Chinese Carrey. I remember when I was small, I used to do paper cutting at my grandmom’s house. It’s my aunt hobby to cut down every cute figurines and paste them on a scrapbook. The little me just helped, oops no, :) I would say played around, with the cut pieces and messed up the table eventually. :) When Chinese New Year approaching, I saw people pasting the red paper cuttings on the wall.
They were finely cut, animal, flowers and Chinese characters symbolizing luck and prosperity were the subjects of the traditional art works. Nowadays, we could still see the work but only on the exhibition. You see, how cute the boy and the buffalo are! Sharing with you more Chinese paper cutting pictures. Like this: Like Loading...
Lorraine Nam. Talented Lorraine Nam will soon be graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design. Cut paper is her preferred medium. She creates such fine detail... it causes me to look and look again, all the while imagining a story that lies within the piece. Rice Husband Asphyxiation She tells me she doesn't have any plans for after graduation, other than moving to New York. "... the rest is up to hard work and luck, I guess! " I think the lines of Lorraine's bold and honest self portrait speak of her determination to succeed. Visit Lorraine's website and blog to see more of her intriguing work. Spring Letter. I just bought this gorgeous paper cut on Etsy.
This is likely to be the first letter of the new baby's name -- and if not, it's still the first letter of mine. At dinner last night there was a lot of animated discussion about the arrival of spring. Our friend Bonnie showed Luke where it said "First Day of Spring" on her calendar. "It's going to be spring at 8:22 am tomorrow," she told him. He was suitably impressed. This morning when he woke up, his first words were, "It's spring today! " Further discussion revealed that he'd expected to see green grass, leaves on the trees, and flowers in full bloom. I almost sprang for this one, too: The artist, who isn't named on the site, works with rice paper in the traditional Chinese style and has almost two hundred paper cuts, some of them incredibly intricate, in her shop.
Suzy Taylor. Cut Paper Art by Sara Burgess. From Sara Burgess, intricate paper works cut by hand. "At a time when we see more and more work come from vector files and lasers, it's refreshing to see lovely and intricate works created simply by the fine negative patterns in paper created by x-acto blades. " (Click the images below for full sized images) Traditional. Botanical alphabet.