Like Swans Black

Swans are beautiful and majestic creatures and their image is often used to communicate feelings of love, togetherness, commitment, being bound together and pairing up for life.

Swans are elegant, are predominantly white and are a recognisable shape, therefore they have been carefully stylised using clean and sweeping lines. Their bond has also been emphasised in this piece by having their necks entwined, bringing the swans closer together. The swans take centre stage within their colourful surroundings, enveloping and supporting them in their secluded environment.

The artwork has been precisely hand-made using layers of cut, coloured papers to form a bas-relief. The black paper, outlining all the details, is particularly effective, bringing out the various colours and shapes to look a lot like stained glass. Acrylic paints have been used on coloured papers, on all coloured aspects of this artwork, to create a cohesive appearance. There are subtle shadows created by the layering of the various thicknesses of paper, which can be clearly seen.

The depiction for this greeting card is a perfect representation from my meticulously hand-made paper cut artwork, capturing the textures and shadows made by the cut, layered papers that were formally a bas-relief design. 
 
Each greeting card design has been colour matched to ensure consistency with the original artwork. Once each design has been edited and placed onto my greetings card template, the artwork is commercially printed using a high-end digital, batch production process. My greetings cards are a standard 148 mm x 148 mm size and a vertical fold has been selected to allow your card to be displayed effortlessly.

148 x 148 mm Greeting Card / 350 gsm card 

155 x 155 mm White Gummed Envelopes / 120gsm paper

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