stencil
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Banksy’s stencil works are with the murals on the fifth floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
A simple hand stencil found on a cave wall in Indonesia has been identified as the oldest known example of rock art on Earth.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026
The hand stencil dates back at least 67,800 years, making it the oldest reliably dated cave art ever found.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026
A light source with a very tight wavelength, somewhere between ultraviolet light and X-rays, shines through a chip-shaped stencil and onto the silicon wafer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
They’ve promised me they’ll stencil in ‘Mr. Milly’ later this week.”
From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein
Design studies for Olana included in the exhibit provide further details about the ornamental stencils that characterize Church’s home both inside and out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Stewart offers several stencils and designs — 41 to be exact! — to help you decorate your porch pumpkins like a pro.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
On Friday, Musk shared two side-by-side A.I.-generated images of graffiti-style stencils: a smiling, handsome Kirk, and a cowering, dying Zarutska.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
The "Girl With Balloon" artwork is part of a series of paintings and stencils by the guerrilla artist.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
I wonder if they created drawings and stencils first, or if they just grabbed their cans of spray paint and improvised.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
What does raw fish have to do with stenciled street art?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
The artist known for spray-painting stenciled images of rats and protesters onto buildings around the world has also worked hard to remain anonymous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
The next record in the archival files is his business card, crisp and rectangular with the words “The Baron Georg von Trapp” stenciled in the center.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025
Beside a real and severely pruned cherry tree, the artist stenciled a small figure holding a pressure hose.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Instead of their own names, the jockeys had stenciled the names of Howard’s horses on the back.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
According to Le Monde, both couples who stencilled the Star of David graffiti were accompanied by a photographer whose job was to put the images straightaway online.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 2023
A slogan stencilled in red onto the road in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: "Drawing the line."
From Reuters ● Mar. 16, 2023
Each cage was stencilled with the name and the brand of the bull-breeder.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
While stenciling and pulp painting are inherently additive practices, blowouts are subtractive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026
The nanocryotron was created by using electron beam lithography, a kind of stenciling technique that uses a beam of electrons to remove a polymer film to expose a particular region of interest.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
The ministry also accused Russia of being behind the stenciling of Jewish stars last November on walls in Paris and its suburbs, causing alarm about the safety of France’s Jewish community, the largest in Europe.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
When he visits the wall that cordons off Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, he adds to its profusion of graffiti, stenciling onto it a Sumerian phrase cribbed from that Mesopotamian pillar.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
We’d chosen blue and were stenciling white stars all over it.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Famed for his stencilling combining humour with graffiti, as well as his 2010 Academy award-nominated film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy's identity has long remained a mystery.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2022
These include fixed drawing room seating with Art Nouveau glass panels, original light fittings and light switches, carved chimney pieces, servant bell pushes and much of the original stencilling to the hall and stairs.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021
“That’s the beauty of it. They are making this modern world and still someone has laboured over stencilling over these thousands of dividers across Mumbai. It’s quite something.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2019
Early "straight" graffiti was abandoned for stencilling and clear, legible, instantly understandable sloganeering.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
The man who was stencilling the new ones and tossing them into a pile stopped.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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