Mad Cutter

Experimenting with a foggy atmosphere on paper. I find tracing paper does the trick.
Fog is one of my favorite weather moods to go out in nature.
And I know now we have ravens and crows living around our house because I listened to the difference of their calls online. Ravens have a much deeper tone and they communicate and chat with so many different sounds and throaty clicks. Fascinating.

Colored paper and tracing paper from

Here’s a little magic and an old papercut from a few years back for today’s prompt for challenge. On the second slide you can see my digital version of it in color.

Lately I’m being very inspired by Ontario Lake behind our house. Still experimenting how I can show these beautiful blue and turquoise and green layers from the lake on paper.

Three times I sighted a fox that lives in the area that I go for walks often, right on the ravine. I imagine he must have the most beautiful view onto the lake from up there.

Black Scherenschnitt paper on indigo dyed Japanese Kozo Paper and silver shiny paper.

This year I’ve been experimenting with cutting colored paper a lot. It feels strange and beautiful and sometimes doubting as I’m used to the black and white paper cutting and figuring out negative space. But now color. And then I was wondering if that would interfere with my consistent style. But I think evolving is good and why not mix it up? I still like consistency but maybe it shows through my style no matter the medium.
Also, I am heavily influenced by Lotte Reiniger’s work and that was black paper on translucent white or colored paper. And I wanted to stay true to that.

Do you like the colored ones better or the same than my black papercuts?

Day 16 from Jessica Elena 🌻 Playful Art challenge. I realized I never posted a still of the colorful papercut commission “Endless Night” I made last year.
Here it is. ✨ 🌒 🏔️

I’m going to explore more colored papercuts and different papers to cut this year.

Yummy! Day 14’s prompt for Jessica Elena 🌻 Playful Art challenge.
This is the mouthwatering macaroons and ice cream with little macaroons on top from NADÈGE | Delivery Available 🚚 ☀️🍦I did this papercut before Covid. Seems like a long time ago and one of my first papercuts.

It’s Day 12 of by Jessica Elena 🌻 Playful Art and the prompt is COZY. So here’s a Fall cutout I made with a sleepy squirrel who is in need of warm mittens and wooly hats. Did you know squirrels sleep 12-15 hours daily?