I’ve been working recently on a series of vases where I’ve been exploring cutting lace-like shapes into the vase. This piece is the latest in that series, moving away from only angular shapes of the cutouts. The cutout shapes spiral back and forth around the vase form and emerge as a flare from the top edge.
Similar to one of the other vases, I painted only the inside of the paper. The cutout sections of the paper reveal pops of the brighter color inside. I played a bit with cutting the curves using templates but ended up cutting most of the curves freehand. I was surprised how smoothly that went – and I’m still very surprised that I haven’t run into any major issues in any of these vases with cutting too far and destroying the paper!
