i discovered Dispatch from LA during one of those serendipitous trips that i love to take, especially when i should be working. i fell in love with mary ann’s journal style and discovered stenciling as an art form all in a single breath. well, anyone who knows me, knows that i can not stick my big toe in to test the water. i just like to jump in with all my clothes on and make a BIG splash so that everyone around me gets soaked at the same time. having said that, i have now burned about 50 of my own stencils and spray painted a fat stack of papers as well. i dug out the gas mask thingie that i still had from my glass bead making jaunt and went through several cans of the spray paint that has been sitting in the garage for years. that still wasn’t enough to wet my appetite, so i have bought another dozen or so cans of spray paint in bright interesting colors. and so, here is just a titch of what i have to show for my efforts so far…

of course i have a ton more, but the whole scanner has an invisible barrier surrounding it that only allows me to scan a few at a time. swear.

here’s a tiny freebie, just in case you want to experience stencil art in a non-threatening, non-smelly, digital way. click on the pic for download ;0