Stencils

These are my first attempts at stenciling:

http://server5.uploadit.org/files/Density-Morrisonstencil.jpg
http://server5.uploadit.org/files/Density-Hendrixstencil.jpg

I've been having a tough time with eliminating the underspray, and was hoping maybe one of you could give me some ideas.

I had read somewhere that tape would help hold it down, and I tried it on the Morrison stencil, but I still ended up with a good amount of underspray and bigh white squares where the tape was. I also tried rubber cementing them onto the page, but that turned out looking even worse.

Use spray adhesive.

will it be easier to seperate the paper and stencil afterwards with spray adhesive than rubber cement? .. on both of mine the faces are very weakly attatched and I almost broke the morrison one trying to remove it from the paper.

Spray the stencil from around 1-2ft away so that it doesn't get too sticky. It has to be just enough so that it'll just grab the paper for a while. Plus it takes like 10-15 seconds to set so just pop the stencil on, spray it, and remove it (slowly). It also helps to use heavier paper. I used to cut stencils out of 50lb. sketch paper, but once I started to do more complicated designs I switched over to 80++.

cool, I'll definitley try it. Thanks for your help