So yesterday, I had plans to do some household chores and pick up my spray painting stuff for the Stencilry class I’m taking… I did say ‘plans’ right? Well, things did go slightly awry and it’s not all my fault LOL!
I went into Vancouver to get my hair highlighted for my ’summer-look’ and now I’m a strawberry blonde/light red haired chick. Looks fab and I’m totally happy with the results! Then the plan was for me to hit a few local stores and pick-up my gear for the class. Well, the weather turned sour and windy/wet, I couldn’t get parking on Granville Island [where Opus - my art supply store of choice resides], had to run a few more errands than anticipated and generally ran outta time.
House of Flying Daggers
I got home to a hubby who was still in his pjs and watching martial arts dvds, with our two kitties in his lap and beside his legs on the couch. You go honey! You deserve a break and you’ve been working really hard. Seeing him like that, I threw out all ideas of chores and flopped on the other couch since obviously the weather wasn’t going to let me spray outside. We settled in and watched the visual feast that is “The House of Flying Daggers”.
Good Lord! These modern Asian martial arts movies are so gorgeous and full of colourful goodness. The colour combos by the artistic directors of these epic movies are truly breathless… The scenery and the costumes are lush and vibrant and so inspiring when it comes to developing a colour palette for new artwork! Pure eyecandy. The subtitles I could live without… but the soft sh-sh-sh sounds of the Mandarin language are lovely to listen to and let’s face it, I don’t understand Mandarin so subtitles are kinda necessary LOL. I really have started enjoy watching this new genre of martial arts movie… I don’t need to understand all the details in the flick and if I miss a few substitles whilst starting at an exceptionally beautiful scene it doesn’t bother me a bit. I’m just happy to enjoy the visual feast.
A few favorites if you are into visually stimulating and creative movies in this martial arts genre are:
The House of Flying Daggers | Curse of the Golden Flower | Hero | Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon | The Promise and of course the non-martial arts beauty: Memoirs of a Geisha
I digress… On to the topic at hand. Stencilry!
I had posted to our Yahoo Stencilry group that I was going to share some of my favorite, self-designed stencils that I’ve used in both designing our paperWERX lines of paper and in my own personal artwork. I have often created stencils that I can use in the design/carving of LARGE rubberstamp slabs. I’m talking HUGE. like 12×12 stamps or bigger! The designs can be either very simple, repeated patterns or complex, interlocking motifs of botanical image and damask patterns, etc. Below are two examples of stencil/carving designs I created for a specific project and they have come to be two of my favorite patterns.
You are free to download and use these patterns in your PERSONAL artwork only. These designs are unique and created by me, and therefore are copyrighted and are not allowed for usage in commercial art or design without my permission.
To download the 8×8″ PDF version of the pattens, please click on the links below:
Happy stencil cutting and enjoy!
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