If you're on the internet, which you clearly are, you may have come across the website known as the Chive, a blog collection of amusing, inspirational, random and generally time consuming images.
They hold Bill Murray in very high regard (which is never a bad thing) and created their own mashup of Shepard Fairey's 'Hope' and 'Obey' posters to create a Bill Murray 'Laugh' print, despite many failed attempts to purchase a print I opted to create my own canvas of the piece with stencils and spray-paint.
They have also got their own take on the 'Keep Calm' signs, which are insanely popular on their t-shirts and sell out in minutes.
I decided to make my own canvas version of this as well, so thought I'd stick down the steps here if you were feeling creative.
What you will need:
Cutting Implement - I Use an Xacto handle with no.11 blades
Cutting Mat - Saves your surfaces suffering slices
Card - I Use 210gsm card
Paint - I'm using 'Valley Green' Montana Hardcore (gloss) and White MTN94 (Matt)
Mask - Safety First
Patience - It may take some time to cut
Weights - I use coins to weigh down the stencil, others use spray mount glue, but coins, nuts and bolts work for me
Step 1 - Spray your canvas background
Step 2 - Get Cutting
While that's drying you can get to the cutting mat, print out the chosen lettering/logo either directly onto card (if you have a nice large printer) or print onto paper and stick onto your card...Cut out letters (Make sure you keep the 'islands' which are the insides of the letters, you'll need them later)
The crown logo also needs the inside details cutting out, so that detail can be added.
Step 3 - Admire your stencil creation, place against a dark background to see how it will look, if you've gone wrong there's nothing that a piece of masking tape and a recut can't fix.
Step 4 - Prep for spraying
Line up stencil on canvas, weigh down edges of each letter to reduce underspray and cover any part of the canvas that you don't want to paint, to reduce overspray.
Place islands back inside relevant letters and weigh down.
Step 5 - Spray Away
Shake can for at least 1 minute.
For best results hold can about 12 inches away from canvas and spray sparingly, better to do several light layers and leave a few minutes in between to dry rather than clagging it up and risking seepage.
Step 6 - Remove stencil to see how it's gone
Step 7 - Once Dry place back the crown logo that was previously cut, to add the detail with the green paint.
Step 8 - Stick on a wall and feel like you've created something
Step 9 - KCCO!
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