I had never tried cut outs before, but as I am taking a bookmaking class, one of the assignments was to make a book out of a book.
The only thing that I could think of was picking a book at Strands (a hard book cover) and try to do something related to the title.
The book I picked up was Animals Welcome by Peg Kehret.
I didn't know what I was doing (right or wrong) but I started cutting out silhouettes of animals.
I ended up with something looking like this.
Next morning, I felt that I needed something for the background so that there could be depth in the book.
And here is what I finished with.
I am pretty happy being my first attempt, but I think such careful and delicate work is not for me.