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MA: Notan Light Dark PC

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MA: Notan Light Dark PC
Swap Coordinator:Lady (contact)
Swap categories: Handmade 
Number of people in swap:8
Location:International
Type:Type 3: Package or craft
Rating requirement:4.92
Last day to signup/drop:September 1, 2017
Date items must be sent by:September 21, 2017
Number of swap partners:1
Description:

Let's do more with negative space. Create one postcard using notan. It's a (paper cutting? and) collage technique and Japanese for "light dark harmony". Not complicated (unless you want it to be)

Take a square of dark paper, a white piece of paper (or one covered with small patterned paper), adhesive/glue, pencil and pair of scissors. Draw several simplified images. Cut half of each image in the dark square and flip the cut-out piece over to complete the mirror image of each image. Then attach/glue all the bits to the larger sheet of paper. The "square" in the initial image is 3" x 3.5" for on a 6" x 4.25" postcard. The yellow in it does not provide as much contrast as I think it "should".

I've collected some tutorials and notan pictures that I liked on a Design-notan Pinterest board. You can see the board without a Pinterest account but you won't be able to follow links, so here are links for the tutorials I found:

Size is sender's choice. Whatever's legal to mail from your country. Seems many folk seem to like the 6x 4 inch size. I tend to use 6" x 4.25" since it's the largest I can mail within the USA with a postcard stamp.

Discussion

graciepie49 08/26/2017 #

This is just fabulous!! I have been wanting to find and make a Notan swap. I LOVE the technique and seeing this swap posted made my day! ☺

Angie 09/ 1/2017 #

Way cool! Thanks for the visual examples. I was baffled at first! LOL.

Lady 09/ 4/2017 #

So sorry I took days to assign partners, I added some time to the swap for you!

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