All About Stenciling

wat paper? wat paint? wat airbrush?

i hope you aren't stenciling words.....

Stencils are generally made or created out of a thin plastic sheet. Stencil paint is available where stencils are sold. You don't use an airbrush, you use a stencil brush. These are sold at Walmart or any arts and crafts store, as well as hardware stores. You can use regular paint for stenciling but only if you are very experienced. You can make stencil brushes using regular paint brushes and rubber bands. BTW, you need to improve your spelling; it's atrocious. There's a place for slang, and this isn't it.

What are you stenciling on? If you are doing walls, all you need is a stencil, a stencil brush that you use by hand, and some tape to hold the stencil where you want it. Then go to the craft store and buy some little bottles of acrylic paint in your colors and start applying it. Get a little board or cookie pan, put some paper towels in it, pour a little paint out into a lid or something, dip your brush into it, and then dab it on the paper towels so you do not have too much paint on it, and then dab it on the walls, do not rub and try not to get any paint under the stencil. If you do get the paint under it, when you take it off, use a Q-tip and water and wipe it off. Then move your stencil and keep on going. If you are doing this on fabric, then get the paint especially for fabric. A stencil brush is round, about 5" long and cheap. I would buy one for each of your colors. After you are done, spray your stencils with some kind of soap, and your brushes, and wash them out good. With the brushes, you may want to put a piece of scotchtape around the bristles to keep them tight for the next time. Let them dry overnight this way. If you are stenciling some piece of furniture, I would seal it with an acrylic spray so it would not scratch off. Read the labels on the paint, for fabric you may have to set the colors with an iron. I have never used an airbrush because that is entirely different.

Maybe you are looking to do a transfer? To put a pattern, picture on a T-shirt? Thin onion skin paper can be used for transfer paper. Go to hobby/craft store & get a transfer pencil to trace your picture/pattern onto the paper. Turn this paper upside down on your shirt so the transfer pencil mark is touching spot you want the picture. Stick pin paper onto shirt to avoid moving paper. Iron picture/pattern onto shirt. Use embroidery paint (usually in a tube) from craft/hobby store & paint it as if from a coloring book. Make sure you have paper towelled cardboard in between front & back of shirt so paint don't get on other side of shirt by accident. If this is not what you wanted, please clarify question.