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Lucky Snake Year of the Rabbit and Snake Paper-cut Patterns and Paper-cut Snake Tutorials

Lucky Snake Year of the Rabbit and Snake Paper-cut Patterns and Paper-cut Snake Tutorials Lucky Snake Year of the Rabbit and Snake Paper-cut Patterns and Paper-cut Snake Tutorials

Year of the Snake paper-cutIn the creation of paper-cutting, there are many meanings that need to be expressed in paper-cutting. Prayers for good luck and blessings, so we can often see this type of paper-cuts made on patterns, integrating almost all auspicious elements that can be seen and thought of in folk culture. For example, we can see copper coins and ingots in many Year of Snake paper-cut patterns, and some even cut and inscribe blessing words directly onto the Year of Snake paper-cut patterns. These are things we can learn from when creating. Here I would like to share with you a very unique paper-cut creation in terms of paper-cut patterns - the Year of the Snake paper-cut to attract wealth and treasures. The snake-coated rabbit paper-cut is the lively style and unique combination that is a highlight of this paper-cut pattern.


Lucky Snake Year of the Rabbit and Snake Paper-cut Patterns and Paper-cut Snake Tutorials


This Year of the SnakePaper cuttingMy own The borrowed folk proverb - a snake coiled around a rabbit will definitely make you rich. I believe everyone is already very familiar with it. Such a theme is used in many paper-cut creations for the Year of the Snake. It is common to see a paper-cut snake coiled around a paper-cut rabbit. This Year of the Snake paper-cut with a snake and a rabbit is even more unique. In the coiled part of the snake and rabbit, we can see a unique text composed of attracting wealth and treasure. This unique art form of combining multiple characters into one character is very common in traditional Chinese folk paper-cutting patterns, and is also a major feature of traditional folk paper-cutting. And this paper-cut snake of the Year of the Snake also has rows of ingots on its body. This design is also very clever and has excellent artistic beauty. When the paper-cut snake coiled around the paper-cut rabbit, it did not show a very vicious side., but spit out auspicious clouds, which will dilute the ferocious side of the snake itself and better show the wisdom of the snake and the auspicious meaning of the snake and the rabbit.


Now let’s take a look at how to cut paper in this Year of the Snake:


1. Prepare appropriate paper-cut materials. If you want to complete this paper-cutting for the Year of the Snake, you first need to clarify what its purpose is. This Year of the Snake paper-cut is generally used as a window grille after it is created. Therefore, we should also fully consider this during the specific tailoring process. The selected paper needs to be better in terms of flexibility and light transmittance to meet the needs of window decoration and preservation.


2. Trace the paper-cutting of the Snake Pan Rabbit to attract wealth in this Year of the Snake. This Year of the Snake paper-cut pattern itself does not have many rules, so when tracing, we can only follow the idea of ??first tracing the outline, and then carving out the details to perform specific tracing operations. In particular, the unique text composed of "luck and treasure" under the rabbits body needs to be completely outlined with a pencil before cutting, so that the final cutting can create the feeling of calligraphy.


3. Year of the SnakePaper-cutting tutorial operating tips. When making this paper-cutting of the Snake Coated Rabbit and Snake to attract wealth and treasure, we need to pay special attention to two points during the specific cutting process. One is the smooth and rounded outer contour of the paper-cut snake itself. This smoothness is extremely difficult for paper-cutting operations. It needs to be rotated while cutting, and it is necessary to master this rotation operation extremely well. The other problem is the middle How to cut the calligraphy style of the text to attract wealth and treasure. When cutting this calligraphy style, the role of scissors may not be very great. If you use a carving knife at this time, the final effect may be better. Special attention is required here.