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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
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)