The wall was painted with Prom Night, a deep purple matt paint from Crown Paints. The pattern is stencilled in black using a design called DE82 Repeat No 16 from The Stencil Library. There is a step by step project showing the creation of this wall it in our how-to stencil section. In this follow up project, I will replace the purple and black stencil scheme with colour. This is just to show you a different look with the same design.
The design repeats in any direction by fitting the printed areas on the stencil directly over the area that you have just stencilled.
I quite like the idea of only colouring part of the wall.....
...but seeing as that was not the object of the excerise, I completed the pattern in colour. This is a very traditional style of pattern given a non traditional treatment. What do you think? Colour or monochrome?
Helen
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Love the oranges! Did you use a number of different oranges/pinks etc? and sort of blend them together? Thanks Cat
Posted by: Cat | July 02, 2009 at 12:08 AM
Yes I did. I call it 'random swirling' Bright orange was on one stencil brush and scarlet on another. Both colours were applied randomly and overlapped each other.
Thank you for your question.
Posted by: stencil helen | July 03, 2009 at 12:06 PM
brilliant update! i love it!
Posted by: Lynne Rutter | July 04, 2009 at 04:22 AM