Students learn everything from hollowing out a barrel to checkering a stock — carving fine crosshatched indentations behind the trigger both for decoration and to create a solid grip.
You can also insert "blank" board letters for pure decoration or to create a word that has less than four letters.
There is a lot that you can do at home with existing materials or using recycled materials, and many of these things don't take much time: Use recycled materials (such as colored paper, old magazines, ribbons, etc)., reuse old decorations and build on them, to create decorations.
It doesn't get more meta than this: the Scottish artist McKenzie hired her own interior-decoration company, Atelier, to create her installation at MOMA.
Rather, he progressively stripped away the distracting decorations in his films to create an abstract drama of human relationships, with others and perhaps with God (if God exists).
(art workshop, to create decorations for the stage, at 10 a.m).; tomorrow and Sunday at 2 p.m., with the art workshop at 1. Tickets: $15 (summer special, two tickets for the price of one); $5 workshop fee.
All you need to create decorations with stencils is stiff paper, plastic or cardboard from which to cut the stencil, a sharp knife, a stencil brush and paint or some other kind of coloring agent.
