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cutout poem update!
Jul. 20th, 2023 11:07 pmI just finished putting everything together earlier tonight! (Click to zoom in!)
The poems are (basically) the same as last time, I just removed a few lines from the bottom two. The background is newspaper clippings about various recent natural disasters (heatwaves, floods, wildfires, etc) and the "burn marks" were made with a combination of soft pastel and charcoal (first all the snips of paper and now charcoal dust... I really need to clean my desk).
The background's background is made from a sheet of marbled paper I bought in a set a while ago from Etsy for bookbinding purposes. It was only 8.5" x 11", though, while the whole piece was 11" x 14", so I had to cut it up to make it show up where I wanted.... which would've been fine, but I wasn't really thinking the first time and forgot that if you trace on the back of something, the final cutout image is flipped... so nothing was the right shape. Thankfully, there ended up being just enough paper leftover in the end, but now they're not all facing in the same direction. Oops! Maybe next time I'll finally remember to flip my design beforehand -- but I probably won't.
I'm actually so proud of how this turned out! I don't know if you can really tell from the picture, but the marbled paper is behind a sheet of glass, then the newspaper is laid on top of that, then the poems are stuck on top of that with foam mounting tape, so there are three layers of depth, which I think looks so cool. I wonder if I should've made the poems stick out a bit more, though? Also, for future reference, you should really use a proper shadow box if you ever do something like this. I ended up using just a normal frame that I got on sale at JoAnn's and that was probably a huge mistake..
The poems are (basically) the same as last time, I just removed a few lines from the bottom two. The background is newspaper clippings about various recent natural disasters (heatwaves, floods, wildfires, etc) and the "burn marks" were made with a combination of soft pastel and charcoal (first all the snips of paper and now charcoal dust... I really need to clean my desk).
The background's background is made from a sheet of marbled paper I bought in a set a while ago from Etsy for bookbinding purposes. It was only 8.5" x 11", though, while the whole piece was 11" x 14", so I had to cut it up to make it show up where I wanted.... which would've been fine, but I wasn't really thinking the first time and forgot that if you trace on the back of something, the final cutout image is flipped... so nothing was the right shape. Thankfully, there ended up being just enough paper leftover in the end, but now they're not all facing in the same direction. Oops! Maybe next time I'll finally remember to flip my design beforehand -- but I probably won't.
I'm actually so proud of how this turned out! I don't know if you can really tell from the picture, but the marbled paper is behind a sheet of glass, then the newspaper is laid on top of that, then the poems are stuck on top of that with foam mounting tape, so there are three layers of depth, which I think looks so cool. I wonder if I should've made the poems stick out a bit more, though? Also, for future reference, you should really use a proper shadow box if you ever do something like this. I ended up using just a normal frame that I got on sale at JoAnn's and that was probably a huge mistake..
