that looked like they were from old books. I placed them so that they were overlapping and so there wasn't really any space that was blank or plain.

3. Discuss the way positive and negative space was used to create your stencil.

You had to cut out stuff that you wanted to be negitive space out of the threshold and keep the stuff that you wanted to be positive space.

4. When using the xacto knife, explain the safety procedures, how to use the knife and any challenges you had to overcome while cutting.

While using the xacto knife, you had to be very careful so that you don't cut yourself on accident or make alot of mistakes. I made the mistake of making my stencil to thin and it ended up having more negative space then positive space.

5. How was your experience with the spray paint? Discuss how color choice is important, placement of stencil, and any other concepts you noticed while creating this. 
I liked this project since we used spray paint and that was fun. The color choice is important so you can see the image clearly. But it did felt like the overall project was kind of long and dragged on.