The best stencil artist in town signs his work “Sten” and he’s admired worldwide. We’ve checked out his profile on stencilrevolution.com (where he calls himself Spaghetti Sten) and discovered that he makes his stencils by cutting zillions of tiny holes in pieces of plastic and spray-painting through the holes. The stencil preparation is a time-consuming technique that allows Sten to achieve tonal variation when using just one color, as well as to produce highly detailed images.
Both the Madonna and the Marlon above are relatively small – the Madonna can be seen on the north side of the Reale movie theater in Trastevere while Marlon was found in a much more exclusive part of town on Via Frattina – but Sten has recently begun to do highly detailed and larger-than-life figures like those we’ve seen popping up in Naples over the past years.
Keep (s)praying for us, Sten!
