I can barely color inside the lines of a children’s coloring book, let alone cut and paste properly, so you can imagine my amazement when I stumbled upon these intricate paper artworks by Melbourne’s Emma Van Leest.
Emma Van Leest's delicate medium is no match for her mounds of creativity. She started out doing collages and then worked her way up to more three-dimensional works of art, which led her to create the masterpieces seen in the above gallery.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Intricate Cut & Paste Art
- Artists can innovate by exploring and combining traditional and new techniques of creating intricate paper artworks.
- Three-dimensional Artworks
- Three-dimensional paper artworks are becoming popular as artists push the boundaries of traditional 2D collages.
- Mixed Media Art
- Artists can explore combining paper, fabric, and other materials to create one-of-a-kind mixed media pieces.
Where This Applies
- Art
- Artists can disrupt the industry by exploring new techniques and pushing the boundaries of traditional art forms.
- Crafts
- Crafters can innovate by exploring the use of paper and other materials in creating intricate works of art.
- Education
- Educators can incorporate the use of paper cutting and collage techniques into art and design curriculums to expand students' creative abilities.
