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]]>Peterson fell in love with art as a child, and she was drawn to many different types of creative expression, from working on her pencil drawings to making doll clothes. She pursued her passion for art by studying fine art and industrial and graphic design.
Peterson has also enjoyed nature for as long as she can remember, and she spent a lot of time in her youth exploring the fields and forests near her family home in Michigan. Her love for nature inspired her to start experimenting with floral still life – and the rest is history.
“I realized that I needed a way to create long-lasting still life subjects that wouldn’t wilt before I finished a painting. I started experimenting with paper flowers and quickly discovered that I wanted to spend all of my studio time creating and designing three-dimensional botanical art,” she explains on her official website.
In addition to making the most realistic paper flowers you’ll ever see, Peterson is on a quest to help other people do the same. She offers tutorials on her Patreon page, in addition to hosting virtual workshops on Zoom.
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]]>According to Brown, his main goal is to visualize new ideas and views of the world as an outsider and a non-artist.
“My choice of paper cutting as a vehicle for this exploration of our changing perception of nature is based on its accessibility and simplicity as a medium,” Brown explains on his website. “The transformation of a banal, quotidian material into something visually extraordinary parallels and echoes the radical changes in our vision of the familiar world that science engenders.”
Brown’s detailed works require significant time and effort. They come together thanks to numerous layers of paper placed on top of each other. Some need up to five months to be completed, but one look at them and you realize it was time well spent.
Check out more of these amazing works below.
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]]>Cira is a paper artist who’s currently based in Kansas City, but her upbringing in Mexico significantly shaped her journey as an artist. She grew up surrounded by many great artisans and their devotion to traditional techniques inspired her to make something unique with her own hands.
“Through my art, I hope to share the joy and beauty of paper creations with others. I believe that the process of creating something by hand is a meaningful and meditative experience, and I hope to inspire others to appreciate the value of this process as well,” she wrote on her official website.
The time she spent studying industrial design in college also helped her polish many useful skills she relies on today, from sketching and photography to using Photoshop and Lightroom. They all come in handy when she’s working on her 3D paper models because it’s a long process that involves the use of all these tools.
Andrea Cira is open to exploring different subjects through her art, but a single glance at her Instagram page will quickly reveal her favorite topic. Most of her paper models take the shape of different animals, ranging from birds and snakes to armadillos and turtles.
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]]>Swinburn says on her website that she works with the “geopolitical concept of displacement.” This can be easily seen in the type of paper she uses for her impressive sculptures. They can be geopolitical maps, sheets of music notes, and even documents of “displaced patrimonial treasures.”
In order to make her unique artwork, Swinburn folds the paper in a particular manner to create a bigger pattern and then weaves the sheets into cloaks. These pieces stand on their own as sculptures but are also worn by the artist as part of an art performance.
According to Swinburn, her practice aims to raise awareness “both physically and conceptually” with the aim to “strengthen the integration between various communities from the Global South in making reference to female resilience.”
Swinburn’s works have been displayed in museums and galleries across the world. The artist also frequently shares them on her social media. Continue scrolling to check out more of them below.
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]]>White is a paper artist from Buffalo, New York, who grew up around several visual storytellers. She was surrounded by puppeteers, toymakers, and writers growing up, but eventually decided to embrace the artistic journey of her own when she discovered the art of cutting paper.
White enjoys experimenting with positive and negative space, whose body of work is meant to open up the window to the endless world of possibilities that every piece of paper holds. She’s a huge believer in the healing power of art and wants to spread love and kindness through her work.
“I hope to encourage in the viewer emotional and mental associations with a distant or imaginary past that bring feelings of safety and peace. It is very important to me that my work should help people and should provide them with a safe space,” she writes on her official website.
Nature is White’s main source of inspiration, and many of her paper pieces take the shape of plants and animals. Birds hold a special place in her heart, and she even published a book titled Brave Birds, featuring 65 of her best paper-cut birds.
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]]>As part of the project, Kraus combines paper sculptures of aquatic animals with man-made objects and shows how they change their surroundings. One of Kraus’ creations shows a hermit crab using a rusty tin can as his home, while another one sees a squid tangled in a discarded fishing net.
“With the sculptures I would like to draw attention to the acute problems that our oceans are facing and convey information on the topic in an appealing way,” Kraus explains on her website.
The Paper Life! Ocean series features four paper sculptures of animals affected by ocean pollution, with more expected to come. Kraus also created several paper illustrations that further describe the thought behind the project.
“In the past decade, I have become more and more worried about the future,” the artist told Colossal about the motivation for the project. “The climate crisis, pollution, and the loss of biodiversity already have a big impact on nature and life on this planet.”
Besides the Paper Life! Ocean series, Kraus has worked on a number of other paper art projects in the past. She created pop-up books, paper sculptures, and life-like paper works. Check out more of her works below.
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]]>But it’s a more personal series of his that caught our attention—his book series. In it, he manipulates some of his favorite books into original paper sculptures. “I wanted to create a visual representation of some of my favorite books,” he told A’ Design Award and Competition‘s blog. “Paper-craft seemed the perfect medium to achieve this.”
According to Watts, he challenged himself to do so after rediscovering his love for reading books. “I wanted to challenge myself with a passion project using papercraft to elevate my favorite stories into surreal and imaginative works of art,” he relayed. “I wanted to create a conversation and a guessing game between the viewer of the art and the books they represented.”
His paper hints include the web from Charlotte’s Web and a rose from The Secret Garden. “The entire project is representing the power of reading,” he explained. According to him, in a digital world it’s becoming harder to dedicate time to the classic paperback because reading from screens makes us read slower, learn less deeply, remember less, and sleep worse. “This is why students prefer to print out their electronic textbooks,” he reflected. “This is ‘The Power of the Paperback.'”
“I love creating paper-craft designs,” admits Watts. “They’re a test in patience and problem solving, it’s very exciting when it works.”
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]]>According to his website, his artistic passion sparked early on, with his love for calligraphy starting at just 11 years old, when he took an odd job of writing the names of graduating students’ high school diplomas. This was his first foray into the world of letters and typography.
Growing up, he began his career as a web developer and animator and worked for various clients ranging both local and abroad, from corporate branding and digital advertising to fashion websites.
But we first stumbled upon Cabral’s name when we came across his Endangered Species series, meant at highlighting various endangered species. Using papercutting techniques, he carves portraits of animals such as tigers, pandas, and even pangolins, adding intricate details by hand. The result is breathtaking, to say the least.
His series is supported by the philanthropic organization Acts of Kindness, and is also in partnership with World Wildlife Fund Philippines, with the aim to educate the public about the plight of at-risk animals. According to Cabral, a portion of the sales from this collection has gone towards supporting nature preservation in the Philippines.
See more of his impressive work on Instagram:
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]]>She currently has nearly 400k followers on Instagram that enjoy seeing her new projects daily. While answering their questions in a Q&A session on her account, Lissova said that there’s no secret behind her creativity. “I just love what I do. It motivates me to keep creating,” she wrote.
The artist started creating these adorable miniatures for fun but then found them to be the perfect creative outlet she needed. See more on her Instagram page and follow her if you’d like to get the updates in the future. Below are some of her works we loved the most.
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]]>“I’m drawn to color because it just makes me so happy, it never fails to lift my mood,” explained Blythman in an interview with Kids Gifts and Toys. “When I’m creating new work I decide on a color palette first. Always. At present, I can’t get away from neon pink and peach.”
What an awesome weekend! Thanks to all of my amazing customers and my legend lady friend helpers @saintgertrude and @krystalarvanitis ? NEW Original Collages and Limited Edition Prints will be online today hopefully Her process, which more often than not includes paper collage techniques, involves covering big sheets of watercolor paper in a variety of delicious colors and copper or gold leaf. Blythman then cuts the sheets up only to put them back together again as new artworks. “I often add my signature hand-drawn and painted detail too,” she says.
“When I was young I always loved to cut, paste and layer paper and as a teen I would spend days drawing detailed illustrations of my teen idols,” she recalled. “So I guess in some form or another I’ve always been doing exactly what I still do now,” she adds. “Drawing, cutting + pasting, creating, making things.”
Her recognizable aesthetic has garnered her a legion of fans and a super happy portfolio of work with clients ranging from start-up businesses to high profile Australian and International brands. Here are some of her more eye-popping creations:
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