My Own Paper Cut Designs

     I found some designs i like from the internet and drew parts of them onto white paper creating my own design. I then cut through the white paper and the dark plum coloured paper, creating two stentils. I put yellow card behind this stencil, and I think the two colours contrast really nicely.

This is another advantage of doing the cut outs. You get a beautiful stencil at the end, which could be used for other techniques such as screen printing. Here I have backed it onto black card, The effect is not as nice as the coloured one, so I could try and experiment more with it.

This design was made from the pieces that i cut out of the original image. I have arranged them differently only a lilac piece of card. I quite like this effect because its the same colour in different shades. It has a neutral, pleasant look to it.  I really enjoyed doing these paper cuts because from doing one, you can create numerous pieces of work.

I done the same with this design. I do like this one better because the pattern is more intricate and detailed. The colours in this one relate more to some of my previous work, however the contrast isnt quite as strong as my other cut out.

This is my stencil I created from this cut out. I have placed it up side down on a piece of black card. I think I will create some screen prints with this one too.

This third cut out was created with silver shiny paper put onto a bright pink background. I do like the effect of the shiny paper, as you can kind of see a reflection of me taking the photograph of this peice of work. This image could be inproved by adding some more detail.

This second piece of work was created from the stencil that was produced from the original cut out, and I added some simple, unique designs to make it look more detailed and the colours I have used work really well together in my opinion.

This is an image I made from the two previous paper cuts. The brown paper gives a lovely contrast against the blue and green. Producing all of these images has got me thinking about my final piece, and that I could use this technique in the work I show at the exhibition.