I originally posted this last night, but I wasn’t happy with my color choices. I deleted the post this morning and took the image down so I could play with the colors some more.
I prefer these much more. I don’t have the option of any color I want, I can only use the colors of paper that are manufactured and sold at my local craft store.
There are places online where you can have any color paper you want created for you, but it is incredibly expensive and the volume you need to order would be a ten year supply for me.
For those of you on my e-mailing list who saw the original image, I hope you like this one better. I think the contrast is more suited to the image.
I’m also trying to use up some odd sized frames. This one is 6.5″ x 7.5″
I also slightly changed the title.
So many changes…
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It’s hunting season here again. All the side roads leading to my house are a kind of Mecca for hunters because the fields around here surround a wildlife preserve with a large deer population.
I hear all their excuses, but my problem isn’t with the hunters, it’s with the fact that I don’t like it when people take joy from killing.
Most will say they don’t take joy in it, and then show off all their photos or display something on their wall with pride.
This had many titles, mainly taken from Smiths lyrics, but the turn of the nursery rhyme seemed more fitting.
Go get ’em piggy…
Last update before I run this stuff down to the Waxwing for their upcoming Mini Art show this Friday.
First off is the show poster for the Dorian Taj / Prichard / Honda Pavarotti show at the Hideout in Chicago. Initially they asked if they could use one of my old images to make their own poster, but after showing them a few ideas, they asked if I could just make the poster. I re-cut out a flag and added it to my papercut from last week. The original image with the scythe was very influenced by old Soviet propaganda posters, so I decided to go with the same idea for the poster. It has already been pointed out to me that the font I used bears no resemblance to actual Russian text, so… no need to remind me again.
Last week I had a conversation about my papercuts involving buried people, so I made two more. The first one is more symbolically buried and the second one is literal. I wanted to add a lot more detail to the second one, but the tiny size prevented me from doing it. Perhaps I’ll make a larger version of it later on.
I never had a chance to re-make the papercut with the crib that I ruined last week.
I still may attempt to do it again soon.
This started out with a blacksmith, anvil and sacred hearts, then it morphed into children at a door step.
I can’t explain how these things happen.
I’ll leave it up to you whether they are offering or asking.
This a variation of a much large design I made about a year ago, but never cut out, for a friends birthday.
It’s pretty small 4 3/4″ x 3 1/4″
It’s not based on anything other than the standard ‘what’s under the bed’ thoughts everyone has at some point in their life.
UPDATE: this got ruined in the framing process. I’ll re-make it later and probably slightly different.
This is the second small papercut I’ve done for the Waxwing show in a few weeks. It is completely based on Persephone mythology.
Not much else to say about it.
So, there you go.
I decided to experiment using vellum again. Basically, this is two papercuts with a piece of vellum between them.
This is only the third time I’ve tried this.
More practice required…
The idea and the title comes from Tangled Up In Blue by Bob Dylan.