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Sierpinski Loop I.
Really happy with how this came out -- it's oils, mixing orange and white, 12x12, via a vinyl stencil.
I picked up a couple of super shitty cheap student brushes today because I couldn't find a non-shitty stencil brush at the art store.
So it's $0.69 of the worst, saddest collection of hog-or-is-it? bristles you've ever seen, just a tremendously crapshit brush -- but literally the perfect tool for this particular job.
@joshmillard This is really nice.
@migurski Thanks! Tipping my hand with the title but I'm thinking of a series.
@joshmillard Are you making the stencils with an xacto or using a vinyl cutter?
@migurski Vinyl cutter. I bought a Cricut machine late last year, and create vector shapes in Inkscape, import those .svgs into the (excellent) Cricut's (shitty) software, cut a vinyl stencil that way. Then pick out negative space, use mildly adhesive transfer material to transfer the vinyl to a canvas or board, and paint from there.
@joshmillard Seems like you could go arbitrarily large with this.
@migurski In principle, yes. In practice, scaling up is a problem I still need to tackle. I can only cut stuff a foot wide with my Cricut; in theory it could be much longer than that, though my largest cutting mat is only 12x24.
So going bigger means piecewise stencils made of multiple parts, which again in theory no problem; in practice I currently have no good way of registering gross placement of the transferred stencil more accurately than 1/8". So neat, flush edges is a problem.
@migurski Using a less flimsy, less adhesive stencil approach is the likely solution, and I'm gonna try that -- instead of catastrophically fiddly material that I have to place just right the first time, use card stock with a mild adhesive spray and be able to reposition it a bunch if needed. But I might lose some of the really good tight seal I can get with the vinyl.
We'll see. I'm *excited* about going large with it, practical issues notwithstanding.