Cut Paper



In this project I did a close up of a leaf with the veins and a little caterpillar on top of the leaf eating it.  All the color is in watercolor besides the background which is a colored mat board.  The actual leaf is different shades of green and red and a bit of colors that lie between those two colors.  The veins of the leaf are a very light shad of green which is hard to see from the picture.  It is raised about a half an inch from the base mat board.  The caterpillar is based off of the caterpillar from the children's book,  The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carl and a cute picture of one that I found on the internet.  That caterpillar from the book has a green body with a red head and purple antenna and was one of my favorite books when I was very little.  
One element of art that I used was space.  I used this in the difference between the foreground of the leaf and the background dark green mat board.  The elevation of the leaf from the mat board also add to this because it creates more of a difference between the two, and makes the leaf appear closer to the viewer and more detailed, making it positive space, while the dark green is flat and seems less detailed and more empty, making it be negative space.   One principle of design that I used was proportion.  The leaf goes off the page and looks quite large because of that, and that it takes up most of the page and is actually big.  The caterpillar is very small, it was hard to make because of how small it is and it is small in comparison to the size of the piece itself, and the leaf. The big leaf shows how small the caterpillar is, and it makes the leaf seem very large.
The master artist I chose was Hina Aoyama.  She doesn't use much color in her works, mainly just cut black paper with no background, but she does a lot of really small details and things similar to how I cut the leaf veins out, but mine is less intricate and larger than what she does. It is similar still because of the sort of web like appearance of the leaf veins.  
Overall I really liked this piece.  I like how the final idea came out to what I wanted it to be and I improved my paper cutting skills.  One thing I could have done better was measuring the paper better so it would fit on top of the colored paper better.  It would have also been good if I was a bit more careful while cutting because some of the veins were not the neatest.  I liked the caterpillar because of how tiny it was and it was also really fun to make.  It was based off of the Very Hungry Caterpillar, which was one of my favorite books as a child.  






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