Cut Paper Designs & How To Rock Them

Cut paper projects are clean and easy.

Where it came from:

- We talked about reduction printmaking, reducting the print area. You will be reducing the image area with each cut paper layer

-Stencils. Many of you have used stencils or have thought about including stencils in your artwork. This is a natural carry-over.

What you need:

3 values of paper (light, medium, dark)

x-acto knife

cutting board

glue

pencil

image you want to create

Step 1:

Find an image to use, or make your own.

Step 2:

Change the photo to black and white. "Posterize" the image down to 3 color levels. This can be done in Adobe Photoshop.

Step 3:

Pick up the middle value paper. Cut out any place that will be lighter. In the image bellow, I cut out the places where white would show through. Glue down the image onto the lightest value paper.

Step 4:

Cut out every place that is not a dark shadow. Glue the pieces down onto your artwork.