Papercut Landscapes Review & GIVEAWAY

Turn your favorite land and seascapes into original artwork! In Papercut Landscapes self-taught paper cutting expert Sarah King shares how she creates her delightful hand-cut paper art. She developed her unique style while looking for a way to make affordable art for her home. Her lively designs capture scenes of the British coast and countryside in textured paper and card. From simple sketch to paper cutting and layering, she guides you step-by-step through all techniques. Use basic materials such as a pencil, eraser, craft knife or scalpel, a piece of paper and a cutting surface. Her tool of choice is a swivel-headed craft knife. Start with the smaller warm-up exercises. If it's your first time using a craft knife, you'll need to practice. Abundant visuals grab the reader's attention and make for good, clear instruction. Work your way through 9 gorgeous projects that come with full size templates - just photocopy. A typical project layout is shown below as are a couple of the finished designs. The complete table of contents is listed below. The 128 page paperback was released on March 5, 2019 by Search Press. A digital version is also available. Get your copy below!

C O N T E N T S

INTRODUCTION

MATERIALS

GETTING COMFORTABLE

TECHNIQUES

ADDING COLOUR

HALF-HOUR TEMPLATES

PAPERCUTTING THE LANDSCAPE

Basking Balloons

Mountain Scenery

Health by the Sea

Love Blooms

Caravan Friends

Harbour Arches

Moors Sheep

Waterfall

Early Morning Milk

FINDING YOUR VOICE

SKETCHING & SIMPLIFYING

ADAPTING PHOTOGRAPHS

STYLE

DISPLAYING YOUR WORK

INDEX

Using A Knife Freestyle

First we are going to practise using a knife. We’ll use a fixed blade scalpel, a swivel knife and a finger knife in turn to make some test cuts on a piece of paper. If this is the first time you have used a knife, I recommend you try some freestyle cutting – that is, without following any lines – on a sheet of copy paper before you head straight into a template. You'll practice cutting freestyle, cutting straight lines, cutting corners, cutting gentle waves, cutting changing shapes, cutting large and small circles.

Cutting The Silhouette

Now that we’ve practised cutting straight and curvy lines and circles, it’s time to try a picture. One of the most common questions from new papercutters is ‘Which bits do I cut out?’ In this book, you will cut away all the coloured spaces from the templates, leaving the white lines of the drawing intact. The result is a ‘silhouette cut’, to which we can add colour at a later stage.

Adding Colour

When you first start adding colour to your work, you will become over-excited about your amazing new skills, and rightly so. You’ll add colours to everything, convinced that the viewer will be so impressed with your technical ability with a knife that they will fall in love with your art on the spot. But here’s the thing. Choosing the right colours for landscapes is as important as being able to cut and fix them! In short, your colours need planning.

Half-hour Templates

Many papercutters tell me they are scared to add coloured infills because they don’t want to risk ruining their beautiful silhouette papercut. So I've included two templates specifically for you to practise with, which will take no more than half an hour to cut out, and give you lots of scope to practise some of the skills covered further in this book. Experiment with fewer – or more – colours of your choice.

Health by the Sea project - 6 pages start to finish (above & below).

Harbour Arches design by Sarah King.

Love Blooms design by Sarah King.

Framed design by Sarah King.

Papercut Landscapes ISBN-13 : 978-1782215660 is available worldwide at Search Press. Search Press is an independent, multi award-winning, family owned art and craft book publisher. Check out their unique catalog at Search Press. Search Press has generously offered to giveaway a copy! One winner will be selected at random. Open until February 21, 2021. Canada & USA only. Good luck!

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