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Negative Space: The Art of Papercutting
Papercutting is a long loved art of Chinese culture. I have always been fascinated by it. Old PoPos and YeYes sit on the sides of roads and in malls with a cart full of dangling, delicate red paper. With the tiniest pair of scissors, they can render you a tiny red version of whatever you ask. They find joy in small children and will often gift a small paper cutting to them. I remember treasuring a tiny red rabbit made out of that velvety but delicate paper. Some of the art is layered, to make a unique and 3D setting. Some of the art is meant to be a shadow art, complete when a light is shone on it. But my favourite type are the complex circles where a full scene is created, the paper so full of holes that a single errant finger could rip the whole scene away.
By Melissa in the Blue3 years ago in Humans
Creating (and Sharing) My Happiness!
Spotting a pair of scissors has always brought me excitement and taken me down a long, wonderful road full of memories of my creations. My grandmother began having “Goodtimes at Grannies” on the last Sunday of every month shortly before I was born. During those Sundays my Grannie would have arts and crafts planned for all of her grandchildren; she even set us up our very own craft room! I spent countless hours in that craft room and while it may be a walk-in pantry today, I still cherish it as the incubator that fostered the artist in me. My Grannie has kept (almost) every piece of art made for her by her grandchildren. My childhood portfolio may not be as impressive as my college portfolio, but it’s a gift to have that I can look back at.
By Kennedy Reed3 years ago in Humans
Repetition: A Kaleidoscope Of Color Revealed
Knot the thread. Pull it through the needle. Check the pattern. Begin stitching. That's it - all that's required. I watch as small tiny Xs fill the blank fabric before me. Colors bleed together - blue like the sky above, white like unblemished snow, copper like clay from the ground. In my head, I'm already done. This is just redundancy to me for a tapestry already formed. To anyone else though, all that shows is just a singular letter on repeat.
By Susanna Grace Toppert3 years ago in Humans
A single one just doesn’t cut it
I have this problem (according to other people at least): I find pretty much everything interesting! That might not sound like a problem at first but maybe you will arrive at the same conclusion when I tell you a bit about me and the scissors in my life. There are four of them. Five if I count the kitchen scissors that I mostly use to cut open spice pouches (which is really not that thrilling) and six if I count the gardening shears that are mostly unused, because we sadly don’t have a garden (yet), so I will leave these scissors in the drawer for the moment.
By Zora Kastner3 years ago in Humans
The Country Cottage
I’m building a dollhouse! Not for one of my granddaughters as most people would expect, but for me. My goal is to create a showpiece as opposed to a child’s toy, something that will display a glimpse of life in a fantasy world. A beautiful country cottage created for an elven inhabitant. As time goes on, other mythical beings may join the elf.
By Heather Macdonald3 years ago in Humans
Weaving a Life’s Story
Beginnings I was eight years old. A Swedish couple living across the street from our Connecticut home made a living hand weaving. The attic of their historic house was packed with floor looms threaded with bright colors in various stages of fabric production. They used mohair and other expensive yarns for scarves and blankets, but also less expensive materials such as durable plastic strips and strong cotton yarn for some of the rugs they made. They were very kind, showing me how to make butterfly skeins of mohair on my fingers to save the small, leftover scraps of yarn they had cut off their looms with scissors. Skeins saved in this way could be pulled out and used without tangling the colorful yarn.
By Natalie Wilkinson3 years ago in Humans
Nightwatch Series
As a multidisciplinary artist, I create sculptures that vary in style from the realistic figurative to the abstract and my personal process of creating is engaging, inspiring and educational. I have created life-sized and larger sculptures of people for institutions, private commissions and personal artwork. With over 40 years of experience in creating sculptures, I enjoy working from the fine details of a sculpture to engineering the larger scale monuments while truly preserving and eliciting the character and the life of the people that are honored.
By Yossi Govrin3 years ago in Humans
Rock, Paper, Scissors
Humans are remarkable things. As I sit upon my bed, classic rock thundering around my room I have cornered myself in, under siege by leather and paper and scissors and glue. This is my time for meditation. Away from the doom and gloom of a world gone mad. The pandemic cannot touch me here. This is my temple.
By Ross Pelham Austin Lockhart3 years ago in Humans
Happiness is a New Painting
I read a meme on Facebook the other day, “Do something every day that makes you feel glad to be alive.” I thought back over my life for the answer. Whether I was doing well or down in the dumps, had money or was scrambling to meet my bills, the one thing I did that always made me feel glad to be alive was paint.
By Banning Lary3 years ago in Humans
Art is my Therapy
When the paint brush is in my right hand, moving down for a stroke of paint off my wooden palette, with a blank canvas in front of me is where I feel I most belong. Art is my therapy, it brings my mind to ease, and fills my heart with joy. I love to express my feelings through my artwork and to draw about things that are important to me. Art challenges me to access the deepest roots of my creativity. I enjoy adding lots of bright colors to make the artwork really pop and mix matching light and dark shades for contrast. I love to see the smiles on my friends and family’s faces when I gift them with artwork. Art is something so meaningful, I leave parts of myself in every piece that I create, it is the perfect gift.
By Vanessa Marin3 years ago in Humans
Paper Potential
My passion for paper started in the 5th grade when I learned about origami. My love for paper dolls blossomed into an obsession with origami and the area around me everywhere I went became littered with folded shapes. Boxes and butterflies, frogs and rabbits made of any kind of paper I could get my hands on, be it loose-leaf, magazine, or pizza flyer. A whole world opened up to me in which paper was no longer a two-dimensional word delivery method in books, or the bland, lined paper I doodled on more often than I did schoolwork. Now it was a medium for creating three-dimensional structures and tiny worlds that populated my imagined stories.
By Sasha Lewis3 years ago in Humans