More Papercutting

Hello to everyone~

Recently I posted this photo on instagram:

'Alice playing Croquet'
instagram user: @ppp_pancake

It is an Alice in Wonderland papercutting that I have created, and some people wanted to see some more of my papercutting work..... Sooooo I am going to post some of the step-by-step photos which I took at different stages of the papercut~

Enjoy~~~~~~

Thank you for looking, stay tuned for some more Papercutting adventures x

Paper Lace

Wanna see what I did today?

 

Hello, this blog post is going to be all about papercutting. I love paper cutting, one of my old GCSE art teachers introduced me to Rob Ryan's work a long time ago and since then I have been addicted to paper cutting. Below is some of his work but if you want to see some more check out http://www.misterrob.co.uk/ I could look through his work for hours!

At the moment I am working on a 'Fairytales' art project, this week I took photos of lots and lots of lace, because I though that the patterns would suit my 'fairytales' art project quite well.

A photo of the original lace~

 

Anyway, I had the idea of making my own paper-lace! It sounded like a good idea at the time, but I didn't really think about how long it would take. Making only an A4 paper size piece of paper lace took  me nearly 5 hours!! I took an iPhone shot every hour because I though that it would be fun to instagram them every  hour so that my followers could see how it was going. (@ppp_pancake).

1 hour



2 hours



3 hours

4 hours



4 and a half hours

 

 

I sometimes think that I like things when they look unfinished, I'm not sure why but I think that I prefer the 3hour photo.... what do you think?

Paper cutting is not that difficult but you need to be very delicate and have a LOT of patience! I had to do soooo many experiments before I started this piece because the bits of paper kept breaking off- (and I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to papercutting!)

 

If you want to try some paper cutting yourself, just practice and be patient~

All you need is a craft knife, a pencil, a rubber and the paper you want to cut! Then just let your imagination make a pattern...

 

Here are the final photos, I took them on a black background because I wanted them to look like the real lace photos (above). But now I realise that the colour backgrounds look a LOT better~~ I don't think that it's finished yet- maybe I could carry it on and see who much of the page I can fill??

 

 

 

 

I hope that you enjoyed the long post and my work~ if you have any questions about paper cutting just comment below....

Bye Everyone

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a quick first post ~~

Hello everyone~~~
(oh and if you are viewing this on an iPhone or other smartphone then you might want to click 'view web version' or the pictures will come out all squished and weird) 
 

I'm ppp_pancake, unfortunately I started this blog at a very busy time and so I haven't actually got anything to post at the moment, so while my blog is still in construction I just wanted to share a few of my Instagram photos with you all. If you want to follow me on Instagram my user name is @ppp_pancake.....



                 The White Rabbit ~ an ink drawing

Alice ~ a paper cutting





Flower book ~ a paper cutting book, inspired by Su Blackwell



As you may have guessed these all have an 'Alice in Wonderland' theme to them~ as 'fairytales' is the theme for my latest Art Project.....
I have just been on a FashionPhotography and Photoshop course, and I'm hoping to do an Alice/Fairytale themed Photo shoot very soon. And I promise to post some of my work here.... sooo stay tuned ..

 

(by the way, my images are waterwarked so don't even try to steal them muahahahha) 

Coming soon.....