Yesterday, I was heading back home after a busy day in the office when I spotted a familiar illustration on the cover Stylist magazine. Instantly seeing the green and white illustration, I made a b-line towards the man handing the mags out.

As anticipated it was the wonderful paper cutting god, Rob Ryan. His work has inspired me since university and I was once lucky enough to bob a long to a talk he held about his work at Kingston university.

After his talk, I couldn’t resist going up and asking him a quick question.

The question I posed went something like this:

Rob, how do you paper cut all day and not seem to have an indented index finger like mine? (I specialized in a lot of paper cut and collage work myself on my degree course).

His answer was simple:

Masking tape, wrap it several times around the blade of the craft knife leaving the tip of the blade revealed. Then rest your index finger on the tape!

haha I thought, why didn’t I think of that!