French illustrator Julia Spiers has created Saisons, a 3D installation that depicts a sprawling, dream-like scene. To create it, she first painted the watercolor figures on paper, cut each piece out, and then arranged them in the formation you see here. Looking at the style of…
If you’ve read this blog for even a little while, you know that I’m a big fan of cut paper illustrations. These are two projects—by different illustrators—that I’ve enjoyed, and I thought you would too! If you follow me on…
People love their pets, so naturally, they have artworks made in their honor. Russian-based illustrators Alexey Lyapunov and Lena Erlich— aka People Too—created a delightful series that imagines their clients’ animals as decorated war heroes, dainty ladies, and learned fellows. They’re totally…
I need to plan a visit to Montreal! Yelena Bryksenkova has recently completed a window display at Citizen Vintage, a vintage clothing store. She hand-cut the design out of paper and attached it directly to the glass with strategically-laced double-stick…
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…
Color me impressed with these vibrant paper sculptures by Miguel Dias! He’s crafted a pair of binoculars, a meat grinder, and a soap bottle all by hand, folding and cutting the material into the proper low-poly shapes. The geometric forms also…
Nebraska-based artist Meghan Stratman fashions her colorful portraits into telling vignettes, as if you were looking at a film still or a comic book panel. “I am drawn to stories and lore in all forms,” she writes, “books, movies, video games, theatre, myths,…
Not too long ago, I shared some of Mlle Hipolyte’s amazing paper-crafted masks. Since then, I’ve been keeping an eye on her work. I was perusing Instagram yesterday and saw snippets of her mural-sized paper project. How great! And, better yet, Mlle…
So it’s not exactly the new year, but there’s still plenty of time to enjoy this cut paper piece by Ink Studio. Look closely, and you’ll see that this colorful landscape spells out “15” (as in 2015). It’s part of their…
Faye Moorhouse is an illustrator who I’ve admired for years. The Brighton-based creative works in water-based media and lets it flow freely on the page. I love its looseness and seeing the feathered ink create their own diffused texture separate from…