HSEAD STANDARDS MANUAL

STENCILING ON WOOD – Members
Chairs, boxes, cornice, etc. (Designs used for stenciling on tin will not be accepted for Stenciling on Wood.)

1. DESIGN – 10% of points

Choose typical, well-balanced design composed of many different units shaded one behind the other.  One piece stencil designs will not be accepted.  If it is a scenic design, it must contain sufficient different units, shaded one behind the other, for judging.  Choose designs of proper scale for the article; the article must be of authentic size and shape and correct for the category.  If the units one behind another must be counted, usually the design is not adequate for judging.

2. CUTTING OF STENCIL – 20% of points

Stencil must show clean cutting with no rough edges, angular curves, or broken areas.  Veins must be free and fine but discernible.  Ovals and circles must be true.

3. STENCILING AND OVERALL FEELING – 30% of points

The article must show skillful stenciling with bronze lining powders and create the illusion of a third dimension by skillful, smooth shading of unit behind unit.  Highlights should be well polished.

Overall feeling must be pleasing without conspicuously brilliant areas or harsh, dull or weak ones.  There must be no loose powder adhering to the background.

Central motif must be well placed; relationship of the lesser units must be made meaningful by careful placement and shading; all other decoration must bear a proper relationship to the whole with a good balance of light and shadow.  All repeat motifs must be of the same brilliance.  Avoid over-crowding or obvious blank areas.  Metal leaf painting will be judged here according to the Requirements for Metal Leaf Painting.

Suggestion: The theory of all stenciling is highlight to shadow with powders smoothly blended.  Often more than one shade of bronze powder was used in one motif or design.

4. BACKGROUND - 10% of points

The background must be smooth and appropriate to the article.  It may be either grained or solid color.

5. STRIPING – 15% of points

The decoration must include a wide bronzed, metal leaf or painted band, as well as a line stripe placed along the lines of construction.  It must be straight, sure, of even width, and of good opaque color.  Turnings will be considered a band.

6. FINISH – 15% of points

The finish includes application of background paint and the varnish finish.  Both must be free of specks and brush mark ridges.  The final finish must have a smooth, hand rubbed surface, with or without a high gloss.  Raw (unrubbed) varnish, dull-type varnish, and sprayed finishes will not be accepted. 

ALL WORK MUST BE DONE BY THE EXHIBITING MEMBER.

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