This is a continuation of the lacy series I’ve been working on recently. I’ve been painting the inside of the vase, but as I started getting more ambitious with the cutouts, sometimes the color inside got a bit lost in the design. For this piece, I switched to having the painted color on the outside. That created a challenge in photographing it. In real life, there’s enough cutouts to see the front layer of paper, the white inside layer of paper, and the background behind it. But since I’ve been using white backgrounds for photography, the inside of the vase is hard to distinguish from the background. I took photos on both a white background and a black background to make it easier to see those layers.
On the central section, two opposite panels have fully webbed lace patterns similar to a recent vase, but with regularly-spaced vertical lines. The other two panels have cutouts based on similar webbed lines, but I only cut out every other gap between the lines in a checkerboard-like pattern. It was a little surprising to me how different of a feel those two patterns create, given how similar they are.
