/r/papercutting
A place to show off, ask questions about, discuss, and promote the most excellent art of paper cutting. It's an eclectic art and/or craft with centuries-old roots in Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Indonesia, and Mexican traditions. Given the popularity of stencils used in the graffiti art that became popular in the last few decades, papercutting is a now a vibrant, expressive, and often subversive art form found in DIY art shows and fine museums alike.
This is the place to post anything pertaining to papercutting: Original artwork, images of other artists' pieces, photographs that you need help turning into a papercut-friendly form, questions about useful materials and techniques, discussions about selling your work, and so on.
Some handy guidelines
- If your post an original piece that you made, put [OC] in the title.
- Mark questions and requests with a [?]
- If you post your own work, please let us know a bit about its construction - How many pieces or layers of paper did you use, is it from a drawing or from an edited photograph, did you hand-paint the tiny flowers in the corner or are you really that skilled with a blade?
- If you post a cut that is based on a photo or other such image, please link to the original image as well.
- If you post work made by someone else, mention their name and if possible provide a link to their homepage, etsy store, gallery, or whever it was you found the image. The more info the better.
This forum is for art in which cut paper itself is part of the final product (and not just as a canvas). There are other subreddits for stencil work and templates. Although if you think the stencil you cut is itself a piece of art that we need to see, then go for it. Here are some related subreddits:
- [Stencils](reddit.com/r/stencils)
- [Stencil Templates](reddit.com/r/stenciltemplates)
- [WTF Art](reddit.com/r/wtfart)
- [Learn Art](reddit.com/r/learnart)
- [Art Critique](reddit.com/r/artcrit)
- [Design](reddit.com/r/design)
- [Art](reddit.com/r/art)
/r/papercutting
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My latest piece. Hand cut during my vacations
11:12 UTC
My buddies parents new house, hand cut by me as moving in gift from him. A3, 120gsm cotton paper.
13:20 UTC
What’s your go to paper?
I’ve been experimenting with paper cuts for a while and want to know what paper other artists use. I haven’t found one I like yet.
04:22 UTC
What to do with pencil marks?
I've seen people use pencils to sketch and then cut on or around the sketch--which inevitably leaves pencil marks. Do people usually just turn the paper over to hide the pencil marks? It seems like it would be way too risky to try to erase all the pencil marks on a cut up paper, especially one for intricate designs.
04:26 UTC
Recent paper cut piece. Love it framed.
15:26 UTC
Stepmom titan frome SNK
17:06 UTC
Yujiro hanma from Baki😃
17:01 UTC
skull
20:19 UTC
If you sell online, how do you package your work?
I don't want to have to frame everything I might sell. Just wondering how you package your work if you sell online, eg Etsy?
12:57 UTC
is there a machine for simple straight cuts that is not a "paper cutter"?
I basically bought a paper cutter to cut bookmarks (350gsm paper) but I cant seem to cut them in a proper straight line, there is always some white left around or the line cuts some of the color.
Is there a machine that is not Cricut that can just cut straight lines electronically?
(I've seen things like brother scanncut but those aswell seem to be overkill)
11:22 UTC
whale
01:20 UTC
Another abstract papercut by me
14:46 UTC
rose
03:32 UTC
El Olivo, Guzman Studio, Papel Picado, 2023
My first time being featured in a exhibition. The cardstock is all one piece and the colored tissue paper is glued to add flair. Beatrice Vasquez is a major influence in my work.
13:41 UTC
paper cut
21:35 UTC
olmec
20:59 UTC
Cityscape
00:30 UTC
Watercolor and papercutting. Cutting process video
17:33 UTC
Tree cutout
04:05 UTC
Doing my uni project on crafting
Hi group,
I am conducting a questionnaire to understand the Crafting market in the UK as my enterprise session project at Durham University. I would really appreciate it if you could spare a couple of minutes to complete it and share it around. Thanks a lot!
Please find the questionnaire link below:
[https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/piGdDtao](https://freeonlinesurveys.com/s/piGdDtao?fbclid=IwAR0rfoYwlHDaDrVXvks6wqxFoCV7BuT3qBYyXBA5Uzm11lN0QU14P7vPhRs)
Cheers!
21:04 UTC
Dog Park Papercutting
23:03 UTC
Interfaith Ketubah Design by @friedart
23:00 UTC
Manzanita Bark
23:57 UTC
Translating photos to paper cut art
I have been working on "papercutting" art, designing images in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and cutting them on a Cricut. Some of these are simple 2 or 3 color layered images, but does anyone have any reliable methods of translating photos into layered paper cut art?
01:07 UTC