More stencils

I’ve been making more stencils, experimenting with different thicknesses of plastic and differently shaped X-acto blades and implements.   This one is in the first stuff that I got, which is extra heavyweight, it really limits my detail and broke more than one X-acto blade. Tiny broken razor tips flying everywhere is not awesome.

Yeah, I had to tape more paper to it again.

Then I worked on this one in the heavyweight, which still feels pretty solid but is significantly easier to work in.  I’ve got a still-lighter weight stack of plastic, and I will try that next to see if it’s still solid enough to be truly re-usable.

This is just as I started to sand it.  I’m pretty sure the dust that results from sanding plastic is not good for me, so I have been wearing a mask, and trying to get outside when possible. The weather has been cold still but relatively mild, I can bundle up and sit outside for ten minutes before I start shivering. Since quitting smoking I no longer have the supernatural power against the cold.