Sitting in church on Sundays, my eyes would wander to the multi-colors of the stained glass windows. Even as a young man, the fascination was there and only grew stronger as I grew older. The way the light played with the colors of the stained glass would hold my attention until Mass was over.
I began thinking, “What a wonderful papercut it would make if I could capture the look of the stained glass window”. I looked at the stained glass windows in church differently now to see how it was constructed. I noticed that I could cut the lead outlines in black paper and then back up the papercut with colored papers to simulate stained glass.
I began cutting, using a pattern from a stained glass pattern book and thickening the lines. After many hours of cutting, the skeleton of the papercut was completed.
I searched the internet for specialty papers and found several types that gave me different effects. I then carefully cut the specialty papers and glued them onto the skeleton frame. I was able to achieve that special stained glass look on my papercut.
I hope that you like the stained glass papercut and please comment on them. More papercuts can be viewed on my website gallery and on flickr. Until the next posting, have a wonderful day and happy cutting.(Sorry it took so long between posts but sometimes there is barely enough time to breathe—this was one of those times)
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the look of the stained glass window”. I looked at the stained glass windows in church differently now to see how it was constructed. I noticed that I could cut the lead outlines in black paper and then back up the papercut with colored papers to simulate stained glass.