Historical wigs—especially those from the Baroque era—have always fascinated paper artist Asya Kozina. “This is art for art’s sake aesthetics for aesthetics,” she writes, “no practical sense. But they are beautiful.” To celebrate this, she constructed a series of wigs…
Morgana Wallace crafts fantastical female heroines with cut-paper collage. Her colorful creations feature capes, crowns, crows, and more, exciting the imagination with intricate details—each piece has multiple layers and textures that produce a three-dimensional effect. To create these gorgeous illustrations, Morgana works with…
Using an X‑Acto knife and some careful cutting, Ukraine-based artist Eugenia Zoloto creates intricate silhouettes out of twisting vines, beautiful blooms, and winged insects. The large, lacy portraits—around 15 inches by 11 inches—look stunning against a range of backdrops (check out…
Mlle Hipolyte is one of my favorite cut-paper artists working today. I love the meticulousness of her sculptures and the mask-like appearance that they all have. Their exaggerated colors and features give Mlle’s pieces a cartoonish quality, injecting some whimsy into her…
Did you ever play with paper dolls when you were younger? I did, which is one reason I love Yelena Bryksenkova’s collaboration with FLOW Magazine. The third installment of their Book for Paper Lovers is now for sale, and it includes this pullout…
Illustrator Melissa McFeeters participated in The Great Discontent’s 100 Day Project with her own, called #100daysofpapercutz. The Instagram-based series features a myriad of subject matters, including plants, animals, landscapes, and of course, pizza. Her cut outs, with their subtle texture and three-dimensionality,…
Discarded books have found a new life with the work of Isobelle Ouzman. Her intricate, sculptural illustration carve into the publications’ pages, creating mystical landscapes that tell a whole new story—separate from the book’s original tale. Many of her compositions…
“I have always loved flowers,” Hanna Nyman said on Instagram. “My grandmother was a florist and I remember visiting her in the flower shop as a child sitting on the counter just taking all the beauty and scent in!” This long-held adoration…
Ann Wood and Dean Lucker are the duo behind Woodlucker, a studio that creates interactive mechanical sculptures and botanical paper creations. I’ve been on a paper flower kick for a while now, so that’s what I was instantly drawn to…
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 these…