The Stencil Graffiti Handbook
An informative and inspirational guide to a powerful form of creative expression, The Stencil Graffiti Handbook is invaluable to designers, street artists, and aspiring guerrilla marketers alike.

With current political and cultural climates across the globe growing more uncertain, a new generation of artists, designers, and communicators are using stencil art on the walls of towns and cities to voice thought-provoking messages and ideas. Exploring the medium’s applications within grassroots activism and the contemporary craft scene, Tristan Manco returns to the streets and brings this thriving art form to life.

Exploring both process and results, this book delves into stencil art’s essential elements—place, space, technique, and subjects—before taking to the streets to see how, where, and why stencil graffiti is exhibited. Having accumulated an extensive network of street art contacts through more than two decades of immersion in the scene, Manco has scoured the globe for today’s most interesting stencil artists—those who operate outside the mainstream market of “urban art” and beneath the radar of everyone but the truly aware.

Featuring studio visits with artists and step-by-step instructional illustrations by the renowned Columbian art collective Stinkfish, The Stencil Graffiti Handbook is a must-have for anyone with an open mind and rebellious spirit.

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The Stencil Graffiti Handbook
An informative and inspirational guide to a powerful form of creative expression, The Stencil Graffiti Handbook is invaluable to designers, street artists, and aspiring guerrilla marketers alike.

With current political and cultural climates across the globe growing more uncertain, a new generation of artists, designers, and communicators are using stencil art on the walls of towns and cities to voice thought-provoking messages and ideas. Exploring the medium’s applications within grassroots activism and the contemporary craft scene, Tristan Manco returns to the streets and brings this thriving art form to life.

Exploring both process and results, this book delves into stencil art’s essential elements—place, space, technique, and subjects—before taking to the streets to see how, where, and why stencil graffiti is exhibited. Having accumulated an extensive network of street art contacts through more than two decades of immersion in the scene, Manco has scoured the globe for today’s most interesting stencil artists—those who operate outside the mainstream market of “urban art” and beneath the radar of everyone but the truly aware.

Featuring studio visits with artists and step-by-step instructional illustrations by the renowned Columbian art collective Stinkfish, The Stencil Graffiti Handbook is a must-have for anyone with an open mind and rebellious spirit.

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The Stencil Graffiti Handbook

The Stencil Graffiti Handbook

by Tristan Manco
The Stencil Graffiti Handbook

The Stencil Graffiti Handbook

by Tristan Manco

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An informative and inspirational guide to a powerful form of creative expression, The Stencil Graffiti Handbook is invaluable to designers, street artists, and aspiring guerrilla marketers alike.

With current political and cultural climates across the globe growing more uncertain, a new generation of artists, designers, and communicators are using stencil art on the walls of towns and cities to voice thought-provoking messages and ideas. Exploring the medium’s applications within grassroots activism and the contemporary craft scene, Tristan Manco returns to the streets and brings this thriving art form to life.

Exploring both process and results, this book delves into stencil art’s essential elements—place, space, technique, and subjects—before taking to the streets to see how, where, and why stencil graffiti is exhibited. Having accumulated an extensive network of street art contacts through more than two decades of immersion in the scene, Manco has scoured the globe for today’s most interesting stencil artists—those who operate outside the mainstream market of “urban art” and beneath the radar of everyone but the truly aware.

Featuring studio visits with artists and step-by-step instructional illustrations by the renowned Columbian art collective Stinkfish, The Stencil Graffiti Handbook is a must-have for anyone with an open mind and rebellious spirit.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780500022856
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 06/16/2020
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Tristan Manco is the author of many graffiti and street art titles, including Stencil Graffiti, Street Logos, Graffiti Brasil, Street Sketchbook, and Street Sketchbook: Journeys. Manco leads workshops on street art practices and is a regular lecturer at schools and colleges, as well as being a sought-after consultant and speaker at street art conferences.

Table of Contents

Introduction 016

1 The Basics 024

Manual de Stencil 028

How to Paint a Stencil 036

Perfect Placement 038

2 Techniques 046

Tone Effects 050

Murals 068

Paste-Ups and Mixed Media 080

Layering and Collage 090

3 Activism 098

Protest Art 102

Subvertising 114

Community Projects 116

Nazza 122

Common Yard 126

Work in Progress 128

4 Themes 130

Quotaction 134

Pattern 146

Figurative 152

Pop Art 164

Social Commentary 170

Animal Kingdom 186

5 Streets 192

Berlin 196

Bogotá 202

Brighton 210

Buenos Aires 216

Lisbon 222

Melbourne 228

Paris 234

Portland 240

6 Studios 250

Daniel Melim 254

Monstfur 260

Cawamo 264

The Stencil Network 268

Eelus 272

Tools and Materials 278

Health and Safety Tips 279

Further Reading 280

Online Resources 281

Acknowledgments 284

Picture Credits 285

Index 286

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