Thread: Stencils???

that sounds like a really cool idea, can't say I have any really good, relevent ideas for you tho! Let me think on it for a while, and I will come back and let you know if I come up with anything

Here's one way of doing it.

Base your surface with the mortar color (cement between the bricks)

Make yourself a stencil like pictured below out of your fav stencil material (card board, x ray film, penit felt) draw your bricks out, cut the bricks out (I cut three out in my example) place it over your base color and spray your bricks.

Find a good photo reference of a old grit. wall for color reference.

Hope that helps.

Don,
Thank you, that was kind of what I was thinking. That does help. Do you think I could use Frisket Film?

depends on what kind of paint and what kind of surface

I'd be afraid the frisket might pull up the base paint
If the surface is prep correctly and the base color adheres well no problem

Just don't use frisket with solvent based paint

no matter what kind of masking or stencil you use just remember to spray squarely at the stencil to reduce the chances of paint under spray, painting getting where you don't want it under the stencil

Yeah, and it wouldn't be as realistic, but you could just use fine line tape and line out your "mortar color" then paint your brick color...mist over the fine line tape with black, or a darkened brick color to create depth at the mortar lines.... remove the tape and there is a simple brick wall?? Just a thought to keep it pretty simple too

meat keep us posted the out come of this project please

I will let you know how it turns out.