Cut Out, Stencil Spray

I created a stencil and sprayed it with spray paint to create a black stencil spray image.

First I found an image. I chose an image of Dan Howell (Radio 1 Personality and professional YouTuber - danisnotonfire). I chose this image because it is clear, he looks straight into the camera and it's simple.

I put the image into Photoshop. Here, I altered the threshold, changed the levels to 3 and added an artistic filter. I then selected every tone, apart from white, and made a new layer to fill the shape with black. This meant that I'd have three separate layers with different tones on each one. This would make it easier to cut out later on. 

After printing out the separate layers, I used a craft knife to cut out the black areas so that I'd be left with a stencil. 

Using the stencils, I spray painted three A4 pieces of paper. 

I was left with three different sections of the image. When put together, they would create the whole image shown by the three tones.