The Art of Papercutting
By Jessica Palmer
Search Press 2015
Paperback, £14.99 UK,$21.95 US
ISBN 978 1 78221 066 5
Star rating: ****
It’s January – time to take up a craft, or fine-tune your
skills. Jessica Palmer’s The Art of
Papercutting is an excellent mix of the practical and the inspirational, which
delivers on its inviting cover line, “Learn how to see the world with a
papercutter’s eyes.”
Jessica Palmer is a successful artist who illustrates in
paper. Papercutting is her medium, and her book generously shares her technical
and inspirational secrets. This is not a project book – although there are 12
templates back-of-book. It is a how-to
book – thinking in positive/negative, the importance of pattern, connecting
links, sourcing designs, plus many invaluable tips (for example: if cutting
text, a photocopy is easier to cut than an actual book page).
The book is a gallery of inspiration, featuring the fantastic, Beardsley-like
intricate arabesque designs of the author. The author's wearable paperart collars are very special indeed.
Even if you are into digital papercrafting, there is much to
be gained from this book. Just as
abstract artists can do representational drawing, learning about papercutting
by hand can up your digital design skills. Learning about how to generate
papercut designs is a shared skill.
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