See? How do you get a blister on the outside of a knuckle? By having calluses on all your fingertips and spending a solid week with an exacto knife in your hand. Although I’ll tell you, the Martha Stewart knife is sooooo much better than any other. It’s remarkable how much easier it is on your hands.
Anyhoo, I’ve been working on a Halloween papercutting at night in front of the TV, and during the day I was working on this beauty, so that’s a lot of papercutting.
One of my ill-fated plans for this year was to address all my naked walls. That hasn’t really happened too much, I got the staircase handled, and my little home office has some, and my studio is getting more fleshed out, but that still left a *whole lot* of naked house to address. The cheapest of my plans was to do a big papercutting for my entry way. I thought it would be cool to walk in, see a big art deco peacock, and you’d instantly understand what I was going for with the rest of the house.
I used a poster sized piece of green art paper, drew out my pattern and got to cutting. Then I got another poster sized piece in white and painted the background with watercolors.
I like how it’s just big enough to line up with that bookshelf. I cheaped out on the frame, again, and the picture hangers mounted on it were absolutely unusable, so it’s kind of just balancing there on the lip of the frame. I keep glancing over after I shut the door to make sure it hasn’t fallen over and crashed to the floor.