Illustration Friday » papercuts/silhouettes http://illustrationfriday.com/blog Tue, 22 May 2012 11:56:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Eva Jospin http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2012/05/03/eva-jospin/ http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/2012/05/03/eva-jospin/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 10:00:40 +0000 penelope http://illustrationfriday.com/blog/?p=4247

Eva Jospin has been dedicating herself for several years to the study of the landscape and its representation. More recently through a unique medium –cardboard. She sculpts large forest scenes. Eva was born in 1975, and lives and works in Paris. Check out more cardboard forests here.

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Simone Lourenco is originally from Brazil and now lives and works in New York. Working primarily with paper, Simone interprets nature (her favorite subject) from memory, often drawing elements with an x-acto knife. First, comes choosing color and next, she carves into the wild, with each cut informing the next move. Simone also enjoys making collages, working with markers, colored pencils and sewing on paper.

Check out her paper cut work here. But be sure to look at the rest of her beautiful work also.

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LA native Jeff Nishinaka does wonders with paper. Prepare to be blown away.

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I recentely got an email about this new book by Shambhala Publications and thought I’d share!

The book presents paper-cutting techniques through clear step-by-step instructions, detailed diagrams, and templates. Once you’ve mastered the basics, you can move on to trying the projects: cards, gift wrap, mobiles, collages, wreaths, aprons, invitations and even lamp shade décor. The projects are presented with beautiful color photographs in the distinctive Japanese craft style for which our Make Good series is known, making for a book that is as attractive as it is informative. From scrapbookers to paper artists, from printmakers to sewers—all crafters will love this book.

Looks like a beauty!

Find out more about the book and purchase it here.

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Check out these wild  paper illustrations by ‘people too’ on Veer ideas!

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Elsa More PaperCut

Elsa Mora PaperCut

 Lately (and by lately I mean for the last three years or so… things are slow in my world) I’ve been noticing all sorts of super wonderous papercut work, or work that looks like paper cuts. It’s a major art form people, and the more you look for it, the more you find it. Trust me, I know! I’ve been collecting links to post here for awhile and my bookmark folder is fair burgeoning! (um, not sure what that phrase is supposed to mean exactly, but it sounds like fancy pirate talk so I left it in there)

To get us started on the whole multi-post papercut/silhouette thang, I can think of no better place to begin than Elsa Mora (see Elsa’s blog here and Elsa’s fab Flickr gallery here . A fabulous multi media artist in her own right, Elsa’s papercuts are exquisite and whimsical. But that’s not all… Elsa has a blog dedicated entirely to the art of papercuts (here! Click Here!). She provides links to tons of fabulous papercut artist in the right hand column there and I encourage you to rifle thru them… the scope of some of these works is simply mind-boggling.

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