Thank you to Stencil Girl Products and Tina Walker for a wonderful challenge sharing an artist that inspires you in your creative work using StencilGirl Stencils. My artist of choice is Seth Apter, a talented mixed media artist located in New York City, New York. I have been following Seth for quite a few years and had the utmost pleasure of meeting up with him at our annual "Creativation" trade show for the Paper Crafting industry and are now creative friends.
Seth's style is just up my alley, vintage-y, grungy and industrial. So I tend to reach for his stencils first whenever I am creating an art journal page, etc. However, for this challenge I wanted to do something a bit different, I struggled for weeks about what to create using his stencils. Then it hit me one evening sitting in my craft room. I had pulled out an older art journal that I "played" in with no real direction when it came to me, why not make one of my signature dress forms using these pages. The pages were already done so only needed to add the stenciling.
I used three different stencils over the already done art journal pages with Prima Finnabair white medium gel to add the dimension, then used Fiskars flag punch to punch out enough pieces to create a 18" dress paper mache dress form.
StencilGirl Products- Seth Apter Stencils
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I ended up punching out four large journal pages to cove the dress.
I applied each punched flag with Beacon 3-in-1 Adhesive and created a dress on the dress form. Start at the bottom, go all the way around then move up a row until you get to the top, turn the flags around to create the top. I added the wire hole punched edge to make a creative top edge of the bodice.
Thank you for stopping by, be sure to check out the other artists that are participating by visiting at https://tinyurl.com/y4ns74v3