- published: 09 Feb 2010
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A stencil is a thin sheet of material, such as paper, plastic, or metal, with letters or a design cut from it, used to produce the letters or design on an underlying surface by applying pigment through the cut-out holes in the material. The key advantage of a stencil is that it can be reused to repeatedly and rapidly produce the same letters or design. The design produced with a stencil is also called a stencil. The context in which stencil is used makes clear which meaning is intended. Although aerosol or painting stencils can be made for one-time use, typically they are made to be reusable. To be reusable, they must remain intact after a design is produced and the stencil is removed from the work surface. With some designs, this is done by connecting stencil islands (sections of material that are inside cut-out "holes" in the stencil) to other parts of the stencil with bridges (narrow sections of material that are not cut out).
Stencil technique in visual art is also referred to as pochoir. A related technique (which has found applicability in some surrealist compositions) is aerography, in which spray-painting is done around a three-dimensional object to create a negative of the object instead of a positive of a stencil design. This technique was used in cave paintings dating to 10,000 BC, where human hands were used in painting hand print outlines among paintings of animals and other objects. The artist sprayed pigment around his hand by using a hollow bone, blown by mouth to direct a stream of pigment.
If I were made of stone could you shake my soul
To its very core like no one could before
Now you turned me into such a fool and you know it's true
And if I never make it back to you, just know I wanted to
If I were made of stone could you shake my soul
To its very core no one could before
It was easy to block the thought of you
But you get right through and I'm glad you do
Now you turned me into such a fool and you know it's true
And if I never make it back to you just know I wanted to
I don't know how I can tell you straight
Its gotta be just the right time anyways
I swear to god one day I'm gonna say it to your face
Yeah, one day
If I were made of stone could you shake my soul
To its very core like no one could before
Now you turned me into such a fool and I don't know if you know it's true
But if I never make it back to you just know I wanted to
Just know I wanted to, just know I wanted to
And I don't know if you know it's true