WYCINANKA by Felicia

WYCINANKA: "BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS"

Real flowers are a great inspiration for making paper cuts.  I remember my mother taking flowers apart and using the petals for patterns to make her crepe paper creations.  In doing Wycinanki or Polish Paper Cutting, the flowers are very stylized rather than realistic.  It's like cutting a flower in slices and seeing it from the inside out.  You really feel as though you are looking through the flower.

WYCINANKI by Felicia

Polish, Chinese, German Papercuttings, and Reverse Glass Painting

I created these pieces to donate to a benefit for my brother Joe's medical bills.  He had tongue cancer and died on his birthday, February 16, 2018.

WYCINANKA by Felicia

New Wycinanka Polish Paper Cut

WYCINANKI by Felicia

POLISH PAPER CUT..."CIRCLE OF ANGELS"

I cut white paper into a circle.  I then folded it in half, fourths, eighths, and sixteenths.  The paper was quite thick at this point.  (This is similar to folding snowflakes.)  I drew with pencil on the triangular section and made half of an angel.  Then I stapled it together, to keep it from sliding around.  I cut out all the negative spaces in and around the angel.  Carefully opening up the folded circle, I saw all my angels along with little birds and Christmas tree shapes, along with the Star of Bethlehem in the middle.  I hadn't planned it that way but was surprised to see the details after it was unfolded.  I glued it onto red shiny paper.

PISANKI ON A DRYING BOARD

PISANKI ON A DRYING BOARD

The board has sets of three nails spaced in triangles, the tips protruding, so that varnished eggs can balance on them as they dry. There are 45 nails, which holds 15 eggs.

SCRATCHED EGGS....SKROBANKI

SCRATCHED EGGS....SKROBANKI

PISANKI by Felicia

PISANKI by Felicia