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A Stenciled Screen Door

Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home : Episode KIT-212 -- More Projects »
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Figure A

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Figure B
Artist Edie Stockstill thinks that artists should consider screen doors as a creative outlet just as often as their wood and glass counterparts. She painted a special screen door using stencil letters and then added cross-stitched roses. Here's the procedure she recommends:
  1. Work with the screen before it's on the door, and then have a professional install it.
  2. To create durable stencils, use computer-generated letters. Take them to a copy store (on disk or hard copy) and have them copied onto acetate. Using a cutting pad and an extra sharp knife such as an X-acto blade, cut a rectangle around each letter, and then cut the letter out to form a stencil.
  3. Tape the acetate stencils to the screen in the proper positions.
  4. Dip a foam stencil brush into acrylic paint and apply it over the stencil, as shown (figure A). "Use real light pressure and an up-and-down motion," says Stockstill.
  5. Cross-stitch flowers on screen (figure B). Have a professional install the screen in the doorframe.

Also in this Episode
Kitty Bartholomew: You're Home : Episode KIT-212
•Reverse Painting
•Turn a Door Into a Window
•Make a Shoebox Window Box
•A Stenciled Screen Door
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