In the 1950's he would take postcards of cities, in several instances of the Manhattan skyline, and paste large cut-out shapes on them.

Colour can be introduced into the cut-out shapes to provide a different dimension and different effects can be achieved by moving the puppet (or light source) out of focus.

Invitations with balloons Buy balloons and make a cut-out shape as below with thin cardboard.

The cut-out shapes in these works sweep and tumble, dive and breach, implying a world of birds and water and fish where everything is in motion.

Tangrams are puzzles made of cut-out shapes that can be combined to form other shapes or designs.

The cut-out shapes of the puppets sometimes include translucent color or other types of detailing.

Paint 'splattered' on to cut-out shapes arranged on paper, will produce a silhouette of these shapes when they are removed.

The inception of form liners began with fairly simple images for concrete, including cut-out shapes and silhouettes resting on a background texture.

If you dinged yourself badly, it was no disgrace; we'd stencil a little cut-out shape of a chef knife under your station to commemorate the event.

He also presented another segment where he created art using cut-out shapes from his 'Shape Store'.