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Sunday, October 30, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Mazal Tov
As I got better at papercutting I starting making wedding gifts for my friends (stay tuned for pictures in posts to come!) Eventually, some of my friends starting requesting designs, colors, and psukim for their wedding gifts. The papercuts became more and more personalized until one of my friends asked me to make her Ketubah (traditional Jewish marriage document)- well, you can't get much more personal than that!
For most of my papercuts, I start with sheets of white paper, sketch out the designs for each layer, cut them out, and paint the layers at the end. For the Ketubahs, the bottom layer is also the layer that the text is written out on using ink and a quill pen. The best quality calligraphy paper I found happened to be an off-white cream colour, instead of pure white. At first I was nervous that it would leave the piece looking washed out. In the end, in my opinion, the cream paper gave a beautiful finish to the black ink and colorful frame.
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| 4 Layers, 14"x18" |
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| 5 Layers, 19"x24" |
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Shana Tova!
This one seemed appropriate for this time of year. The words in this papercut are adapted from tefillot we say after we blow the shofar,
ארשת שפתינו יערב לפניך, אל רם ונשא מבין ומאזין, מביט ומקשיב לקול תקיעתנו
ותקבל ברחמים וברצון סדר מלכויותינו
"May our mouths' words rise beautiful before you, most high and elevated God,
who understands and heeds, looks on and listens to the sounds of our shofarot.
Accept, with compassion and favour, our Order of the Kingship."
(Rabbi Jonathan Sacks' translation from the Koren Rosh HaShana Mahzor)
The person who commissioned this piece asked me to write "תפילתינו" instead of "תקיעתנו" (prayers instead of shofar sounds) so that one can relate to it the whole year round and not just Rosh HaShana time. |
| 9"x13" framed |
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