PAPER PORTRAITS

PUT ASIDE YOUR PHONE CAMERA AND EMBRACE THE VICTORIAN CRAZE FOR MAKING CUT-PAPER SILHOUETTES

Project: ROMA MCLAUGHLIN

PROUDLY HOMEMADE Most family pictures these days are snapped on a phone – very occasionally pausing to get everyone to pose nicely. Capturing these moments was a lot trickier before photography, especially if you didn’t have the wallet to get your portrait painted. No wonder then, that cut-paper-silhouette-making took off in the mid 18th century. Much more accessible, these scenes of a single colour (but usually black) could be made at home and, even without surface detail, convey both the likeness and personality of a portrait subject or group. This project encourages you to put one of your portraits to paper. You’ll be cutting it out, so keep the complexity of the image you pick in line with your skills (and take a look at our issue 54, for more paper-cutting tips). For…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2018

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