10-year Anniversary of My First Stencil Class

This month marks the 10 year anniversary of my first stencil class in the Spring of 2011.

This class truly helped cultivate the imagery behind many of the LoveYou2.org posts.

I took a street art stenciling class at WorkshopSF from San Francisco-based stencil artist Jeremy Novy. I started cutting my first stencils in cereal box cardboard and spray painting wood love note signs to hang on fences. Connecting with a street artist and learning to feel the shape of the words with my hands through an exacto knife tip was transcendental. Spray painting became my new obsession and led to the creation of many public displays of affection, my fence signs made on reclaimed wood with stencils.