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Last year, before my brother came out as transgendered (and was still a dude) I made him a paper cut of himself in his Canada Post uniform, as a surprise present for his birthday. He loved it. Like, went on and on about how much he loved it, which was really nice. Like most adults, he's pretty hard to buy gifts for, and we aren't very close, so that makes it even harder.
Fast forward to this year, and my now-sister asked if I would make a paper cut for her, and I agreed. I had actually thought that it would be nice to do a more updated one, but was waiting for her to be farther along in her transition before offering.
So a few weeks ago she texts me on my phone, a photo of a dog, two photos of cats, and a picture of some woman I don't know. Um, what? "Oh," she says, "can you do paper cuts of all of these?" Ha. No. I guess I didn't make the distinction of FOR her and OF her. She wanted me to basically make all of her Christmas presents for her, I guess? And since she has no eye for art, all of the pictures were shitty, cellphone pictures. Not focused, tops of heads cut off, etc. Not the kind of thing that you would make art from.
I told her I would make ONE for her, but that was it. Geez! Presumptuous much? She said she would pay me for my time and supplies, but she doesn't have a pot to piss in, so that would never happen.
Anyhoo, I told her to pick one subject and she went with the dog, which I assume belonged to a friend of hers, since she doesn't have a dog. Like I said, the photo was shit, so I searched the webz for a similar looking red wiener dog, and came up with a suitable candidate. I download it, do my photoshop magic to separate the layers of colour and print out the sheets with the individual layers for cutting. I was out of knives, so I went and bought some more, then went to bed.
Of course, in the morning, I get a text from her saying "Good morning, sis. If you haven't started the pic, don't worry about it."
I replied: "I have started it. What's up?"
"Don't need it anymore."
"Why?"
"Just don't."
facepalm. Cryptic much? I guess she had a fight with this person, but I was not going to waste my time begging her for details. Geez, it's like when people post to Facebook "Oh, I'm so upset right now." and nothing else. I FUCKING HATE THAT! Tell me what happened, or shut the fuck up!
Long story short, I had already done the not-fun legwork for the paper cut, so I finished it anyway. Does anyone know someone with a wiener dog? I'm willing to sell it extra cheap, since *I* don't have one! :D
Fast forward to this year, and my now-sister asked if I would make a paper cut for her, and I agreed. I had actually thought that it would be nice to do a more updated one, but was waiting for her to be farther along in her transition before offering.
So a few weeks ago she texts me on my phone, a photo of a dog, two photos of cats, and a picture of some woman I don't know. Um, what? "Oh," she says, "can you do paper cuts of all of these?" Ha. No. I guess I didn't make the distinction of FOR her and OF her. She wanted me to basically make all of her Christmas presents for her, I guess? And since she has no eye for art, all of the pictures were shitty, cellphone pictures. Not focused, tops of heads cut off, etc. Not the kind of thing that you would make art from.
I told her I would make ONE for her, but that was it. Geez! Presumptuous much? She said she would pay me for my time and supplies, but she doesn't have a pot to piss in, so that would never happen.
Anyhoo, I told her to pick one subject and she went with the dog, which I assume belonged to a friend of hers, since she doesn't have a dog. Like I said, the photo was shit, so I searched the webz for a similar looking red wiener dog, and came up with a suitable candidate. I download it, do my photoshop magic to separate the layers of colour and print out the sheets with the individual layers for cutting. I was out of knives, so I went and bought some more, then went to bed.
Of course, in the morning, I get a text from her saying "Good morning, sis. If you haven't started the pic, don't worry about it."
I replied: "I have started it. What's up?"
"Don't need it anymore."
"Why?"
"Just don't."
facepalm. Cryptic much? I guess she had a fight with this person, but I was not going to waste my time begging her for details. Geez, it's like when people post to Facebook "Oh, I'm so upset right now." and nothing else. I FUCKING HATE THAT! Tell me what happened, or shut the fuck up!
Long story short, I had already done the not-fun legwork for the paper cut, so I finished it anyway. Does anyone know someone with a wiener dog? I'm willing to sell it extra cheap, since *I* don't have one! :D
