Paper cutting

This lesson we used knives to cut around photographs that we have taken ourselves. We taped the photographs to the paper to secure them, then followed the outline with the knife which then cut the paper underneath as well leaving a photograph cut out, a photograph stencil as well as a paper cut out and stencil. As well as using this technique we also did it where you could create a stencil without the middle section falling out, we did this by creating tabs now and again through out and then going round with a second line which leaves a thin open section in order to create a the stencil.

For my stencils I used photographs that I had taken of my friend and of some plants in my garden.
The reason I chose these specific pictures is because I feel they created an effective stencil and mainly the garden pictures created a stencil that looked good over different back grounds. Although the pictures of my friend were more figurative which therefore made it easier to see what it actually was so I this that one was more successful.