My Paper Cloud

My knife shouts keep cutting PAPER!!!

Hello readers.... its been quite some time since I have blogged my papercuts.. its been a crazy time. Shifting back to my motherland - Indian from the Samba land - Brazil and then again to the Snow land USA. 

 My mind is going crazy and my hands are literally freezing as I start to write.. side effects of not being able to do so for such a long time I guess. There's soooo much to share with you... btw did some good papercuts..will share one by one :) .... hang on!!!

The Frozen Land of USA 

Lets start with my favorite one....  

My 1st custom paper-cutting project ....YAYYYY!!! :)

I made some good friends in Brazil and one of them asked me to do two A4 size paper-cuts.

One of goddess Durga and the other of Goddess Lakshmi.

At first I was really scared as I realized these are NOT GOING TO BE EASY..... they are goddesses... really really intricate and detailed figures... but then that's my thing u know !!!  :) :) 

So I started off with some inspiration.. gathering wall papers , paintings, sketches and whatnot. These pictures looked so beautiful and the design so complicated that automatically I was sure I had to do this.... It would be so much fun...

 So I sketched out my final design on a sheet of tracing paper placed it over a white artist quality 120 gsm paper and began with the papercut .

I started with the element that intimidated me the most..... The Tiger. Well Goddess Durga is mostly seen on a Lion but I was specifically asked to include a Tiger instead.

 In any process of creating an artwork that involves a creature what I understand is that eyes are the most difficult part. Eyes are the soul of that piece... they convey the emotion and the existence of life in that artwork. 

So I started cutting the bottom part of the tiger just to get my hands flowing and then got on to cut the eyes of the Tiger with all the Patience I could gather. Came out all sparkling, didn't they??
 I moved on with more confidence once the eyes were done.

I had to be really careful while working as the connecting areas were very delicate.  I worked on the inside lines 1st as I carved the design out , leaving the outlines intact to hold the design together till the end of the process.

It worked !!!
If u do it bit by bit...... It Works :) 

The last step to my work was to cut all the outlines and give the piece its personality.. a definition.

Here's how the final paper-cut looks !!!

Stay tuned for the next part....

Keep Paper-cutting !!!