Goldfish and Lotus Paper Cutting Tutorial and Paper Cutting Patterns

Goldfish and Lotus Paper Cutting Tutorial and Paper Cutting Patterns

Goldfish and lotus are both auspicious and beautiful things in traditional folk paper-cut patterns. It often appears in various auspicious paper-cut creations, such as wedding paper-cuts or New Year window grilles. Through the combination of goldfish and lotus, it conveys the best wishes of "more than one year after another". At the same time, because goldfish has one more word "gold" than carp, it is more popular among people.

The paper-cut pattern used in this paper-cut tutorial is relatively simple, and the style is not very outstanding. The theme is mainly paper-cut goldfish patterns, and the lines on the body of the paper-cut fish are mainly in relief carving. At the same time, the top and bottom are simply decorated with lotus flowers, which makes the composition more complete. Because the eyes of this paper-cut goldfish are very big, it has some cartoon style.

1. Tracing, although the composition of this paper-cut pattern is not complicated, it is not a symmetrical paper-cut, so the paper-cut pattern can be obtained by hand drawing.

2. Preparation work before paper-cutting: stack the prepared paper-cut pattern with several pieces of single-sided colored paper, and then use a stapler to fix the stacked paper and paper-cut pattern.

3. Paper-cutting and engraving. In this paper-cutting operation, you can use paper-cutting to complete the cutting of the large outline. For the patterns and other textures inside the paper-cut fish, it is recommended to directly use engraving and cutting. .