Sweet Sentiments in Cut Paper Illustrations by Jotaká

Ya’ll know I love cut paper illus­tra­tions. So, imag­ine my delight when I dis­cov­ered the work of Jotaká, an illus­tra­tor from Valen­cia, Spain. His project called La sies­ta is a per­son­al project “about hugs, the impor­tance and the ide­al time to receive them.” The bright por­traits are a tan­gle of limbs as peo­ple wrap their arms around each oth­er in a lov­ing embrace. Not only humans, though, but oth­er things, too—cats, dogs, books, and records.

There are cou­ple of things I real­ly enjoy about Jotaká’s series: one is the sweet sen­ti­ment that the images con­vey; anoth­er is the styl­is­tic choice of lay­er­ing the paper shapes to cre­ate some depth and three dimensionality.

FYI — I first post­ed La sies­ta on my Tum­blr last Thurs­day night. Fol­low it for some fun illus­tra­tion extras!