Wildestic: Giraffe, Zebra, Leopard, Jaguar and Tiger

I used a craft knife to engrave the geometrical patterns of the giraffe which took me longer than I had thought about 25 minutes but I was very exited as it was very first time using a stencil.

Spray Paint on recycled Canvas

The black giraffe on the left is the stencil which I used to create my sprayed giraffe next to it.

I noticed the puckering of the emulsion which gave the background a cloudy effect, illustrating a landscape out in the wilderness.

Therefore, I covered up the giraffe and sprayed the rest of the piece.

I have leant that I should spray ever so little to have the effect I want especially to show up the puckering effect. This is because I can add more if I want, but too much of paint can not be taken off without having to replace with another colour.

This is after respraying to get the landscape effect.

Here I have retouched the paining to cover up untouched places which I had concealed by newspaper and masking tape.

Experiment on A2 paper

Here I have my stencil on A1 paper. What I like about this image is that it looks as it is a final outcome of a process. I believe this is because of the simplicity of the overall design and the construction. The very black and white colours contrast perfectly giving the balance on the piece.

Although by just laying the black stencil on a plain piece of paper looks successful as a picture, I wanted to experiment more of the Giraffe's geometrical patterns which is formed naturally on their body.

The spray paint created soft and darker tones consisting of tiny blobs, some moving into one direction which appears to look like a sand storm.

Here I have six sprayed giraffe to construct the layout geometrical,

I have also used spray paint to make darker and bolder visual which demonstrates movements of the the giraffes.

This is the back of the paper which was an accident but it illustrates an attack from a predator's claws on the giraffe...

The very dark black paint emphasis the blood coming out of the giraffe's skin. This bloody concept brings my piece back to focus on "making awareness of these wildestic animals" using a fusion of the giraffe's body pattern joining with the predator's claw motion in one that have not been seen together before, but that through their association clearly demonstrates my new idea & message.

This medium I was using was a very thick cardboard which I was struggling to cut out the patterns, therefore I decided to switch the medium to a thinner material.