A trial piece from my city in flux artist research

 

I made this experimental piece after looking at Banksy's work. I looked at the different kinds of satirical topics he had portrayed in his works & also the use of black, white and minimal use of red colours in his stencil pieces. I also noticed that Banksy uses a minimal amount of words with his pieces. Then after all this, I tried choosing a satirical topic to base my experimental piece on and eventually came up with the topic of underage gun usage in America.
To make the piece I:
1 - Found an image from google images. However this image wasn't a straight-forward stencil, it had shading.
2 - In order to get rid of the shading I inserted the image into Photoshop, went on to Image>Adjustments>Posterize, then Image>Adjustments>Threshold and this made the image into a solid black and white fill stencil for me to cutout.
3 - Once I cutout the stencil with a craft knife and cutting mat, I went back on to Photoshop and did a couple of trials with the stencil image in order to see how it was going to look (i.e. what was the typography going to say, where was it going to be placed etc.) In the end I realised that what I wrote in the above picture was too long and just settled for, 'I'm Only 11' as this was short just like Banksy's work, and also like Banksy's work, this made people think about the phrase and how it linked to the stencil.