Windmill papercut - wip photos

I'm making good progress with the cutting today.  

I enjoy this stage where it's emerging from the paper.

Windmill papercut - initial drawing

My good friend Tania reminded me today that my blog was woefully neglected!

She's absolutely right of course - life seems to have taken over recently - like getting all three of my children healthy and at school on the same days! That's an ongoing battle that I'm determined to win!

Anyway, despite having my oldest son at home ill today, I still managed to get cracking on a drawing for a new piece.  As you can see, it's another of my cross-sections, but this time I thought I'd do something a little different - hence a windmill!

This is the reverse of the papercut - the right side is black as is usual for me.

Can't wait to get cutting this one - will keep you updated with lots of wip photos.

Windmill papercut drawing

Size A3


PS: If you're wondering what's happening with the unfinished piece from the previous post - well, I'm just really not sure about it.  It just doesn't feel right to me.  I never throw anything away and may come back to it at some point - but for now it's shelved :(
These things happen.

Folk Art Cockerel, House and Flowers - a new papercut

I thought I'd show you the very beginnings of my newest papercut.  As is usual for me, I can't really tell whether I'm going to like it yet, but I will persist and see how it turns out.  I'm a little worried that the cockerel looks nicer as a drawing than it will as a papercut.  I need to finish the bird to be sure.  

Here are the images from the reverse and correct sides.

Natasha Newton (The Blackbird Sings) blog feature

Over the past few months I've been answering some interview questions for the wonderfully talented Natasha Newton.  She's written an entire feature about me on her blog, which is a very big deal for me and a huge honour.

Here's the link to Natasha's blog and the papercutting feature.  Enjoy the read!

http://theblackbirdsings.typepad.com/the_blackbird_sings/

Two Birds © Natasha Newton

Alphabet Birds Papercut (Completed)

Here's the finished piece.  I decided that from a design point of view it was better to cut away the border and also the ground with the birds as well.  I'm pretty happy with the way it turned out - especially for a fairly quick papercut - about 8 hours of cutting in total. I've been playing around with it in photoshop - it looks nice in blue too.

Click on the image for a larger view.

Alphabet Birds Papercut

We've been getting loads of huge magpies in a garden lately and they've been scaring off the little chaps.  So I bought a bird feeder to encourage the tiddly ones back in and I've hung it from our apple tree.  It's been a very popular addition and so far this week we've spotted blue tits, great tits, wrens, robins, sparrows, blackbirds, jays and even a woodpecker and a fantastic emerald green parakeet! (I know!!!).  Anyway, I was feeling inspired by all the wildlife in my garden, so this newest piece is for the little guys in my apple tree. 


So this is the drawing for the new papercut.  You'll notice that all the letters are in reverse and drawn back to front.  This is because the drawing is on the wrong side of the paper.  

The size is A4. 

... and here is the top section cut, as seen from the correct side.  I'm not sure whether I'll keep the frame or not, so for now it stays.  It also keeps the whole thing a bit more stable during the cutting stage.

Friendship Papercut

This is my newest papercut and actually the first thing I've done in ages.  The school holidays mean that everything goes on hold for about a month!  Anyway, all my children are finally back at school which means that a good period of productivity should begin! This one is available as an A4 print in my Etsy and Folksy shops.

If you're in the mood for a little game, try and spot ....

7 birds

3 butterflies

1 ladybird

1 caterpillar

1 beetle

1 coily wiggly worm

1 dragonfly

1 grasshopper

1 bee

1 rhinobug

and 1 spider!