Paper Clothing and Paper Dolls

We have featured paper art before but nothing of this scale.  Asya Kozina (Ася Козина) is very versatile, creating from, intricate full scale costumes to, detailed paper dolls and masks.  The intricate nature of the costumes must make them very prone to damage, at any excessive movement, the models must have had to have been so careful.

Quilling Designs for Recycled Paper Jewelry

Italian Architect and Artist from Quilly Paper Design uses paper to make jewelry earrings, bracelets and necklaces.  The method she uses to shape the paper is called Quilling.  Quilling is an art form that uses a number strips of paper rolled up to accomplish a more complex design.  As you may have guessed we have not been able to discover the name of this artist, but what we have been able to find out is that, all her creations are made from recycled paper and that the attraction for this form of art, started when she bought a book for her little girl, that explained how to create quilling designs.

Cast Paper Sculptures

Husband and Wife Allen and Patty Eckman produce these lovely and expressive paper sculptures.  They use a method called Cast Paper, that is said to have originated in Mexico in the 1950s, the Eckmans came up with their own way of working the paper, which they call the Eckman Method®.  In brief this is the process,  a sculpture is made, from that they make a mould, unbleached paper pulp is added to it, then they remove as much as the the water as they can, then comes the real work of sculpting and detailing of the paper.  Depending on the size and the level of detail of the piece, it can take a few months to complete.  Because the light colouring of the sculptures, you will be able to see more of the details, if you enlarge the images, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).

Quilling Paper Alphabet

Freelance Illustrator, Typographer, Calligrapher and Paper Sculptor  Sabeena Karnik from Mumbai, India, created these lovely paper letter sculptures from A to Z using the Art form called Quilling.

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Quilling Paper Art and Hand Cut Paper Work

Paper Engineer Creating Paper Art

This artist uses paper to construct beautifully flowing shapes, that really give a sense of motion.

Hand - Body Painting - Transferred to Paper

Russell Powell from Pangaean Studios, is an Artist and a really cool Teacher.  He draws portraits of every day people and the occasional celebrity, on his hand and then, using it as a stamp, he transfers the drawing on the sheet of paper.  The unusual procedure, of creating art in this way, is what drew us to Powell, we have chosen the images that include both, the hand drawn original and the stamped copy.  Enjoy...

Quilling Recycled Paper Jewelry

Quilling and jewelry come together in these amazing designs.

Paper Cut, Celebrity Photo Realistic Portraits

We are really impressed with the work that Yoo Hyun produces, he slices and crumples the paper in order to create realistic portraits of famous people.  Below we have tried to show just how he manages to accomplish this beautiful effect, by adding an animation, plus another close-up detail.  The advantage that come with this kind of art is that, to refresh it, you just need to change the background and the images will adopt a completely different feel.  Enjoy...

Quilling - Paper & Photo Portraits

Latvian Artist Eugenia Evseeva creates the lovely quilling portraits.  Wikipedia Defines this form of Art as; (Quilling or Paper Filigree is an art form that involves the use of strips of paper that are rolled, shaped, and glued together to create decorative designs).  Evseeva uses pictures for the face and the body and uses the coloured paper for the hair, clothes, flowers, jewellery and hats.  See if you can spot some of the celebrities.

Realistic Portraits, mostly Ink on Paper Drawings

Serbian Freelance Artist Predrag Djukic has a love for drawings, painting, watercolors, sketches, realism and a variety of subject matter.  Amongst his works, we have chosen his portraits, the reason for the title is that, all of the drawings, apart from the two at the end, are drawn using ink on paper, for the last two, he used pencil on paper.

Paper Drawings Create Imaginary Worlds

American Artist Joe Iurato constructs very clever photographic compositions using layers of hand cut paper and spray paint to create texture and form.  The images contain a story that is as good as your imagination, generating a fantasy world for the paper image to live in.

Dreaming of Silhouettes in Paper Cuttings

Dmytro and Iuliia from Dream Papercut create sweet silhouettes from cutting paper.  Each image is hand cut and all, are made from a single sheet of paper.  They cleverly bring them to life, by setting them up in front of various complementary backgrounds that frame them beautifully.  Enjoy...

Paper Jewellery

Ever thought you could make Jewellery out of paper?  Jeremy May has and he did "Literary Jewels".  He produces Rings, Bracelets, Necklaces / Pendants and Earrings.  We have chosen to focus on the Rings as they display the best of the characteristics of this fascinating and beautiful means of production.  Pages are taken from books. Music Scores Colour Paper...   May does not reveal his process, except for saying that it is some kind of laminating process, but does not go into details as to how he gets these precision lines on them.   Because the paper he uses is always different, his creations are guaranteed to be a one-off and virtually impossible to reproduce.  To get the best effect, once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).

If you like rings, have a look at Star Wars Rings Sculptures.

Artistry and Innovation with Paper Jewelry Rings

Yes they are made out of paper, British artist Jeremy May, started with having to create something for his 1st anniversary (known for the paper gift) and the ring was born from paper.  He then expanded to Bracelets, Necklaces / Pendants and Earrings.  We are going to cover rings today. It can take up to 8 weeks to complete a piece, each piece is unique, with a ring costing on average €400 and he makes about 100 pieces a year.  When his customers put in an order they specify a book, out of which the piece has to be made.  The book serves as the container for the piece, which when laid inside it, is sent to the customer.  It took him 2 years to perfect the laminating process which, he is not prepared to divulge.  That said, he does show part of the process in the video below.

Cut Paper Designs

Bovey Lee creates these intricately precise cut paper designs.  We have chosen a variety of the compositions she has cut out of paper, throughout the years.  There are some fantastic patters, scenes and deceptively easy and simple deigns like the feathers.  There are a lot of qualities needed to produce this kind of artwork, precision, eye for detail and composition but most of all, the patience of a saint to cut out the minute details that make them so wonderful to look at.  You are going to have to enlarge the images to see the details, press the image to do this, (not the first one).

Quilling Paper Art

Incredibly pretty and accurate art form called Quilling. Lovely colourful and well detailed compositions from UK company PaperGraphic. Enjoy these relaxing and soothing patterns.

Animal Paper cut-outs Colored by Nature

️Journalist and Art lover Nikolai Tolstyh cuts out silhouettes of animals and then gets nature to do the coloring-in by using different natural settings as his background. This summer we saw Fashion Illustrator Shamekh Al-Bluwi, use the same technique, with his cut-outs but, he was showing female silhouettes with Architectural backgrounds, this is the link to the post "Drawings with Architectural Backgrounds".  We don't want to start arguments here and we just wanted to state that, we don't know who came up with the idea first.  We have shown the images as simple GIF animations to highlight just how good an artist Nature really is.

Stitched Paper Sculptures

Jennifer Collier uses paper the same way other artists use cloth and more rigid materials.   @paperjennifer uses various ways to work with this material, that most people see as a flimsy medium, by bonding, waxing, trapping, but mostly stitching.  Collier uses old maps books and paper that are destined for recycling or landfill.  We have included a video that shows Collier's amazing process in action.  Once in the article you can enlarge the image by pressing it (not the first one).  Enjoy...

Beauty and Precision in Paper Cut Silhouettes

Indian Artist Parth Kothekar, unifies beauty and precision, in his paper cut silhouettes.  As well as that, he puts so much details, that must add a lot of difficulty when drawing and cutting these intricate patterns.  Kothekar started off with graffiti art, when cutting a stencil, he came up with the idea of transitioning to paper cut art.  It was initially a hobby, that has now become for him, a profession.  We have included a bit of a cross section of Kothekar's work below.

Beautiful Designs Accomplished with Paper Quilling Art

Beautiful art created with strands of paper.