Learn the essential skills of papercutting with this practical, printable guide by artist and workshop leader Douglas Black.

The 21-page A4 PDF takes you through choosing tools and paper, safe hand positions, blade angle, pressure, cutting order and troubleshooting. It also covers adding colour, mounting and caring for your finished work.

The pack includes:

• A practice template for developing control
• Catherine Earnshaw from Wuthering Heights
• Romeo and Juliet
• Frankenstein’s Creature
• Miss Havisham from Great Expectations
• Printable literary text pages to place behind each finished papercut

Print the templates at 100% and work through them at your own pace.

This is a digital PDF download. No physical product will be posted.

For personal, non-commercial use only. The PDF, templates and finished work made from them may not be sold, shared or used in classes or workshops without written permission.

Paper Cutting: A Beginner’s Guide, Literary Characters Pack 1

£7.50

You will receive one 21-page A4 PDF. Print the templates at 100%. Your download link will appear on the checkout thank-you page and will also be sent by email. The emailed link will remain available for 30 days.

Purchase grants one person a personal, non-commercial licence. The PDF and templates may not be shared, resold or redistributed. Finished work made from the templates may not be sold. Use in classes, groups, kits or workshops requires written permission.

DOUGLAS BLACK

AKA Douglas Thompson BA MA UKCCF. Theatre and visual arts.

Paper Cutting: A Beginner’s Guide, Literary Characters Pack 1

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