Stencilling

There's something extraordinarily fulfilling about exploring your creative juices in an open space... over Moroccan cuisine...
Today we worked at Amanda's studio; a stock of paints, aerosols, brushes, canvases, and other art material helped each one of us into bringing her workpiece to life. Lauren (above) sprayed her stencil to perfection, while Sumaya contoured calligraphy on her canvas and Pesuri frantically mixed her paints to the right shades of red.
Faza's meticulous pattern-cutting came to a halt as soon as the words 'Morrocan Soup Bar' were mentioned, but it was well worth it. An intimate floor-seated dining arrangement amongst fabrics and paint buckets, with finger-lickin' eating techniques was just the way to end the night!

Stencil

Spray paint the Love

Apart from February 14th being Valentine’s Day and the day my car registration was to be paid by, it was also the Stencil and Street Art Night! Not only were we drawing and cutting out our own stencils and spray painting the design or picture we were also being fed by Reeham who made a delicious Egyptian dish for us. Amanda ran through how we draw and cut out stencils and how we use spray paint. We had a little workstation set up outside with the spray paint and plastic sheets on the floor. This week we were joined by Ramla, Nadia and baby Luqman, Hella and Isma. The girls came up with awesome, individual and creative stencils; Zeina spray painted an intricate zebra print in a few different colours, Sumaya designed some Islamic stencils and flowery patterns, Pesuri and Isma stencilled their names abstractly, Sara started a trend with her starry lightning bolt, Hella stencilled her name in Arabic, Nadia stencilled an artistic hut, Faza worked on a beautiful design involving hair and butterflies, Rumla spray painted a calm stencil of a person sitting down, I showed some defiance with my spray painted fist and Jasmine spelt out ‘love’. We sat down to think of a name. It took a few workshops and long discussions on Facebook and via email but success finally followed! Lisa unveiled the name ‘Crooked Rib’ the following morning.