A Study in Paper #7: Холмс и Ватсон

[ldhenson]

So aeroferret continued to feed my crafting addiction by giving me a shiny new craft knife ♥ Well, of course I had to put it to good use.

A paper-cutting for the Russian Sherlock Holmes series.


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Despite being a fairly straightforward design, this one took an entire week to finish (by contrast, I did #6 in a single evening). The tricky bit wasn't the actual cutting process--which, granted, still took a long time--but rather the planning, pulling all the elements together while still keeping the central portrait of Holmes and Watson clean and simple. Sometimes things just take a while to coalesce.





But I'm very happy with the final result.

Plus it's a nice complement to my Russian!SH pendant :-)





And one more pic, in different lighting:





Cut from cardstock. A little over 6.5" x 10.25", before folding.


X-posted to cox_and_co (here), craftgrrl (here), geekcrafts (here), my dA, 221b_bakerst (here)

Comments

[grey-summer.livejournal.com]

Love it. It's absolutely gorgeous.
Sherlock looks somehow surprised here)

[tweedisgood.livejournal.com]

Love the lettering as a frame and Solomin is instantly recognisable!

[galwithglasses.livejournal.com]

I love that last one with the shadow. I love that your art makes more art.

[reasonabsurd.livejournal.com]

Are those the banisters from their staircase?
And you got Solomin's little Russian nose!
I like the shadow photo. You should try taking more photos like that. Maybe even experiment with the angle of the light.

[morelindo.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that is so gorgeous. You're so talented and these are just something completely different, I am in awe every time you post a new one.
Thank you for sharing these with us.

[sazzat.livejournal.com]

That's really beautiful. The Russian series is my favourite too, so I love this :D

[suddenlyflying.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's very lovely! I like how the silhouettes are very obviously them.

[specialcamper.livejournal.com]

Yay! This is fantastic! I think Vitaly Solomin is my favorite Watson.

[schonste.livejournal.com]

je l'adore!! ahh...so pretty. it's funny b/c I first saw it and thought it was just a canon cutout, AND I RECOGNIZED RUSSIAN WATSON'S LITTLE LIPPY POUT.
this is awesome. ♥

[ironicbees.livejournal.com]

Love it, especially the Cyrillic names on the sides. ♥ How do you get all these great ideas?

Neat pendant, too!

[heehee11.livejournal.com]

Wow! You're brilliant! (and I'll repeat it when you'll post more!) Again, the pictures you take of your work are really nice too. And #6 was soooo romantic! This one too, btw ^^

[ryals-shoal.livejournal.com]

Fantastic work and great pictures! This is such a fantastic piece of art, and a wonderful piece of Sherlock Holmes art! ♥

[sarahk-2009.livejournal.com]

I always love your work! But that shadow picture is absolutely manufique! (or however you spell that word! c(:<) lol

[fullofowls.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful! I wish I had such skill.

[railise]

This is amazing-- I'm always awed to see your papercuts on geekcrafts. You have a real gift!!

[rabidsamfan.livejournal.com]

lovely!

[rustlemybustle.livejournal.com]

This is beautiful, what a unique way of making fanart. I'm in love!

[nathcoelho.livejournal.com]

thats really awesome! love it! =D

[storyfan.livejournal.com]

This is stunning, especially "the art makes more art" bit of it. It reminds me of the glass work of Preston Singletary, who creates his Northwest American Indian pieces so that they reflect on surfaces.

A sample: http://www.craftinamerica.org/artists_glass/pic_14.jpg

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

That is amazing. I love the Cyrillic lettering.

[days-of-storm.livejournal.com]

I adore the Russian Holmes and Watson! My EngLit professor has it on video tape and we watched it in several seminars :) and this is really spectacularly great :)

[alek-morse.livejournal.com]

I have already come here, on this post, and examined this remarkable artifact with a great pleasure. Finally I have time to say the admiration of your work and tell some thoughts.

But at first a concrete question: do the big pictures show 100% the size of things?

First, I must to say that you have surprisingly cached the essence of the Livanov/Solomin series – a paper and scissors expressed the main idea of this film, I think, and, in most «iconic» form: both Holmes and Watson talk at a fireplace. The filmmakers especially emphasized the fireplace scene, expressing it in the most symbolical form. But your work, in any sense, in some has outdone this symbolic element, after all it is shot in realistic way, and your artifact is an emblem in which a decorative-constructive elements of fireplace portrait a “window” yet, where both Holmes and Watson images are inserted into. It turns out that both Holmes and Watson are not just near the fireplace, and as though against a window of their apartment-fortress. (It was "secondly".)

In short, awesome!

And thirdly: in my opinion, the artistic idea, the material and technology (selected by you) are extremely organic to the art form of the Livanov/Solomin series, each episode that begins with application, installation – a play of letters and words.

[milij-rizhik.livejournal.com]

Love them, love it. Thank you!)

[arkennes.livejournal.com]

Oh wow that's brilliant! I love the Russian writing, the banisters at the top and clean design! I would actually buy this if I saw it :)

[kornet-azarov.livejournal.com]

It's fantastic! You're miracle-worker - creating such miracles just with scissors. Special gratitude for Russian letters and "shadows" photo:o)