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Tatsuki (JP)
I mainly draw people's faces with spray acrylic paint using a technique called stencil.
Tasty New Showstopper Uploads
New Photos from San Francisco
Thanks to: Esmeralda, Lynn
Spinning: Bowie, Beatles
Valencia St. (just one)
In the Mission (just one)
China Basin (just one)
New Photos from Europe

Thanks to: Chris Benfield, Deborah, @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @GraffitiRadical, u/IogicaI, u/NastyNava
Spinning: Bowie
Jef Aerosol (just one)
Chuck Sperry cuts a stencil in France
Germany (just one)
Hamburg (just one)
Italy (just one)
Spain (just one)
In the UK
New Photos from the Americas

Thanks to: Jeremy Novy, @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @GraffitiRadical, u/IogicaI, u/NastyNava
Spinning: AC/DC; Jerry Garcia Band; Led Zeppelin; Bowie
>NEW< Hijack in NYC
Ancient hand stencils in Primal
A 2017 Burningman cut out
One in Sacramento
A few in Denver
One in Florida
Faile (just one)
A massive cut out from Logan Hicks
Voxx (just one)
Bogata (just one)
Toxicomano (just one)
Erre (CO)
Also: https://www.instagram.com/erre.erre/
I like to cut. Stenciling is a technique that allows me to reproduce my images as many times as I want in different sizes and very quickly. It is also a very simple technique that is available to anyone, which makes it a technique of action, of wanting to do, of carrying out an idea.
HOKZYN (MX)
I like to do something appropriate to the space and for that it is necessary to take measures and generate a spreadsheet that adapts to the place, that takes time. In the process of the cuts I found a kind of therapy, of meditation, like a mantra - something repetitive that at the same time is new - that fascinated me and that I cannot stop doing.
Your Sunday Stencil Sampler

Thanks to: @Emily_Lykos, Jaime Rojo for Brooklyn Street Art, @RadicalGraffiti, u/Gudariak, u/w0f0z, u/shares_inDeleware, u/Pzy2209
Spinning: Duke and Coleman,
Australia (just one)
Martha Cooper snaps one in Kinshasa
Colombia (just one)
Ireland (just one)
Nebraska (just one)
misstencil (just one)
Around the Castro
Turkey (North Kurdistan)
More Submissions from Srđan Tunić
Once again, many thanks to Srđan Tunić for sending these submissions our way.
Spinning: Louis Armstrong, The Jazz Messengers with Monk, Michael Franti and Spearhead
>NEW< Bosnia and Herzegovina
>NEW< Montenegro