Peace Papercut

Posted by on Jan 8, 2014 in Currently Available, News, Papercuts | 0 comments

Peace Papercut

A trilingual papercut proclaims Peace in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.  Cut from one sheet of paper and mounted on a watercolor background, the viewer has to look closely to see the olive branch growing out of and upwards from the center of the letter ‘e’, as if striving against the odds to win!  The framing includes a silk mat and rubbed back wood...

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Seasons Papercut Ketubah

Posted by on Oct 28, 2013 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts | 2 comments

Seasons Papercut Ketubah

This design for this ketubah evolved very quickly once the couple found their words!  Abstract, papercut, seasons, a connection to Israel, nature, and a very specific palette of colors!  Finding the balance between the nature images they wanted and the request for abstraction was easy, since I explained that the nature of papercutting already creates a level of abstraction in the design. The link to Israel is the olive tree on the right, and the seasons are represented by both the imagery and the suggestions of color which the couple chose.  The seasons move clockwise, so at the base of the olive tree (autumn) there’s a shift into winter.  The first flower that appears is the snowdrop, a bloom that tends to pop up out of the snow in February.  Spring flowers move the eye up into full summer, suggested by blazing color in the upper left. A cacophony of  color was supplied via paint chips, and I spent one delightful day simply stirring colors to blend.  Take a look at the palette prior to finding its way into a seasonal...

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Romanian Architecture Ketubah – Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and English

Posted by on Oct 16, 2013 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts | 0 comments

Romanian Architecture Ketubah – Modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and English

Fresh from their year’s work in Romania and Moldova, this couple chose to set their ketubah with papercuts inspired by architectural details of the clock tower of Sighisoura, rural woodwork, oh, and a design from the cover of an old piece of Yiddish sheet music!  Musicians, cultural researchers…  what a joy to collaborate with these folks! A trilingual ketubah: modern Hebrew, English, and Yiddish.  This provided a challenge to get three texts of different lengths (the Yiddish – “an inefficient language,” their translator quipped, when that text turned out to be about 100 words longer than each of the other two!) to fit neatly into identical rectangles. (And nope, I use no computer to plot this out.  It’s all eyes, a straight edge, and 10th grade geometry!) The rest of the wish list included specific architectural details, French horns and basses, and colors ranging from purples and greens to touches of yellow/orange. Here you see the result, and a few of the inspirations:                              ...

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Fish Ketubah

Posted by on Jul 12, 2013 in Ketubah Art, Papercuts | 0 comments

Fish Ketubah

Oh, how I love commissions that send me to the library!  The couple who requested this ketubah had a short list of specifics:  salmon and trout in rotational symmetry, ivy, bilingual texts in a circle… with  bits of the border design dipping into that circle.  So I got to swim with the fishes!  The painting is ‘glazed’ with 5 successive layers of transparent watercolor, leading to an illusion of depth as sunlight filters through water. The border painting was created separate from the text and mounted on acid-free mat board, allowing it to float above the text about 1/8″.  It’s a marvelous look that creates another aspect of depth. A fine mist of mica flecks makes the surface of the border painting...

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Floral and Papercut Detail

Posted by on May 29, 2013 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts | 0 comments

Floral and Papercut Detail

This detail of the bottom of a ketubah shows the clarity of my wildflower painting and highlights the use of a tiny papercut (probably an inch and a half in diameter) to provide additional visual interest.  The intricate star shape is cut out of the full sheet of paper that forms the document, and it’s backed with a deep blue painted paper.  The star is further enhanced with colored pencil shading that create and in and out weaving look.  This type of container for greens or plants is one that is a universal image related to a tree of life, found in religious art throughout the...

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Music and Nature

Posted by on May 27, 2013 in Ketubah Art, News, Papercuts | 0 comments

Music and Nature

Nature in the spring, music, and great joyfulness infuse this ketubah.  I was able to keep the couple apprised of the progress of the work by sending photos as each stage of the design.  The vivid sunset colors are seen as a lighter watercolor wash behind the circle of the text.  At the very top, set against the night sky and its stars, is a small papercut box that incorporates the Hebrew names of the bride and groom -Avraham Itzhak and Yael Simona – placed against a music...

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