I have finished Ketuba papercut, but upon further consideration, I don’t want to post it. I don’t know who all the people following my page are and who they know, so I don’t want to steal the thunder from the couple who commissioned itI did post the sketch and beginning of the process, and while I worked.It was a massive project.Welcome everyone to my page!Hello to my faithful followers who comment and leave likes so I know my work is seen and appreciated 🪬Hello to the new faces 🖖🕊️Thank you all for being here.I started this post with something else in mind but as often happens, it went in a direction of its own.So, instead of writing a whole new shpil, I will wish you Shabbat Shalom on here.SHABBAT SHALOM 🖖🕊️Many artists (well,I should not speak for others)…I am a diffident person.Good or bad 🤷‍♀️…just a part of my personality.Good, because I always question myself and strive to do better.Bad, because I can’t pose as “special, one and only” like Michelangelo and therefore can’t sell, like Van Gogh could not, my artwork to the level where I make a comfortable living.Van Gogh had his brother and I have mine 😊😘This is not a complaint, but an observation.One’s ability to sell has very little to do with one’s talents.Everything to do with one’s personality.In my 30 year post graduate career (I have been making art since I was apparently 6 years old, my first award…we are talking 50 years ago and in Soviet Union…there was no such thing as participation trophies ) I can think of only handful of times when the customer wasn’t satisfied or it took a while to get to the desired effect.I say, that is an achievement 😇This case of Ketuba was astounding to me from the very beginning.My first drawing (to size) was accepted right away.My papercut, and I was really worried because it didn’t look exactly like the drawing I presented…it rarely does, was too!I create a drawing to give artwork a particular direction, to keep composition and proportions, but as cutting (taking away) and drawing (adding on) are very different processes, plus in papercutting everything has to be connected and not so in drawing, it just can’t be a faithful rendition.Hence, all the artworks based on drawings are somewhat different.I sent a photo of the papercut before it was mounted (I always do with commissions) while some changes could be made and if, god forbid, the whole artwork needs to be scrapped (never happened, but as you are the one who will live with the artwork, I will respect your opinion) and expected to wait a week or so before response….it being a workweek and two people have to talk it over…Two days later I received my answer.“WOW! It’s perfect!”I will now cut two mats.One to attach the papercut. Remember, it will go around the text of the Ketuba.The other to go around the papercut so when framed it will work as a separation between the artwork and the glass as well as for aesthetic reasons.Art is one thing.Art presentation is a whole different thing.This post end up being a bit of a tutorial and a glimpse into the making not an inspiration of an artwork.Like everything, art has two sides: divine aka inspiration and earthly aka craftsmanship.This post is dedicated to the craftsmanship.Be well everyone 🖖Shabbat Shalom 🕊️