Paper-cutting tip: waterline

Water patterns are often used in paper-cut works, and they are often combined with waterfowl, fish, aquatic plants and legends. The most common themes are fish playing lotus, carp yue longmen and crossing the sea with the Eight Immortals.

Because water is constantly changing in form, paper-cutting has different forms of expression, which can be roughly divided into: still water pattern, fish scale pattern, double vortex pattern, wavy pattern, waterfall pattern and so on. According to the needs of the content of the work, you can choose the corresponding patterns, such as the still water pattern of Yuanyang playing in the water, the knurling wave pattern of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea and so on.

How to make water ripples: Water ripples generally do not appear alone in the application process, and are composed of multiple repeated patterns. In the process of cutting, it is necessary to cut layer by layer from the inside out. The lines of water ripples are as changeable as the curves of moire. It is required that the cutting strength should be balanced and the paper should be gently transferred.