After recently posting about the papercut of a KolKol bush that I made in the Norval Sculpture garden (read about it here), it occurred to me that not everyone knows that a lot of Skinny laMinx designs started with cut paper. Some of them – like the Pincushion Protea that I cut in my studio …
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Start by cutting paper.
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Making Friday: Papercutting at the Norval
So many Skinny laMinx designs are based on papercuts. Pincushion, Flowerfields, Rough Cuts, Stig – they all started with a sketch, some paper and a sharp little knife. I haven’t been doing much paper cutting lately though, and I really miss it, so when I was invited to spend Garden Day 2020 in the Sculpture …
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History lesson: Flower Fields
The origin of our classic Flower Fields print.
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Making Friday: Paint swatch collages
I really like to make paint sample card collages and my studio walls are covered with them. I think it’s because the cutting and assembling shapes and proportions causes me to see new ways colours work together and relate to one another. Also, cutting and glueing is super-relaxing work.
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History lesson: Pincushion Protea
Just look at all the things our Pincushion design has appeared on over the years!
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Making Friday: Fending off the snooze
The only thing to do to avoid succumbing to the lure of the snooze, is to just MAKE something. Anything!
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Making Friday with Jenna
I don’t know Jenna McArthur in the least, but I had lots of fun with her picture in my studio last Making Friday, after cutting away her dress to see what she’d look like dressed in Skinny laMinx prints. And the verdict is: She looks great in everything! Which is your fave?
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Papercutting
I can’t tell you how excited I was to get this new publication from Chronicle Books. Papercutting: Contemporary Artists, Timeless Craft is an absolute treasure if you are at all interested in mad papercutting skillz. It’s filled with beautiful pics of work familiar to me, like that of Rob Ryan, Peter Callesen, Helen Musselwhite, Elsa …
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Tutorial: cut vinyl illustration
When I get my knife out, it’s usually to make paper cutouts, but also like to cut adhesive vinyl, as it has a couple of advantages over paper, namely: the finished cutout gets stuck to another surface, so you don’t have to be pernickity about designing something that will hold together, as you do with …
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