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.
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Second 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.