Category: paper cutting

Patrick Cabral, in Manila, does some pretty awesome papercutting. See more at his Instagram account:  instagram.com/darkgravity/

via Strictly Paper.

This piece of paper-cut lusciousness, by Bovey Lee, is one of the 100 shown in a recent blog post at Web Designer Depot. I’ve mentioned some of these artists before (Peter Callesen and Su Blackwell in particular), but the image list is impressive. I’ve listed links to other paper-cut artists in this earlier post.

Well, the title of the post says it all. I love the hand-mixer legs. If you’ve got all the cooking done, go on and whip up this centerpiece for Thanksgiving.

Click on the title of the post or the image at left for links via Creative Techs Tips to the original PDF with printable turkey parts and some truly amusing Google-translations from the Japanese to English. To illustrate just how amusing, here’s step 1:

“Each component crop. The center of the fuselage parts, maintenance hatch Crop Please be sure to complete the hole this will be a great help to me.
Put a finger, please ensure that the size of a peach but also slots in the slit, please remember to put a slit.“

via Boing Boing via Make

Shawn Sheehy’s pop-up artist books are pretty cool. Take a look. (Beautifully designed website, too.)

I got an email yesterday which included some images of really wonderful paper cut art, and the following message:

“Entries for an art contest at the Hirshorn [sic] Modern Art Gallery in DC. The rule was that the artist could use only one sheet of paper.”

Huh??? The images are incredible but the message is a load of hooey.

This image, and the others in that email, are from the website of Peter Callesen, an awesome paper artist. I’m tempted to show you some more of his work, but just click on the link in this paragraph, or the title of this post, and go see for yourself.

Art competition indeed! Humph.

Laura Cooperman’s papercuts are simply incredible. Click on the title of this post, or the image at left, to look at her website.

Thanks to Paper Forest for the link.

Here is one of my ideas for a cut paper design. The cut paper version will be at least 11″ x 17″; that’s the size of the drafting film upon which I lettered the poem. The idea came from that original scrap on the left (one of those scraps I saved the other day when I was cleaning out the box), which is a bit of calligraphy about 3″ x 6″. The scrap is at least 11 years old. See, I just knew it would come in handy one day!

How this is going to fulfill the requirement that there be foreground, middle ground and background I haven’t worked out yet. I suppose I could make a case that the large leaves are foreground, the lettering middle ground, and the background — which will be also cut paper on a smaller scale and maybe stick out through the large-leaf areas. I don’t know yet.

I bought a 100-pack of #11 X-acto blades about 15 years ago and I still have 3/4 of them in the box, but that’s changing rapidly. Cutting drafting film dulls the blades quickly!