Draw with scissors! Happy paper cutting!
- Bernadette Gottlieb
- May 6
- 3 min read
If you don't feel like painting and just want to create things without a lot of pressure using scissors and colored paper. There you go! Take your scissors and let yourself be tempted to make your first paper cut.
When making my paper cut, I only thought about the choice of colors and that I wanted to develop a character. I then created an abstract, free work from the remaining snippets. Everyone's work is different. From concrete to abstract or just as abstract. You decide.
You can either make your collage very colorful and use as many different colors as possible. Or you can look for color variations in the same color just lighter or darker. Otherwise there is the rule of thumb: No more than three different colors. Then it doesn't look overloaded and harmonizes. If you want to go a little further, you can work in a light-dark contrast or, like me, choose a complementary color. These are: Orange-Blue, Violet-Yellow and Green-Red.
Henri Matisse Matisse called it 'drawing with scissors'. He made this type of cut-out when he was 80 years old and could no longer hold a brush due to his illness.
Now it's time for you to start: Duration approx. 90 minutes to infinity :D
This is what you need for your scissor drawings:
colorful papers
a pair of scissors
a large sheet of paper minimum 280g and 70x50cm/cardboard/tone paper
TIP You can also cut it smaller later
Glue stick
P.S. The links are purely recommendations, but not MUST.
Put your phone on airplane mode, find a place, get your things ready and start making your paper cut. It's just you, your scissors, your paper and maybe some music or a good podcast.
Instructions
Cut or draw with your scissors as you feel. Let yourself be guided by your feelings, by music or a podcast. You can cut very angular shapes or round shapes. Take at least 45 minutes to do this. You can also use it to meditate and unwind.
When you feel like you're done and don't want to transfer any more forms from your inner self into the outer world, then take a short break. Then you look at your shapes and start laying them out on your large sheet of paper. You can do something small or something big. The surface of the paper can be cut even smaller later. You can also put several pictures on one piece of paper like a small comic and then separate them or leave them.
As soon as you are sure about the composition, start gluing. Caution: Make only a few points and keep the paper in the placed position. You don't want the papers to slip or stick dead. It's nice when it seems alive. Like it falls down when you put it up.
TIP If you don't want to glue: Collect the shapes in a box and keep adding new pictures with your shapes, which you can capture with your cell phone or a camera and then add them further process.
Concentration tip: Put on headphones. The sound is absorbed and you are not distracted. Silence.
Feel free to post your work on Instagram and link me. I'm happy to see it.
You are female and have questions about one of your projects, publishers, your book or a portfolio compilation or simply a creative block: Book me here for an hour. I look forward to seeing you!
All the best and see you next time, your Bernadette
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