Here Goes . . .

Well, here it is! At last I have taken note, after much telling, and am starting a blog, yee ha! Whether it will entertain, amuse or enlighten, who knows.
   Most, if not all, I put on here will be about papercutting, my one and only talent, I hope!

   A bit of general background on papercutting before I begin, and it is very general as I am new to the art and there are many more wonderful papercutters out there who know more.

   I only discovered this creative medium about 3 years ago after playing about cutting wood up, too messy and you had to us a machine. My tea was sawdust flavoured and I couldn't hear the "Archers"! Something quieter minus sawdust was needed so scalpel and paper eventually popped to mind. After years of painting and being too scaredy to try something different here we are doing something totally different!
   Cutting paper has had to make me re-think how I work. Everything is drawn as a silhoutte, though I do then add detail into this, text I do in reverse as I work on the back of black card, rubbing out pencil lines means tearing the fiddly bits I've cut and it's one more picture in the bin! and I have a full bin as it is.

   Most of my pieces are inspired, sometimess in a very loose way, by the natural world. Trees, birds, leaves tend to appear everso frequently, but I'm not always so good at realism, and it means i can use a bit, or a lot, of artistic license!