New Year rabbit paper cutting simple tutorial

New Year Bunny Paper Cutting Simple Tutorial as follows:

1, take a piece of color paper and fold it twice, together 4 layers, or take 4 pieces of color paper and staple the edges.

2, tracing, on the stapled paper, draw the diagram carefully with a pencil.

3, cut, cut the rabbit legs do not use sawtooth pattern for fur decoration, decoration is only used in the ears and head, highlighting the large ears.

4, the rabbit's legs simplified into two groups of curved crescent pattern.

Paper-cutting is a kind of folk art that uses scissors or carving knives to cut and carve patterns on paper, which is used to decorate life or cooperate with other folk activities. Its inherited visual images and modeling formats contain rich cultural and historical information and express the social cognition and moral concepts of the general public.

History of paper-cutting

The Tang Dynasty paper-cutting was already in a period of great development, and Du Fu's poem "Peng Nga Hsing" has the sentence of "Warm soup washes my feet, and paper cuts beckon my soul", which is the custom of beckoning the soul with paper-cutting that had already spread to the folk at that time. The Tang Dynasty paper cuts, now in the British Museum, show that the level of paper-cutting craftsmanship was already very high, and the picture composition is complete, expressing a kind of ideal world in heaven and on earth.

Tang dynasty popular jie, its openwork woodblock pattern with paper-cutting characteristics, such as the collection of Japan's Shokurain pair of sheep, its sheep pattern is typical of paper-cutting handmade art expression. Tang Dynasty folk also appeared in the form of paper-cutting using the production of leakage printing plate, people with thick paper carved into a flower plate, the dye will leakage printing to the cloth, the formation of beautiful patterns.