So I started out yesterday morning feeling stressed out and annoyed. I needed to get out of the house and do something. I called all my friends but they were all busy, so I took to my list. I wanted to do something cheap, easy and possibly artistic… Number 16 fit the bill.
I went to work on a design… I needed something that had a good look, but was simple (easy to cut into a stencil). Something that had meaning behind it, but was able to give someone a smile without know what that meaning was…
I figured it out.
The piece was composed of a few frowning, blob-like creatures coming out of a crack in a wall. It represented the way suburbia continues to grow in this area, even when no one is looking for it. Cucamonga always has at least three new housing complexes being built at any given moment, but nobody is asking for it and nobody is buying either!
Here is the image I came up with:
I sketched it onto some cardboard paper and cut the shapes as carefully as I could, but then realized I might not have any paint… That’s a problem. I went into the garage and found one bottle of gray paint. Perfect!, I thought. This would give me a subtle touch just fitting for the piece.
Next was planning how I would get out and do it. I knew of a place on a wall I would try it and admittedly, I didn’t think it through too much. I thought that as long as I had a hat and something to cover my face I would be safe. In the end I was, but it was probably the stupidest decision I’ve ever made to go out in broad daylight.
I grabbed my materials and walked to the spot. Staring at the brick I was to deface I waited for the traffic to die out and pulled out the stencil. As I laid it on the wall and began to spray the wind picked up and made the stencil move in random directions causing me to freak out put the stuff away and walk in the opposite direction.
The first stencil didn’t end up as crystal clear as I had hoped, but here it is…
I took my stencil and put it down on a random slab of sidewalk and was about to spray when I realized how close I was to an intersection…. Thinking quickly I threw some papers on the ground, acting like I dropped them. When the light turned red, I sprayed for a split second and threw everything back into my bag. No wind was there to stop me and I walked (rather quickly) back home. Mission accomplished.
It was a huge rush and really exciting, but in the end.. I don’t think that spray-paint is my genre. It felt a little to easy to just spray and less “hands-on”.
But! On the way to my second try I found this on the wall:
I had a great idea that involves showcasing other peoples’ work. I’m not going to say it here for fear of someone copying me, but I’ll post pictures when I’m done 
