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Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum

Chrysanthemum, plum blossom, orchid, and bamboo are also called the Four Gentlemen. Tao Yuanming has a famous saying: "Pick chrysanthemums under the eastern fence, and leisurely see the Nanshan Mountains." Lets cut a chrysanthemum today.

Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum

Take a piece of yellow cardboard as shown in the picture, fold it in the middle, and fold it at the fold line Start the pen at the right position and draw a stamen of the chrysanthemum.

Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum

Then, we draw more stamens, and the outer stamens should be longer than each other, showing the inner Arched.

Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum

Then at the bottom of the drawn stamens, we draw two lower curled stamens. At the end of the stamen we have something like the picture.

Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum

Then we draw the stem of the chrysanthemum at the bottom of the drawn chrysanthemum. Draw the leaves of the chrysanthemum in the middle of the stem.

Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum

Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum

Draw the main veins and branches of the leaf in the middle of the leaf Leaf veins. Then use a utility knife to hollow out the leaf veins.

Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum

Finally we followed the painted chrysanthemum Cut out the lines of the chrysanthemum with scissors. The paper-cut of the chrysanthemum is completed .

Paper cutting tutorial: How to cut a beautiful chrysanthemum