Putting Together Different Elements To Tell A Story.

This is part one of a three part series (b) is Elegance In A Bucket and (c) is Plaster Stencilling Techniques

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Carol first began stencilling when she and her husband bought their house. There were not many stencils available that Carol found particularly inspiring at the time. It was all either colonial or Victorian

"nothing that particualrly suited my style - and they all had obvious bridges and simply did not excite me - so I let things slide to the point where when I got back to it all my paints had dried up."

"But then one day I ran across a magazine ad for a company that had stencils that just blew me away - gigantic palm trees and monkeys - and no obvious bridges. They looked hand painted when you got done. But what they did require was skill with paint - shading and blending - the one thing I am good at. So I gulped and spent what felt like an outrageous amount on a monkey and a palm tree stencil and got new paints and started back in again."

This is the result. "These monkeys were my comeback project because I was so proud of them".

Carol had moved away from simple borders and small sedate projects. Lets explore with her as she talks about her stencilling world with all of its potentials and possibilities. It is a world where Carol "gets creative with stencils!"

Carol first began having real fun when she found the work of Victoria Larson. By finding the person who actually created the stencils she had found someone who would talk to her about her projects, who would answer her questions about them and who was enthused and thrilled by the sharing of ideas, creative potentialities and who would pass on her knowledge freely and generously.

Putting together different elements to tell a story.

Lets listen for a moment whilst Carol tells us about placing mural images into context.

"originally I was just being lazy when I did my staircase. I put in a background and the 3-D tree at the bottom with its little animals and the tiny birds in the nest - but I didn't do much more with the stair wall except a flight of birds. And then I asked myself - "why are they all flying toward the tree? What's the story?" And so I had to find something exciting for them to fly toward. And finally I found it - a giant ducks egg stencil - two of them hatching baby ducklings. And if you look at the tree, the nest it is quite small - with very tiny birds - so of course these huge eggs and the large baby birds are a mystery that everyone is hurrying to check out.

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