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Showing posts with label cut paper art. Show all posts

Hand Cut Illuminated Paper Art by Hari & Deepti


hari & deepti hero IIHIH

Harikrishan Panicker and Deepti Nair, who both hail from India, go by the duo artist name of Hari & Deepti. Together they create small and large diorama artworks made of intricately cut layered paper lit by LED lights.

Tree of Light, unlit and lit:
tree of life unlit and lit IIHIH
Spirit of the Forest (lit and unlit):
Spirit of the forest (lit and unlit) IIHIH
The Protector (lit and unlit):
The protector (lit and unlit) IIHIH
Spacedust:
spacedust IIHIH
Fire Wolves and the Lone Warrior:
fire wolves and the lone warrior IIHIH
When Life Gives You Lemons (left) and Where I Belong (right):
when life gives you lemons and where I belong IIHIH
The Light in the Forest:
the light in the forest IIHIH
Utopia:
utopia IIHIH
The Golden Stag (left) and Uncharted Waters (right):
the golden stag and uncharted waters IIHIH
When The Dust Settles:
when the dust settles IIHIH
Moonlight Drowns Out All But The Brightest Stars:
moonlight drown out all but the brightest stars IIHIH
The Protector 3 (and detail):
The protector3 and detail IIHIH
The Illuminated One (also shown cropped at the top of this post):
the illuminated one IIHIH

Artworks as they appear in Galleries:
luminous beings gallery view IIHIH hari and deepti gallery view

About the artists:
Hari & Deepti are an artist couple currently based out of Denver, Colorado.

Hari (whose full name is Harikrishnan Panicker) is a trained graphic designer and illustrator. He was born and raised in Mumbai, India where he was the senior designer for MTV Networks India and has designed for brands like MTV India, VH1 India, Nickelodeon & Comedy Central. Apart from designing for these brands, he is also an established illustrator and has designed album covers for musicians like Dualist Inquiry and has been invited to design a cover for Rolling Stone India for their annual – Art as Cover Edition. He loves to collect and customize vinyl toys, is obsessed with drawing monsters, loves to screen print & secretly aspires to be in space some day. He fell in love with paper cut art after seeing Balinese shadow puppets and has since been experimenting with paper and light.

Deepti Nair is a certified geek and is usually seen designing complex systems for a leading Telecom company as an Interaction Designer. “My day job helps me keep sane and makes me appreciate the time and opportunity I get to create art a lot more” says Deepti. She is a trained artist and prefers staying away from the computer to create or assist in her art. She believes that art has to be felt and experienced. She specializes in working with paper cut, acrylic and loves sculpting with clay.

Hari & Deepti moved to Denver from India and carried with them a Pandora box full of stories and imagination that they bring to life through their intricate paper cut light boxes and paper clay sculptures. They have always been drawn towards the imaginative aspect of story telling and seek inspiration from them. Stories have so many shades and depth in them, and paper as a medium has the exact qualities to reflect and interpret them. They believe that “Paper is brutal in its simplicity as a medium. It demands the attention of the artist while it provides the softness they need to mold it in to something beautiful. It is playful, light, colorless and colorful. It is minimal and intricate. It reflects light, creates depth and illusions in a way that it takes the artist through a journey with limitless possibilities.”

They started experimenting with paper cut shadow boxes in 2010 with hand painted watercolor paper which was then cut and assembled in a wooden box to create a diorama, with years of practice their art became more intricate and minimal at the same time. They started experimenting with lights and simplified their pieces by losing the colored aspect of the paper. They have since then evolved to add their own style of paper cut art incorporating back-lit light boxes using flexible LED strip lights.

“What amazes us about the paper cut light boxes is the dichotomy of the piece in its lit and unlit state, the contrast is so stark that it has this mystical effect on the viewers.”

They are constantly evolving their art with more complex representation of stories and aspects, like reflections in the water.

See more of their work here

images and info courtesy of The Black Book

The Latest Paper Sculptures, Editorial and Advertising Work From Su Blackwell




The enchanting book sculptures by Su Blackwell have been featured commercially and in fine art galleries around the world. Created on various scales, her amazing craft has been used as full sized sets for videos, theater productions and television commercials, window displays and editorials as well as compelling small boxed sculptures, installations and fine art exhibitions.


above: Su Blackwell's The Little Prince


above: for The 2008 Snow Queen video

While many art sites and blogs showcased her talents, it's been awhile and she has some new work worth sharing.  Here's a look at some of her latest (2012-2013).

Snow White:

Editorial:

Nature:

The Last Unicorn:

Rose:


2013 Editorial work for Intelligent Life Magazine, Oprah Magazine and Real Simple Magazine:


Some of her earlier pieces from 2009-2011 That I especially favor:
Out of Narnia, 2009:


Little Red Riding Hood, 2010:



Baron In the Trees, 2011



Su Blackwell's work is often used in advertising and marketing because it's a nice and unique way to conveyy people and places that is different from photography. Many large brands (Cartier, Volvo, British Airways, to name a few) have featured her work in their stores, commercials and print ad campaigns.

British Airways:


The Fairmont Hotels have commissioned her work on a few occasions:


Crabtree & Evelyn posters:


Volvo:


Pilsner Urquell:


Harper's Bazaar editorial:


Theater set for The Snow Queen:


Video set for Indah:


In-store installations:



Su talks about her craft in this video from the artist:


Available starting December 5th, 2013 (and can be pre-ordered now here) is this Artist Monograph from Su that catalogs her work from 2006-2013:

above: Su Blackwell 'Book Sculptures', Case-bound, hard-back with 84 full-colour pages. Measures 297mm x 210mm.

Su says of her work:
”I often work within the realm of fairy-tales and folk-lore. I began making a series of book-sculpture, cutting-out images from old books to create three-dimensional diorama’s, and displaying them inside wooden boxes”.

”For the cut-out illustrations, I tend to lean towards young-girl characters, placing them in haunting, fragile settings, expressing the vulnerability of childhood, while also conveying a sense of childhood anxiety and wonder. There is a quiet melancholy in the work, depicted in the material used, and choice of subtle colour.”

Paper has been used for communication since its invention; either between humans or in an attempt to communicate with the spirit world. I employ this delicate, accessible medium and use irreversible, destructive processes to reflect on the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of our life, dreams and ambitions.
-- Su Blackwell, 2007

A great holiday gift for both young and old is the book, The Fairy-Tale Princess: Seven Classic Stories from the Enchanted Forest, which features seven classic fairy tales, imaginatively retold and illustrated with Su's specially commissioned paper-cut constructions:






buy it here

Her online shop features laser cut greeting cards, signed monographs, prints of her work, journals and more.

Su Blackwell Studio Ltd. was set up in 2011 to work on a variety of projects, commissions and collaborations. The studio comprises of Su (director) and her assistants, ‘Emma and Freya’.

Su is represented by Long and Ryle Gallery, London.

Su Blackwell


It's Snowing Star Wars Again! 19 New Star Wars DIY Snowflake Templates for 2013.




One of my most popular posts around this time of year has been my original 2010 how to make your own Star Wars snowflakes as taught by a husband and wife team.

http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com/2011/12/its-snowing-star-wars-10-new-diy-star.html

Designers Anthony Herrera and Chaunce Dolan of Matters of Grey then jumped on the paper Star Wars Snowflake bandwagon and provided us with more Star Wars Paper Snowflake templates in 2011.

Now, there are 19 new ones now requiring payment or a donation to download the set. The latest DIY Star Wars Snowflakes - several of which will require an exacto-knife and adept cutting skills -  include Princess Leia, Han Solo, lots of transportation and symbol snowflakes and updated versions of several of my previously posted Star Wars Snowflakes.

Here are the 19 newest Star Wars DIY Snowflakes.

Characters:
Princess Leia:

Han Solo:

New Darth Vader:

New Boba Fett:

New Chewie:

Clone Trooper:

Clone Trooper 2:

Stormtrooper:


Transport:
X-Wing Starfighter:

TIE Fighter:

New Millenium Falcon:

Airspeeder:

Slave 1:

ETA-2 Interceptor:

Star Destroyer:


Logos and Symbols:
Republic:

Rebel:

Imperial:


And, of course the Death Star:


Like I said earlier in this post, if you want to download a set of the 19 templates, it requires a donation or payment to paypal.
Download the 19 new ones here

To see the set of 10 that includes R2D2, C-3PO, Yoda, Ashoka, Admiral Ackbar, and more, go here

and for the original two snowflake templates of Boba Fett/Clone and Darth Vader, you can still download those free with instructions here.

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