Artist Spends a Year Cutting World’s Longest Strip of Paper from Single A4 Sheet
Chinese origami artist Pei Haozheng spent a whole year painstakingly cutting an A4 sheet of paper into a 108-meter-long strip to set a unique world record. Pei, also known as Hotz Pei, is no stranger to Guinness world records. He once folded the most origami flowers made from a single sheet of paper(100), and then […]
Talented Artist Creates Beautiful Artworks with Hundreds of Strips of Paper
Bekah Stonefox is a 45-year-old artist from the UK who specializes in creating intricate works of art with hundreds of colorful strips of paper. The talented artist has been honing her quilling skills for the last five years, and has put together quite the impressive collection of artworks, from detailed portraits of imaginary human characters, […]
The Amazingly Realistic Paper Bird Sculptures of Diana Beltran Herrera
Colombian artist Diana Beltran Herrera creates incredibly realistic bird sculptures by carefully attaching bits of colored paper. To say Diana Beltran Herrera’s hands are super-precise instruments would be an understatement. The talented artist uses her innate dexterity and years of practice to create amazingly-detailed models of various birds, from the common sparrow to tropical parrots, […]
Artistic Duo Create The Most Elaborate Paper Wigs
Ukrainian-Russian art duo Asya Kozina and Dmitriy Kozin are taking paper craft to new heights with their elaborate and flamboyant wigs made entirely out of paper. Inspired by Baroque and Rococo wigs, the talented couple and art duo create their own modern wigs out of pristine white paper. The unique choice of material only makes […]
Artist Creates Giant Realistic Flowers Out of Paper
Tiffanie Turner, a San Francisco based artist, is best known for her ability to craft incredibly realistic flowers out of paper. She cuts petals out of delicate Italian crepe paper and sews them together to resemble the creases and folds of flowers. When photographed, it’s nearly impossible to tell these fake flowers apart from real ones! […]
Li Hongbo’s Flexible Paper Sculptures Will Blow Your Mind
Chinese artist Li Hongbo’s sculptures look no different from the classic white Roman-style plaster busts that many sculptors create. But the real magic begins only when you get close and touch them. What appeared to be plaster, reveals itself to be multiple layers of very thin paper. Li’s technique is stunning – He sketches his […]
Artist Creates Incredibly Realistic Papercraft Birds
Dutch artist Johan Schreft creates three-dimensional lifesize models of birds from pieces of paper. To make his works even more realistic he paints each one by hand with watercolors and gouache. The results are simply mind-blowing. Leiden-based Johan Schreft showed an interest in drawing as well as animals and nature at a very young age. Inspired […]
Russian Teacher Creates Mind-Blowing Modular Origami Models of Famous Cathedrals
42-year-old Sergei Tarasov, a school teacher from the Russian village of Tigritskoe, has recently completed an incredibly detailed modular origami model of Moscow’s St. Basil cathedral, from over 10,000 A4 sheets of paper. Origami is as hard as it is impressive, and it just amazes me how some people can just take some common pieces of […]
Belgian Artist Creates Elaborate Dresses Out of Simple Sheets of Paper
Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave can use sheets of paper to create incredible garments many designers can’t really make out of fabric. At first glance, Isabelle de Borchgrave’s creations seems made of expensive materials like silk, pleated cotton and damask, but in reality, her 18th century-inspired garments are made exclusively from paper. The Brussels-based artist […]
The Delicate Paper-Cutting Art of Hina Aoyama
You’ve probably seen intricate paper-cut art before, but Hina Aoyama takes it to a whole new level by achieving an incredible level of detailed using only scissors. Unlike other artists who use fine tools like an X-acto knife to create elaborate pieces of paper-cut art, Japanese-born Hina Aoyama only uses a pair of scissors and […]
Artist Folds Realistic Insects from a Single Sheet of Paper
As real as these insects might look, they are actually made from a single sheet of paper, expertly folded by origami master, Brian Chan. I’ve been staring at Brian Chan’s creations for a while, and I still find it mind-boggling how someone can produce such realistic work by folding a simple piece of paper. But […]
Babushka Artwork Takes Quilling to a Whole New Level
I’ve always found quilling a fascinating art form, but after seeing Yulia Brodskaya’s mind-blowing “Babushka” I feel there’s nothing a talented artist can’t do with just a few colorful strips of paper. I discovered quilling a year ago, and since then I have posted a number of impressive works of art created using only strips […]
Artist Makes Detailed Architectural Models from Paper
US-based artist Christina Lihan uses her experience as an architect to create detailed models of famous buildings and urban spaces, from paper. Ms. Lihan received a Bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Virginia and went on to get her Master’s in architecture, from Columbia University, in New York. She done internships in England, […]
Artist Makes Intricate Cutouts from Hardcore Adult Magazines
Can pornography be art? That’s the question artist Tom Gallant is trying to answer through his series of beautiful paper cutouts made from archived adult magazines. Brussels-based Tom Gallant describes his unique art as a visual language “dealing with a private matter in a very public way”. Using a very sharp scalpel, he cuts into […]
The Mind-Blowing Origami Sculptures of Eric Joisel
Eric Joisel was one of the most gifted origami artists the world has ever seen, and even though he recently passed away, he lives on through his amazing folded paper masterpieces. Eric Joisel dedicated most of his life to art, in many of its forms, including drawing and sculpting. He took up origami in 1983, […]