Michigan State.

I will be honest. I am not a State fan or a Michigan fan. This was a challenge stencil. I took this project on as a challenge. I got a request for was a HUGE Michigan States helm. So I took a piece of ply board 40" by 30" then printed of 9 sheets of paper. Taking all 9 sheets and taping them in a 3 X 3 (33" x 25.5"). Then I cut it out. Once all cut out I then sprayed a base color of green. After giving the green about 5 minutes of drying time I sprinkled white overtop. giving it both colors of Michigan State. It was a very fun challenge I must say.

School assignment spray painted.

This was a school assignment. In which we had to represent a word, I spray painted a calendar in the background to show that it should be regularly or daily.

Table Project

I spent my summer creating this table. It took about 2 months to make my sketch of a table into a reality. In cutting stencils it took 10 hours alone. Then I sprayed all the stencils over the coarse of 2 weeks. This is my picture journal of the whole process. 

The canvas

 All stencils that were used. not cut out.

Graphing out the table and where things will go. Lot of things got pulled out and/or changed through the process.

Table Progress #1

 Table progress #2

Table progress #3

Table Progress #4

Queen Close-up

Table progress #5

Sublime close-up

Finished stencil work.

 Before clearcoat

After clearcoat

Final Product

I'd like to give a little run down of whats happening in all these pictures. if you start at the top I will number it by the picture it is. In the very first picture is "the canvas" with the help of my friend we created a CAD drawing of this and brought it to my friend who is able to use the large CNC machine. We cut out a huge slab of wood into this shape. From there I took it on myself. I sanded the whole top layer of the wood to be able to paint it. The 2nd picture is a picture of all the stencils I used. I had double and triples of every single paper. In total I printed at least 150 pages of stencils. I spend roughly 10 hours cutting everything out. From there everything got easier. I took it in chunks. My goal was 4 stencils per day. As you scroll through you can see somedays I got 4 somedays I got more/less. To set up each stencil took about 25 minutes. I would spray an adhesive on the stencil and align it onto the table top. Then make marks so I could set the next one on top if it where a multi-layered stencil. After it was set I would place blankets over top the rest of the table so I minimized the amount of overspray. Once everything was in place I spray-painted the color and peeled everything off. repeat this for every stencil. After all that my brother clear coated it. I then took table legs and put them on. Then ending my project.

Heres the table all labeled if you don't know these bands.

I did this is the order I painted them in.
1. MGMT
2. Imagine Dragons
3. Rush
4. The Doors
5. The Who
6. Coldplay
7. Ratatat
8. The XX
9. The Killers
10. Squirrel Nut Zippers
11. Billy Joel
12. The Strokes
13. Radiohead
14. Frank Sinatra
15. Breaking Benjamin
16. The Beatles
17. The Avett Brothers
18. Queen
19. Muse
20. Red Hot Chili Peppers
21. Pink Floyd
22. Fleet Foxes
23. Foo Fighters
24. Sublime
25. Edward Sharpe & the magnetic zeros
26. Aerosmith
27. Steely Dan
28. Def Leppard
29. Metallica
30. The Eagles (in yellow not very visable.)
31. Led Zeppelin
32. Bon Iver
33. The Gorillaz
34.  Jimi Hendrix (right bottom corner. Not visible in picture.)
35. Blue Öyster Cult

Sports Teams

Detroit Lions

Detroit Tigers

Green Bay Packers

Each one of these was very different and different crowds of people. I enjoy making sports teams because you create rivalry between people. For example I created a lions stencil. I give it to the person who loves the lions. Once a guy sees the lions logo. If he is a lions fan then he wants one. On the other hand if he doesn't like the lions he thinks of the team he does like. Once he knows what team he likes then he wants a spray painted version of that. Good deal either way.

Rasta Lion

This right here Is a Rasta lion. This is the very first kind of these I made. I tried something new on this one. Instead of straying the stencil and then cutting it out on a band-saw I ended up spraying the colors in the background and then overtop of that spraying the lion stencil. In the end I think the mesh of colors has a mutual pop effect. The black not only pops the background but it can be reversed.