In Luoyang, an ancient capital of Chinese emperors we visited an art shop where they make articrafts of papercut. A teacher taught me how to cut a paper into a very beautiful butterfly but until I figure that out again from my sample I will post some painted papercut that i bought in that workshop.The delicacy and beauty of it is simply charming.

They are beautiful. Roughly how big are they?

They are about 2.5x3.5in.So delicate.

and here are the butterflies. The black one was done in the workshop with assistance, the pink i just cut it for you to demonstrate the technique.Next step will be painting.

and here i painted with crayola markers a couple of them; I don't think I can do a good job at painting though.

Lovely!

those are pretty

thank you, guys.

That's really cool. It'd be fun to learn how to do the horses too. It reminds me when I was a kid and we used to cut out snowflakes.

Probably the horses are cut with a knife because in the workshop I saw a girl working with a knife on a papercut.

Lovely pieces, Elena. Very delicate

hello ElenaM

your colouring is not as bad has mine for you have reminded me of when are armer "nurse come housekeeper in Singapore "
showed me how to do snowflakes cut out the same way from tissue paper I could cut out the snowflakes but they fell a part when colouring them in

So thankyou for bring back so luvverly memory's from some 50 years back

P.s. my armer would bring her's back colour the next day

ollieowl, i wouldn't color the snowflakes but leave them white .

yes but mine turn to a white mess

They are so beautiful Elena - what a delicate and intricate art!!