This week's word prompt for
FANCY.
I had just been thinking of the many
beautiful, colorful and fancy butterflies
we are having lately.
We finally got some rain,
so the birds and butterflies
are loving it as much as we are.
This butterfly is made from a
very delicate and extremely thin paper cut out.
It was part of a larger design that I cut it away from.
I just glued it to the watercolor paper inchie.
It was so delicate I could barely handle it
without it getting crumpled.
A friend of mine gave me several of these awhile back.
She told me they were hand cut.
I think it is
Chinese Paper Cutting, which is called Jianzhi.
Click here to see some art made with paper cut outs.
Below are a couple of interesting books.
By Hand: The use of craft in contemporary art
The Art of paper Cutting
Savor the Day!
Yvonne
15 comments:
Your Inchie is stunning and I adore your PPF picture
Love Dawn xx
Oh my, you must have patience galore to work on thin paper in that scale. Great little fancy inchie.
Great inchie! And the cut - outs!!
That is some totally fancy cutting :)
I am impressed! I feel like I have ten thumbs most of the time. I als like your redo of the CD cover, I think it's perfect now ♥♥♥
It is a delicate beauty!
Love the idea of fancy as it relates to nature! Very pretty inchie.
It's wonderful and does look very delicate!
This is so pretty and delicate, lovely inchie.
That's the most fancy butterfly I've ever seen and very pretty too.
That's the most fancy butterfly I've ever seen and very pretty too.
Your butterfly is just beautiful! You found the perfect use for this delicate paper cut.
Your butterfly is exquisitely and delicately fancy!
Such pretty creations!!!
Lovely!
Amazing delicate cut out ...a very fancy butterfly or flutterbys as my children once called them. Peace, Mary helen
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