Once I Was Bending The Tops Of The Trees (wood)A month ago I made a papercut that was inspired very much by a friend. It meant a lot to me so I wanted to keep it but I also wanted to share it with them. Normally I paint my papercuts on top of blank paper. I will usually keep these so I have some sort of keep sake for the things I give away. In this instance the background paper didn’t seem to be enough so I had the idea of re-painting it over wood. It worked out very well and she was happy to receive it. Since then I have made 5 more. This is the most recent. In the past month I have also learned what not to do otherwise I could say that I’d made 9 of these. Water based poly-acrylic on top of water based spray paint doesn’t work well. You get a big messy blur. I hope to post more of these in the future. Unfortunately, since they are extremely glossy, sometimes they don’t photograph or scan very well.

It's wonderful and scary knowing what's aliveSecond to last coat. The last coat is kind of pricey acid free archival paint. I had success last month painting one on to wood, so I may try that again with some or all of these.
Guess we’ll see. Anyway, I’m designing, but not cutting, anything new until I have all of these framed and paired with their colored paper counterparts. Hopefully that goes smoothly.
We shall see. Maybe I’ll post photos of that as well.