Papercuts. Ouch! No, not those kind of papercuts. Papercutting is the art of cutting paper into designs and images and goes back to ancient China where the oldest known piece of papercut art was found dating from 6th century Xinjiang, China.
With all that time to practice you'd expect amazing things to have developed in the crafty world of papercutting and you'd be right.
Once you're tempted in help is at hand. Dudecraft Papercut Portraits tutorial shows you how you and your scissors can get in on the papercut action.
Dudecraft's Paul Overton has made a ten-minute how to video which takes you through tools (check out his ergonomic blade holder if you fancy a bit of crafty tool envy), materials and a step-by-step process to take your picture from photograph to perfect papercut. The results are retro-cool and look very striking framed up and mounted on a wall.
For the full how to video and the finished papercut of Steve McQueen that Paul creates click here.
