All This and Papercuts Too Ketubah

Posted by on Dec 24, 2023 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts, Visual Art | 0 comments

All This and Papercuts Too Ketubah

I love the experience of starting a ketubah with a list of imagery that sends me to do research and then tap my sense of balance and aesthetics so I can pull many ideas into a beautiful whole.  This was the first time I’d been asked to paint a fox and a wolf, swans, doves, hummingbirds and harps on the same page! I especially didn’t want the carnivores to appear threatening to the birds, so I had to pose them looking away from the swans!  Delicate papercut words are always a challenge because they must be legible and hold together.  Corners.  Oy!  Everything has to read easily without leaving gaping holes. And letters like the Hebrew lamed present a design decision when part of the letter extends beyond the given space. All...

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Folkloric Papercut Ketubah

Posted by on Mar 23, 2023 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts, Visual Art | 0 comments

Folkloric Papercut Ketubah

A very long time ago, I met a child who wanted to take my papercutting class at KlezKamp. And then quite recently I received a call asking if I’d craft a ketubah for this same person, and could I please incorporate some papirshnit!  What a joy!  As usual, the bride and groom and I exchanged many emails and eventually we settled on a few of the many and varied elements of their lives to become the framework of their ketubah.  Images representing the histories of their families over many continents! – and their love of color, detail, and Yiddish folklore are all incorporated here.  The heart-shaped inner ring around the text is a repeating design based on metal bridge railing in St. Petersburg, where the groom was born and grew up (until I met him!) The golden peacock (di goldene pave) and the white goat (di vayse tsigele) are both recurring images in Yiddish literature and folklore.  Other designs represent fiber art that references the bride’s background.  Even the colorful swirls below the intricate papercut were arrived at after careful back and forth discussion and the magic of our devices carrying preferences at blitz-post speed! There are lots of electronic tools to create lovely lettering and papercraft, but there’s something about the craeft itself that elevates work such as this because the human hand is as close to the surface of the art as it can be.  What a joy to see that exposure to a folkart as a child has stayed vibrant and meaningful for all these years.  I am ever grateful....

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NYC Skyline-Plus Papercut Ketubah

Posted by on Jul 3, 2022 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts, Visual Art | 0 comments

NYC Skyline-Plus Papercut Ketubah

A pandemic love story led to a move from NYC to Harrisburg, PA, and the bride and groom asked to have both cities incorporated into the design of their singular ketubah. As with all of my commissions, I requested a color palette, wording, and of course any abstract or specific likes, dislikes, and wishes.  Armed with lots on the wish list, I got to work with grid paper (LOTS of that!!) and worked and reworked the imagery to create a chuppah, meaningful and beautiful poles, and a skyline packed with recognizable icons.  The Pennsylvania state capitol building sits front and a little off center, proudly announcing that it, too, is part of the story! When creating such a papercut design, there are ways to ‘engineer’ the work to encourage the eye to see depth even if the images themselves lie quite flat.  I cut away lots of paper to suggest shadows, thus allowing buildings (and a bridge, a statue, and an arch) to appear in front of or behind one another. Gluing a very wide open, lacy papercut to a painted background turned me into Macgyver for a while, as you can see here.  The last thing I cut out was the open center and by then there was absolutely no way I could glue and lay down the entire piece perfectly aligned with the text, so I brought out the OED, a heavy mailing tube, and some removable tape and went at it with a tiny brush, unrolling as I went along. The background painting is created with gouache (an opaque water-based paint), mixed to the six colors chosen by the couple and applied in two layers, with texture added when wet.  I then buffed the surface in the center to allow for the lettering of the text. ...

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Philly Blue Ketubah

Posted by on May 15, 2022 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts, Visual Art | 0 comments

Philly Blue Ketubah

Very simple guidance here – blue color, papercut, a passage from Song of Songs, and images of beloved Philadelphia… And here it is. Oh, darn, I should have added a pretzel with...

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Peacocks in Their Favorite Places Ketubah

Posted by on May 10, 2022 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts, Visual Art | 0 comments

Peacocks in Their Favorite Places Ketubah

When a couple provides a carefully curated list of images for a ketubah design, I am usually very, very happy because it activates my ‘now make this all hang together beautifully’ energy.  Here’s a great example. We have two skiers, an apple tree, favorite house plants, collected stone critters, lake, beach, mountain, a Yiddish verse… and intricately hand-cut and colored peacocks.  The wonder of art is that we can pretend that all the seasons live happily together on one the page!  What...

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Collaborative Two-Part Ketubah

Posted by on Dec 27, 2021 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts, Visual Art | 0 comments

Collaborative Two-Part Ketubah

  A challenge in this time of upended expectations came to me in the guise of a printed document that needed embellishment.  Early in the pandemic, this couple chose to marry in a tiny ceremony at a very carefully chosen woodland site in Maine.  With a text already completed and access to photos, I was able to recreate the setting in a ‘frame’ around the print:  the huppah, bridal bouquet, site of their engagement and dinners, and reference to the garlic scapes, bicycles, and landscape of the beautiful setting of the wedding.  A bit of papercut art breaks through the frame and connects the bouquet to the central text.  With so much taken away in isolation, this work of the heart is a step towards honoring that great strange day.  Mazal tov!  ...

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