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Hi all. Seth Apter here. Welcome to a new year and a new release. Actually...THREE releases. A trifecta. I have stamps. I have paint. And...as of today I have printed tissue paper too. Thrilled to be able to round out my PaperArtsy collection with these new items, as I now have a total of 48 minis, 36 paints, 39 stamps sets, and ONE tissue paper. My goal has always been to have every item I create with PaperArtsy work seamlessly with all the prior releases. And for each product to truly represent my creative voice. I believe these new items meet both goals. Let's take a look...
Printed Tissue Paper by Seth Apter (PT06)
Price: RRP €4.20 +VAT
Size: 30" x 20" (67 x 47 cm) 4 per pack
Printed with permanent ink, will not bleed when you add wet media. To increase tissue strength, coat with Matte Glaze on a non stick surface, let dry, then apply a second layer of Matte Glaze to adhere tissue to your preferred surface (card, wood, paper, fabric etc). The more liquid the glue, the more easily the tissue will disappear.
Oh yeah!! Tissue. The perfect item for collage, journaling, and mixed media. When I first saw the final design for the tissue paper, I called it Bonkers. And I meant that in the best way possible. My tissue definitely reflects my love of layers and my belief that more is more.
All the elements included come from stamps in my PaperArtsy collection. But they have all been resized and layered for maximum impact. Grungy elements, random marks, circles, words, and phrases are all here. Take a look through the surface and see if your favorites are included. Or if you are missing any.
Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylic Paints
by Seth Apter
Price: RRP €5.26 +VAT Size:50ml (1.7 fl oz)
Matte, chalk paints suited to all surfaces. Quick dry, mix of coverage opacity (see the chevron on the bottle). Over 200 colours available across the PaperArtsy range. UV resistant, water based, indoor-outdoor, non-toxic, low VOC chalk paint. Our paint chemists have over 120 years experience between them, and are distinguished for their inimitable quality.
When the time comes to release new paints, I first think of what might be missing in and work with my current collection. Then I consider where I am at creatively at the time in terms of color love. And finally I think about paint properties that are important to me - for example translucent versus opaque and bright versus muted. Putting all that together led me to these four new colors which reflect my current focus on bolder and brighter as well as my love of translucent paints when creating layers.
It's no secret that I love rust and Rusty reflects the lighter, orange-flavored spectrum of rust. This color really pops on lighter backgrounds (as it is translucent) and looks incredible with a touch of my Green Patina paint for that weathered and distressed look.
Olive is a bright yet soft green with yellow undertones. It has a bit of a 70s vibe to me. It adds an earthy tone to this palette but in a very vibrant way. It pairs sooooo well with purples like my Spanish Mulberry and Purple Majesty.
Tomato is red. Red red. The kind of red that adds a pop to just about every other color. It is equally at home in a vintage piece as in a bright, jeweled tone work. I love it with the bright orange of Smoked Paprika and the zest of Key Lime - both of which are also translucent.
I think of Kiwi Gold as a secret sauce. That Ochre yellow color that looks good as a glaze on anything and everything. It is the perfect fourth in this set of new colors as it works so well with the other three.
All four colors in this set were chosen to be able to work together. Depending upon the mixes and layers, you can get a wide variety of surface tones. Of course they also play well with other colors too.
Seth Apter Red Rubber Mini Stamps
Price: RRP €4.90 +VAT
Size: generally credit card (ish) size images
All stamps are individually trimmed onto cling foam
My new minis are all about grungy details and elements. Use them to create layers in your work or as abstract focal points. There is a strong, linear component to most of the designs but they are created to bring a distressed, imperfect, organic, and broken feel to your work.
Naturally I have created some grungy artwork using my new stamps, tissue, and paint. They all work well together and in endless combinations. I especially love how the black elements from the tissue contrast so strongly with the brighter colors of the paint.
I took a different approach for my samples in this release as you will see below. I wanted to show how these grungy stamps could be used in ways that might appeal to those of you who may not lean toward the grungy side. I went clean (at least by my standards LOL), colorful, and back to basics. Happy though that Leandra provided some samples for the grunge lovers as you will see below.
