Today’s two cuts were created from a photo I took this afternoon during a walk.
I made two different cutting files from the same image, using different Photoshop and Inkscape techniques. The version cut from light green and mounted on white cardstock was auto-traced in Inkscape. The version cut from red, also on white, was manually created.
It’s interesting how the same source image can produce such drastically different results.
Today’s project was inspired by a carving I purchased from Alex Mountain, a Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwagu'ł) artist from the Mamalilikulla First Nation. Alex is an Indigenous carver often found working on the streets of Gastown, Vancouver.
The final result was cut from red cardstock, mounted on orange, and finished with a black border.
I'm still working out a few kinks in the process—the SVG file and the cutter both need some adjustment. Once that’s sorted, it’ll be goodbye to the X-Acto knife.
The original wooden carving is shown alongside my paper-cut interpretation on the cutting mat.
I have recently acquired a Silver Bullet Die Cutting machine. Here is the first cut! One of my photos turned into silhouette using photoshop and then cut to plain card stock.
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