Rabbit and Sheep Paper Cutting Pattern Tutorial
What would you think of if the image of a rabbit appears in a paper-cut pattern? In fact, when a rabbit appears in paper-cutting, it often means "feeling proud" because the word "vomit" and the word "rabbit" happen to have the same pronunciation. , and the rabbit itself is elegant and beautiful, so it sometimes refers to women in special paper-cut works; and the word sheep itself means "auspicious" in ancient Chinese, which means auspiciousness, so if there is a paper-cut pattern of sheep, the work What is presented is the meaning of auspiciousness and peace, and since the word "sheep" itself is similar to the word "beautiful", it also has a beautiful meaning.
1. Preparation: Take two pieces of colored paper and fold them twice to make each piece into four layers, or take eight pieces of colored paper and staple them into two pieces.
2. Tracing: Use a pencil to carefully draw the picture, highlighting the long ears of the rabbit and the curved horns and thin legs of the sheep.
3. Cutting: When cutting a rabbit, there is no zigzag pattern on the legs for fur decoration. The decoration is only used on the ears and head. This is to highlight the big fluffy ears (see the paper-cut work "Jade Rabbit"). Rabbit The legs are simplified as much as possible into two sets of curved crescent patterns. In folk paper-cutting, radish, cabbage, and flowers are mostly combined with rabbits. Among the common traditional themes are "Eagle Stepping on Rabbit", "Snake Coating Rabbit", etc. Tracing back to the roots of folk customs, these themes are related to marriage. Eagle , snake represents male, rabbit represents female.
Paper-cut work "Jade Rabbit"
The shearing method of sheep is to use the smooth arcs of the back and legs to contrast with the zigzag patterns on the chest, abdomen and tail to express the characteristics of the sheep (see the paper-cut work "Auspicious Sheep"). The small dots on the back The embellishment of small decorative flowers increases the interest of the entire paper-cutting. The sheeps face should highlight its slender eyes and long nose and pointed mouth. Most of the things that are combined with sheep are flowers and plants. Among the folk paper-cutting themes, the combination of sheep and chicken is "Auspicious (Chicken) Xiang (Sheep) Ruyi", and the theme of the combination of multiple sheep is "Three Sheep Kaitai", etc.It is a homophony of "sheep" and "xiang".
Paper-cut work "Auspicious Sheep"
