Chess Papercut
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ellerPart 1, Shadow theater, the process
Part 2, Papercuts and storytelling
Part 3, Shadow art, paper art
Part 4, Palaeolithic Animation
Part 5, More Shadows and Silhouettes
The little silhouette series goes on! This is again my own work: a fast one I did last night when I couldn't sleep. (Tidy this is not...) The material is stuff I grabbed: one of these small note paper thingies (you know, the ones that come in those cubes of, like, 1000 sheets), mounted on a white index card (A6). I'm showing it not so much for its intrinsic artistic value, but because I experimented a bit with the technique, and this is the first time I'm incorporating value gradients (created with watercolor sprinkles) in papercut work. One thing I learned is that these little note paper squares are not papercut paper. They don't just take any opportunity to tear (which is to be expected from ordinary paper, but they deform under stress. I ended up with a piece that was decidedly not a square anymore... which caused problems in the end, when gluing inevitably led to creases because the lower edge had miraculously elongated. (It's magic!) Still, I kind of like the effect with the gradients, and I'll definitely do that again - preferably in a more controlled manner. :) This was fun!
Part 2, Papercuts and storytelling
Part 3, Shadow art, paper art
Part 4, Palaeolithic Animation
Part 5, More Shadows and Silhouettes
The little silhouette series goes on! This is again my own work: a fast one I did last night when I couldn't sleep. (Tidy this is not...) The material is stuff I grabbed: one of these small note paper thingies (you know, the ones that come in those cubes of, like, 1000 sheets), mounted on a white index card (A6). I'm showing it not so much for its intrinsic artistic value, but because I experimented a bit with the technique, and this is the first time I'm incorporating value gradients (created with watercolor sprinkles) in papercut work. One thing I learned is that these little note paper squares are not papercut paper. They don't just take any opportunity to tear (which is to be expected from ordinary paper, but they deform under stress. I ended up with a piece that was decidedly not a square anymore... which caused problems in the end, when gluing inevitably led to creases because the lower edge had miraculously elongated. (It's magic!) Still, I kind of like the effect with the gradients, and I'll definitely do that again - preferably in a more controlled manner. :) This was fun!
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