Egyptian stencilled painting
I did a research project about Egyptian tomb paintings. The assignment included making a stencil print of one of the paintings. I chose to do this painting: This is not my photograph I started by making lots of stencils to print the men, the moon etc. Masking tape was used to retain the brown cotton's original colour in some areas. I used dye extracted brown cotton and added blue fabric paint to represent the night sky: I put a couple of Egyptian symbols on both sides of the painting. I started to put the seated men, using the different stencils. I peeled off the masking tape to reveal the original fabric colour in some areas. The finished piece: