Papercutting Workshop for Beginners

Last night I held my first ever Papercutting Workshop at The Make Lounge in Barnsbury Street, Islington.  I have to admit I was pretty nervous about it - having never done anything like that before.  But as soon as I started talking about papercutting, all the anxiety went away and everyone just got down to work.  There were 10 ladies altogether - some came with a few ideas and some came with no idea what to expect and no idea where to start.

I had produced a few templates for them to work from as well.  A blank piece of paper is a scary thing to be confronted with especially when you don't really know how to approach the drawing as a papercutting.  It was interesting for me as a teacher to see what problems were thrown up to the beginners.  Actually they were the very same problems that I had struggled with myself as a beginner, but had forgotten.  

Anyway, after 3 hours or so, they all managed to produce at least one 15cm sq papercutting - and some of them produced more.  The photos are below - I think you'll see that some of the results are really fantastic for beginners!  I hope they all enjoyed themselves.