Fun piece of art I did. I'm swimming with scissors and the fishes. @eng304cripps @ds106dc #tdc2719 pic.twitter.com/BBO7nIQ4DL

— Katherine Smith (@Katheri85988147) June 23, 2019

This daily create was one of the few ones I did that didn’t involve much technological use. We were tasked with creating a piece of art using only scissors and some paper. I knew I wanted to do something somewhat simple since it’s hard to cut good details with the regular scissors I had. After thinking about what I wanted to do for a while, I eventually decided on doing a scuba diver with fish swimming around them. I figured for the scuba diver that I wanted the flippers and mask to be distinct from the person so it was more clear what was going on, so I decided to use distinct colors and base the mask design off of old scuba masks.

PsBattle: This person in an old fashioned diving suit
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Thankfully, my parents haven’t taken out the paper recycling yet, so I had plenty of paper to choose from. I decided on a newspaper for the body, since it was a neutral color, and green from a flyer for the mask and flippers. I also drew the mask on to be more realistic. On the same flyer was some blue, so I cut out some bubbles to add detail to the art. I then picked out another flyer and cut out some tiny fish to complete the work. I put them on a piece of printer paper to get the background. For the Twitter caption, I thought it would be interesting to use the double meaning of “swimming with the fishes”, so I did that as well as make a reference to the fact that my art was made with scissors.

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