My preferred contemporary paper creations on the web.   (The best with yellow background)

Video archive

	Richard Sweeney: ...  I used paper modeling as a means to generate form. I placed the emphasis on the creation of form through hands on material exploration, something paper lends itself to perfectly.  Discovering the properties of the medium in this direct way helped me better understand the potential of paper in its own right, leading to the creation of sculptural forms and various projects.    Personal site
	Nobutaka Mukouyama. Make your own paper models of motorcycles, rare animals and more. Nobutaka Mukouyama took charge of planning and production of all paper craft series published on the Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd. website, including "THE SEASONS," "Rare Animals of Japan," "Rare Animals of the World" and "Realistic Paper Craft".    Personal site.
	Beatrice Coron   PAPERCUTTING LINKS    A brief introduction to papercutting history... Take a piece of paper: a perfect support for an image. Cut or draw or paint or print or use all techniques to produce an image. Then fold the paper. You now have a book, or a sculpture, or an animation. Paper includes support, movement, interaction..
	Margie Florini. Florini's cut-paper collages are fun, have clear color, hard edges, and a contemporary graphic art appeal. Using beautiful Color-Aid matte-finish design papers, these original collages are the newest designs in a body of work spanning twenty years. Each one, a result of simple and strong design, is made by piecing papers side-by-side like a jig-saw puzzle, or by layering for a more 3-D effect.
	Wycinanki, pronounced (Vee-chee-non-key), are Polish decorative paper cut-outs which are regarded by many as the most beautiful in the world. The Wycinanki on display at the museum were made by hand in Poland with sheep-shearing scissors. They were used to decorate the walls of ceiling beams in countryside cottages and given as gifts to family members and friends.
	Susan Knight.  My cut paper work is significant because it makes visible the properties of water, water stories and water issues.   Using my knowledge of the geography and ecology of water systems and impacted by alarming stories about invasive, non-native aquatic species which damage lakes and rivers in the United States.
	Yanxi Liu and James Hays at the Carnegie Mellon University and Ying-Qing Xu and Heung-Yeung Shum at Microsoft Research Asia combine the analysis and synthesis of a papercut pattern into one automatic process, a general computational formalization, as well as the generation of a physically feasible folding plan.  This is a 49 pages FREE pdf study.
	Ku ShuLan  Once she felt down into a deep ravine and landed in narcose for a few days. After she woke up, she showed certain insanity, claiming to be the Goddess of Paper Cutting. She lived in the colorful paper world she created. From the walls to the ceiling in her cave-house (local architectural style in ShanXi), her paper imageries were everywhere.
	PaperCuts is the blog of cut-paper artist and illustrator Patrick Gannon.  I’ve grown to love the textures, colors, patterns and smell of it.  My illustration has been featured in magazines, newspapers, textbooks, advertisements, and a bunch of other stuff. It pops up in both the US and Japan.
	Jiaonan city's Paper-cut have been developed into a cottage industry. Its best representatives live in Yinzhu Town. On the basis of inheriting tradition, people there are creating with a simple but pure and fresh style, bold exaggeration, concise techniques and unique conception. Now there is a folk paper-cut army of nearly one hundred people in Yinzhu Town, with their age ranging from seven or eight all the way to over 80 years old.
	Henri Matisse. Yes the painter... Matisse created art differently than most artists of his time. He used paper and scissors to compose a remarkable masterpiece. Since 1940, Matisse has used this art form. He uses various sizes of shapes made from paper with a gouche' washes of color. Cutting the designs out, Matisse pastes them onto the art surface creating a beautiful and aesthetically pleasing work of art.  Another Matisse site.
	Yee is a Canadian Artist. His company Yee's Job is located in Montreal. He designs &  handcrafts all kind of paper craft. Following in the tradition of thousands years of Asian paper cutting. It is a new and creative way in which to express passions, imaginations, feelings, ideas and ideals.
	Su Blackwell. The work is fragile, precious. There is a desire to utilise non-art materials; she uses what is at hand. There is an obsessive, repetitive action at work, transforming the everyday into the fantastical. She transforms old books into three-dimensional theatres, and her reconstruction offers up to the viewer many questions.
	Chris Natrop. Maintaining structural integrity creates overall "fluidity" and the knife will always give way to "precision." Incidentally, if you look closely at the work you will see a lot of energetic rips, tears and over-cuts which is very integral to the process. Over time I have developed a very direct and spontaneous way to make the work. It's actually more like charcoal drawing than traditional paper cutting.
	Minomusi.  ISEKATAGAMI is an old paper hand craft of Japan(MIE prefecture).Its skill was developed in the time of the Tokugawa shogunate. (Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry select ISEKATAGAMI as JAPAN TRADITIONAL CRAFT in 1983 A.D.) The first use purpose is printing KIMONO PATTERN. It change interior decoration now.
	Zhou family. Chinese famous paper-cut artisans Zhou Yunhua, Zhou Bing and their family members have shown great talent in the field of paper-cutting. They participated in art exhibitions at home and abroad many times, followed by excellent reviews. All of their paper-cuts can be divided into three main series: black, red, and blue. With most of the artwork created by the entire Zhou family, it has been suitably named Zhou Paper-cutting.
	Hideo Iwasaki, a contemporary papercut artist. Papercut is distinguishable from other flat painting categories like drawing, printing, and woodcut and so on with some characteristics. For example, it can be seen even if you turn the paper over. So, in my opinion, this three-dimensional nature and the feeling of freedom must be taken into consideration for creating papercut.
	Wendy McNally.  The feathers will shimmer from a light breeze and from heavy laughter. A harmonious blend of teas and lightly spirited fruit juices may inspire visionary answers to a stream of revolutionary quandaries. If the meal ends and you are still without a mate, wait. Your mental state can flirt with fate, but love is in the weather and an unpretentious date. in "Touching The Cord"
	Makeup of Peking Opera. 25 x 26 cm, 20 pages, deluxe edition, 550g. 8 real  papercuts attached. The facial makeup of Peking Opera, as a way of facial dressing for different roles in the opera. varies greatly from role to role. The facial makeup is made though exaggerating or specially designing the facial expression of the actor or actress according to conceptualized understanding of the role in the opera.
	Thin line paper-cut, a distinctive genre of Chinese paper cut, originated from Yueqing, Zhejiang Province. According to local historical records, thin line paper-cut appeared and developed in the Southern Dynasty , thanks to the region's thriving economy and frequent exchanges with the outside world. Different from the plain and bold northern style, Yueqing thin line paper-cut features a delicate and exquisite syle and a rich south China charm.
	Rick Jones. The art of scherenschnitte. An article by Rick Jones. Scientific illustrator, painter, and master paper cutter Rick Jones of Redwood City, California.   Rick tucked his paper-cut snowflakes away in the “fond childhood memories” compartment. There they stayed until, years later, he enrolled in a course in Mexican folk art. Among the course topics was paper cutting. He picked up scissors and tried his hand.
	Marie-Helene L. Grabman. My artwork has been described as "traditional Swiss-German scherenschnitte (scissor cuttings) with elements of collage".  Each original, copyrighted paper cut design is hand cut with European scissors.     Ha ha ha... European scissors are manufactured in China nowadays... but since when does the art of the place of origin of a tool follow the tool and land in the hands of the one who uses the tool?   Jeez!
	Papel Picado  In Mexico, papel picado (perforated paper), refers to the traditional art of decorative cut paper banners. Usually cut with sharp fierritos (small chisels) from as many as fifty layers of colored tissue paper at a time. Designs may incorporate lattice-work, images of human and animal figures, flowers, and lettering. Many papel picado are made especially for the Mexican festival of the Days of the Dead and include skeletal figures...
	Hans Christian Andersen's Paper Cuts. About 1,000 paper-cuts of all sizes still exist to this day – primitive figures and simple tableaux as well as more ornamental, sophisticated cuttings. They belong to a world of their own, but they all have their roots in precisely the same rich, widely embracing creative imagination which in the nineteenth century revolutionized world literature...
	"Outlaws of the Marsh" is somewhat like the Iliad and Odyssey... An ancient epic tale... no one remembers the period it was composed and immortalized.  One knows this story is based on real facts and has inspired many storytellers.  108 characters of a novel, each of them minutiously described ... such is the challenge accepted by the Chinese craftsmen who created this incredible set or paper-cuts .
	Nanjing univ. about papercuts. A good compilation about all the forms taken by this craft in China: Douxiang Paper-Cutting, Ansai Paper-Cutting, East Sha'anxi Paper-Cutting, Fushan Paper-Cutting, Gaomi Paper-Cutting, Binzhou Paper-Cutting, Wei County Paper-Cutting, Nanjing Paper-Cutting, Pi County Paper-Cutting, Foshan Paper-Cutting, Taijiang Paper-Cutting, Beijing Shadow Play and the varieties of Leather Silhouettes...
	Archie Granot. His creative papercuts - ketubahs (ketubot), mizrachs, mezuzahs, blessings for the Jewish life cycle and more - both revive and continue a traditional Jewish art form while innovating against it. Distinguished by multiple layers of paper, Granot produces creative and beautiful papercuts - complex and impressive works, each cut with surgical scalpel, require a lengthy and intuitive process of creation...
	Shoto Kimura.  Being a student of the very traditional Noh theater -- which is strong in Kyoto --  many of his original themes are scenes from Noh and Kabuki plays. In Japanese, paper-cut art is usually called kirie, but Kimura-san calls his art senshi, from the Chinese.  He starts with locally hand made Japanese paper (washi), usually containing a colored wash.  After applying several layers, he uses small knives to patiently cut the intricate designs...
	Dena Levie has been creating Judaic papercuts for many years and has completed hundreds of pieces.  She enjoys working with clients to create personalized, one of a kind artwork. Each piece is intricately cut from one piece of paper. The artwork usually encompasses names in Hebrew and/or English as well as important symbols relevant to the client’s life. The backgrounds are hand painted in a color chosen by the client.
	Laura Cooperman received the Grainger Marburg travel grant for her cut paper work. Laura became engrossed in the delicate, methodical process of paper cutting and began experimenting with light, depth, and movement.  She is currently planning to travel to China in the fall to study the traditional art of Chinese paper cutting and to document and interpret the effects of urban renewal in Beijing through her cut paper overlays.
	Peter Callesen. Lately I have been working almost exclusively with white paper in different objects, paper cuts, installations and performances. Some of these objects and installations are copies of stairs and ladders made out of thin paper. These works derive from my earlier work, Bridge and Still life, dealing with dreams and the impossible - but here in a more fragile and almost sublime version.
	Cameron: Up until 20 years ago Chinese papercuts never received serious artistic attention, either from the Chinese themselves or from Western scholars. They belonged to the category of folk art, something that until very recently was taken for granted and regarded as hardly worthy of serious study. Fortunately, this attitude is now a thing of the past.
	Chitra Karma's papercut archive. Paper cutting traveled throughout Asia and Europe and eventually was brought to America by the Europeans.
	Chris Gilmour has imposed a strict logic on his works he makes objects using only cardboard and glue. His interpretations of everyday objects are created in adherence to the use of a pure and single material, but instead of the marble or bronze of classical statues, he has chosen one of the most humble and commonly found of our industrial times.
	Kathleen Trenchard's Cut-It-Out Studio Featuring Cut or Perforated Paper Banners, Bandarillas, Luminarias, Notecards and other fine custom designed papel picado products
	Eric Choisel Origami artist. If one isn’t an origami folder, it’s difficult to explain the process of conception through to the finished model. The creation process is similar to a scientific method. When designing a person, one begins with the assumption that the four corners of the paper will represent each hand and foot.
	Jen Stark  (My preferred modern cutter. Check her videos... simply fantastically beauitifull) • MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) / North Miami, FL • The West Collection / Oaks, PA • The Girls Club Collection / Ft Lauderdale, FL • Christine and Martin Taplin’s Sagamore Collection / Miami Beach, FL
	Kirti Khatri Indian artist Kirti Khatri is one of the very few people in India who practices the art of paper cutting. He works around religious themes as well as various floral designs.
	Eric Gjerde When asked by his parents what he wanted to be when he grew up, five-year-old Eric replied, “a paperologist.” Throughout his childhood and adolescence he enjoyed paper crafts and origami—a frequent birthday gift was stacks of paper and rolls of tape.
	Paper-Based Pie Chart Graphs A nice DIY experiment [knolleary.net] of how graphs can be represented with paper - not on paper, but with paper. Having a physical, paper-based embodiment of the raw data means one can touch it, feel it, grope it, which in the end might help the understanding.
	Ueli Hofer Ueli Hofer wurde 1952 in Lütiwil geboren, im Emmental, wo ihn die Natur  zu schöpferischer Tätigkeit anregte. Nach der Prüfung zum Bäcker-Konditorenmeister schlug Ueli Hofer schon bald einen künstlerischen Weg ein. Erste Kleinode geschnittenen Papiers entstanden und in kurzer Zeit zeugten erfolgreiche Ausstellungen im In- und Ausland vom grossen Können des Autodidakten.
	Virginia Rose Kane. Botanical and other papercuts. From a distance these delicate collages appear to be carefully pressed plants but when viewed up close they reveal a surprising 3rd dimension.
	Yulia Brodskaya I was born in Russia where I started out as a fine artist producing contemporary office decoration artwork for Moscow based companies while studying for my first degree in Graphic Design. In 2004 I moved to London, earned my M.A. in Graphic Communication and since then have been busy with parallel careers as an illustrator and a freelance graphic designer.
	AOYAMA HINA je fais decoupage avec des petits ciseaux. duree un mois au deux mois pour decoupe tableau de 1m sur 1m.