Helen Roche Art

The next stage of the 'Love Your Neighbourhood' project - transforming the drawings into stencil designs. Some took more tweaking than others! For those who are interested in this type of thing: I made the images black and white, and as vector-friendly as possible. Some I did vectorise and save as SVGs, using Inkscape. Others, I reduced to neat black and white, and then let the laser cutter software do the rest; it turns a simple black and white image into a vector line image. The software at the Hackspace is Lightburn, which accomplishes this feat very well. You can then cut the image at whatever size you choose, as long as it fits on the laser cutter bed!
Here are a few of the designs, ready to be cut:

Trilobite, stencil and print.