All About Paper Cutting

Little Red Riding Hood. A Paper Ring Framed in a Shadow Box.

Framed Bee Medal.

New Version.

Here is a new version of this piece. The stage is the same but the characters on it are totally different. Sometimes you need to do things over and over until it works. I'm waiting for my editor's opinion to see what's the next step.

Josh Ritter - Love Is Making Its Way Back Home

 

Thanks a lot to Janet Mohler for letting me know about this beautiful stop-motion animation music video.

This video was created with over 12,000 pieces of construction paper, shown as it was shot, with no effects added in post.

Director : Erez Horovitz
Concept : Sam Cohen + Erez Horovitz
Illustrator : Sarah Graves
Text Illustrator : Savannah Wolf
Lead Production : Marlie Pesek + Eric Giordano
Photo Editor : Felipe Sanchez
Technical Director : Ali Mohammed
Grip : James Wells
Production Assistants : Paige Ellis, Jacqueline Geisheimer, Angelina Zhou, Jesse Ashcraft-Johnson, Jovin Cronin, Faizan Ahmed, Ricardo Gonzalez

Before and After.

Before.

After.

This is one of my numerous projects this year. There will be 4 pieces in total. In the "after" version you can see how I decided to play a little bit by adding some painted elements to the paper. The original idea was to paint the face of the bird/girl only. But then she "asked" me to please paint some more around her so I did it. Notice how she decided to slightly smile in the second version. It was her way to say: Thanks :) 

 

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Les Trois Inventeurs (1980) by Michel Ocelot.

Chrysalis.

 

This piece was specially created for my good friend Debra who passed away last year. I wanted to represent the process in which the soul separates from the body when someone is dying. My friend loved it and found lots of peace in this image. I told her that her soul was always going to be alive in my heart and in the hearts of so many people who loved her. There isn't a day when I don't think about my friend. I believe that there is life beyond the body. Debra is so alive to me.

Book Giveaway.

 

Don't miss this giveaway!

If you want to participate just go HERE.

This book features the work of 30 artists from all over the world exploring the boundaries or paper art.

There are tons of color pictures in it plus interviews with each one of the artists.

I'm extremely honored to be one of the artists.

I hope you win the book! You will love it.

Good luck!

Elsita :)

 

Visionary.

 A new piece titled Visionary.

The girl had a vision, a dream about exploration and about going away. So she cut herself some paper wings. Her wings took her to the most unexpected and mysterious places. The journey was beautiful and painful at the same time. At some point the girl wanted to go back home, but she realized that her real home was her own mind, so she kept dreaming and flying until the end of her life.

Available here.

 

Botánica

This was the last piece that I finished for the show at Giant Robot 2. I am really loving this new organic-looking shapes. I can't wait to keep going in this direction to see where it takes me.