Fanart: Rodney's Life

[anna_luna]

I finally finished my Valentine's Day Trade for fleurrochard. She traded me a wonderful song and I wanted to make something a bit different for her... And then this idea took over my brain and I've been working on it for weeks.

fleurrochard said she wanted "something about Rodney and music"... so I present to you: Rodney's Life:



Medium: Cut paper (inspired by Robert Ryan and my 6th grade art teacher who we used to do stuff like this with)











The text reads:

"When I was young, I fell in love with music,
but then I was told that music did not love me back,
so I looked for something prettier than music, and found the stars,
and in their orbits and colors and equations, I found music again."

This was a difficult project, but I love the result, the papercuts look awesome on many different backgrounds, but I finally decided to scan them over the stripped paper... I might experiment with them some more later.

Also, I'm sorry for the yellow stripe on the left.,.. my scanner is broken and just puts it there...

Comments

[anna_luna]

:D Thank you very much!

Each sheet is Din A4 sized (a little longer than letter sized) and the letters were *a nightmare* to cut. I did indeed use an exacto knife, and went through 2 blades making all four. Also, there are bits of paper everywhere in my house now.

The secret to good cutting is a good sharp blade (although that can backfire, I often cut *myself*, thankfully there were no accidents during the making of these papercuts) and a surface that the blade can cut into, like a bit of cardboard.