This is a little something I took a punt at over the weekend. I'm a big fan of Rob Ryan but always felt I needed a really good reason to spend hours with nail scissors and a scalpel painstakingly cutting a message out of paper. I am designing a production of 'The Little Match Girl' for the Family Christmas show at The Wardrobe Theatre this year, and we've been dreaming in paper and pop ups whilst shaping the show.
I hope you like it. It didn't take nearly as long as I thought it would.
Why dont you have a go at creating your own Rob Ryan homage.
You will need:
- scalpel
- cutting mat
- nail scissors
- pencil
- paper
A sneaky trick though...I drew out my design, and however hard I try it is IMPOSSIBLE for me to have a light touch with a pencil. Therefore, when photographing the image, I turned it over to reveal a squaeky clean white side even though the writing was now backwards. All you do is Horizontally Flip it back in your photo editing programme, et voila!
