How to book an Artful Art workshop
1. FINDING THE RIGHT WORKSHOP FOR YOU OR YOUR CHILD What are your interests? What skills to do you want to learn and try? What date and time suits you? The Workshop Details page on the paperscissorsrock.net website gives all the up to date information on current workshops. There's also an article here about the Paper Art (5-8 yrs) workshop in particular. What's the workshop leader like? The workshops are run by me, Sam Hickman, an artist who primarily works with cut paper.
The shape of the exhibition
Here’s a little bit about what I’ve been up to this last year… A friend of mine, Sass (Sass Harding Photography) and I had spoken about working together a couple of years ago. Combining her photography and my paper art in some way seemed a pleasing idea. So when the opportunity for a project celebrating our village came about we decided that was the project for us. The village was to turn 50 in 2017 and being a uniquely designed place, architecturally and socially, it was
Preview Night
I've had this idea in my head for a while so, although it's not topical or anything, I decided to comicfy it. (Yes that is a word!!) I've been to a couple of preview nights at exhibition openings and listening to critics does make me giggle - although I'm sure what they're saying is extremely viable. I am positively hopeless at art appreciation. Anyway, here is Guyman and Starfunkel's take on it... PS I probably should have outlined the speech bubbles as it's all white this
Love not Hate - a belated comic
It's been a while since my last comic. I like to use topical themes (the recent rise in hate crime this time ) but seen through the adventures of young Guyman and Starfunkel (metaphorically I guess). The underlying themes have been a bit sad of late. The next one won't be quite so dark but is about gender inequality. Don't panic though - like this one (hate crime tempered with pokemon) it has a light side. Which one is the main theme is down to individual interpretation th
Guest post for The Paperdashery
About a year ago I was asked by The Paperdashery to write a guest blog about the basics of papercutting. Not being one to put anything off I began immediately last week. They liked it and published it yesterday. It's not a definitive guide to papercutting but does show how I do things...if you're interested. If you are, or you know someone who might be then here it is: https://www.thepaperdashery.com/paper-cutting-absolute-beginners/ It also tells of a free printable cuttin
It's all part of the process
Brief: to create an A4 wedding card for my client’s nephew and fiancé. It should be black and white with maybe a splash of colour, include the couples initials B and L and show their love of music (he plays the keyboard and she sings). It should be simple and bold. I wanted to know as much as possible about the couple. My client wasn’t sure what sort of music the couple played but from our chat I felt it might be something a bit chilled out – jazzy, bluesy, indie-y. My m
Guyman & Starfunkel: a third instalment
I'm on a roll. I'm managing to post one comic every two weeks. Which is as much as I can ask of myself at the moment. It's cool though - they're getting out there at least, and I'm enjoying myself. This one is entitled My Island. I was a little bit inspired by a song, and, like the song, there might be a metaphor in there somewhere. Not the same metaphor though...that's where the inspiration ended and my brain took over...not to mention, it had to be set in the Guyman & S
Another Guyman & Starfunkel instalment
I'm going to try and post a new comic every couple of weeks so here's my second ever one. This one's a single frame so don't think there's anything missing - that's it! It is also a bit topical. If you have a primary school child sitting SATs at the moment you'll definitely understand. My son, in Year 2, explained time connectives to me one day. I, who managed to get an A-Level in English, had never heard of them. Although I think it's great that littles can absorb a grea
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