Skull and crossbones stencil

I was recently in the process of building a Raingutter Regatta trimaran boat with my son who is in his first year of Tiger scouts. He is a big fan of pirates and decided we should paint a skull and crossbones image on the sail. I came across this article describing how to stencil a skull and crossbones as an arts and craft project. We liked the idea, but unfortunately the article didn't include the stencil, so I did some more searching and came across this svg image of a skull and crossbones on Wikipedia. It was created by an unknown author under the creative Commons license, so I used it as a starting point. I installed Inkscape and made modified the image to fit my needs as a stencil. I trimmed out the middle with a utility knife. Then I sprayed a single base red coat, let that dry, the followed up with the blue coat. You can see I did get some overspray, which was because I didn't get the paper flat on the sail. I also used standard printer paper for the stencil. A thicker paper might help prevent the overspray.

I've included a svg and a pdf version of the file. The both the skull and face images are around 2.5" x 3" in size, printable on single sheet of paper. Since I spray painted the stencil and am not very experienced with Inkscape, I wasn't too careful with making the lines very clean. Feel free to modify or use for any of your projects. Leave a comment if you found this image to be useful.

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