Final Experiments

I got hold of some beautiful semi-transparent papers [thank you Christine!] that I thought Id play with in place of paper or tissue paper on the lanterns, and they came out really well!

Here I used a green peice that had little trees printed on it, and put it behind a cut out and printed hansel and gretel lantern to see what it looked like. I love the colour you get when you put a light behind it, and it really stands out against the black and the white and looks very sickly thanks to the green. 

I definatly think I am going to go further with these papers as they are much stronger than tissue/normal paper, and they give a lovely effect.

Here are the first cut out designs of the snow white lanterns. 

I used the laser cutter to cut out the lanterns panels, then printed a mixture of acrylic and poster paint over the paper before sticking it behind the cut out. I then put the snow white figure behind the paper so that in normal light, snow white can hardly be seen, but when put over a candle or other light, she shines through. 

It helps to create an almost eerie look to the lanterns, and give an bit more gothicness to the tale. 

   

I used the green paper here over the second snow white, which gives a really gothic and sickly feel which compliments the idea that in this panel she is being suffocated by the bodice ribbons. The cloud lino print dosent show too well in the photo, but does in real life and creates a nice subtle background.
You also get a nice texture from the print on the paper, which gives an organic feel that contrasts with the smooth lines of the cut-out elements. 

With this panel, I used normal paper and printed a purple cloud design over it before sticking it behind the frame. When put over a light, it creates a nice warm glow and the figure shows through, but it does looks rather dull with no light behind, and i think it is too white.
The paper also creases and buckles during the printing which gives an unpleasant look.

  

I used greaseproof paper here and printed over that. I dont like the look, as it is too transparent and the print dosent look very nice, far too textured and broken up.

This was simular to the first experiment with the green paper, but this time using the red/purple paper that gives a really nice effect. Its looks really gothic but pretty at the same time and compliments the beauty of the figure. The piece looks just as good without a light behind it so Im defiantly going to use the green and the red papers in the final design as they looked really good.

In these experiments, i used purple card to cut out the lantern frame, and although it looks nice, i think if I used black, it would create a much better contrast against the light up area and give a more gothic Victorian feel.