Friday, April 6, 2018

Red riding hood and wolf, Fairy tale papercuts in honor of Hans Christian Anderson, adult art display, 4/2/18


We did these paper cuts in honor of Hans Christian Andersen. His birthday was April 2nd. He wrote lots of fairy tales but also made papercuts - just using scissors and paper. 

Take a piece of copy paper folded into quarters. Snip up into the paper   In the long fold, cut up around the figure, whether it be the wolf or Ridinghood. Return to a frame that you will now cut around.  You can see that some people cut around the frame and some people simply cut their figure out. You can also pierce into the paper rather than cutting up into it, and cut around the frame.  You will return to your starting point. If you wanted your figure to stay as one big sheet, then you have to make sure that there is a connection rather than cutting the figure off. I did a demo of   the red Ridinghood figure but I was so confused as to what I was doing that it really didn't look like anything other than like a tree. Someone was able to follow along with me and that image came out looking much like the tree that I did . Then I made a drawing of what it should look like very roughly and someone else did their cutting from that. It is placed against a green background so there is a green Ridinghood rather than red Ridinghood. 

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