Paper Cut Arts 3

Paper Art by Bovey Lee

Bovey’s paper cutout drawings seek to preserve, promote, and extend an ancient Chinese folk art through invention by adding personal and contemporary elements.

http://www.boveylee.com/

Artist Statement(by his blog)

The underlying themes in my cut paper works are power, sacrifice, and survival. Within the parameters of these three themes, I create layered and dramatic narratives referencing my life experiences, reactions to headline news, and concerns for urban and environmental issues. I hand cut each work on a single sheet of Chinese rice paper. In my recent installations, I have also cut using Tyvek and vinyl.



I define what I do as drawing with a knife. My life long love affair with art begins with practicing Chinese calligraphy and pencil drawing since age ten. When I cut paper, it is a visceral reaction and natural response to my affection for precision, detail, and subtlety. The physical and mental demand from cutting paper is extreme and thrilling. Working in silence, my works slow me down and allow me to think clearly and decisively.



I work with Chinese rice paper on silk because both materials are culturally significant and sustainable. Made from mulberry tree bark, rice paper is tissue thin, dense, and soft to the touch. Silk is light but very strong and is also natural and renewable.



My creative process is three-fold – drawing, digital rendering, and hand cutting. I form ideas by sketching before creating a digital template. The template is a visual guide that consists of downloaded images, my own photographs, scans from magazines and books, and vector graphics. The final step is for me to hand cut the image with an X-Acto knife.



Employing the natural, off-white color of the rice paper, light play and shadow are essential to the overall impact of an image. Shadow gives life and dimension to the cut paper works. It offers a sense of reality contradicting the fictional scenarios within each image.



Each impossibly thin strip of paper that I cut connects to form a larger picture, the deep paradoxes in my works contrast starkly with the airy, fragile laces of the cutouts. As a creative medium, cut paper best combines my skills, creativity, and personality, and frees me to create these dramatic stories.

Paper Cut Arts 2

Paper Art by Kako Ueda

Her hand cut paper pieces deal with the notion of nature/culture - how organic beings (insects, animals, human bodies) are made from nature but constantly influenced and affected by culture.

http://www.kakoueda.com/

Kako Ueda creates incredibly intricate and beautiful artworks from cut paper. She is interested in organic beings-- insects, animals, and human bodies. Her work reveals how these natural beings are constantly influenced and modified by culture.

Creative arts (Paper Cut Arts1)

Creative arts is the term used to describe different types of art. Specifically, to introduce fine art ideas, techniques, skills and media. It is generally used as an umbrella for Dramaturgy, Music (Music theory, Music history, Musicology), Graphic Arts/Cartooning, Performing Arts, Film and Publishing, Galleries and Museums and the Visual arts. Some Universities offer a degree of Bachelor of Creative Arts.

Paper Art by Aoyama Hina
Beautiful paper art by Aoyama Hina, Japanese artist living in France.
http://www.hinaaoyama.com/

Carrie Chau's works

Pictures from

http://www.fieldnotesblog.com.au/2009/07/field-notes-icons-carrie-chau.html

Hong Kong Illustrator Carrie Chau

You’ve no doubt seen local illustrator Carrie Chau’s big-headed melancholic characters around town on umbrellas, alarm clocks, postcards, handbags, and well, practically everywhere.

I just want to eat, sleep and draw.

Like many people born in the 70s and 80s, my childhood was so dull that the only excitement I had was in violating minor school rules, like wearing hairspray or reading tabloids in school.

Later on, I went to the UK to complete my studies. My real education was in skipping school and learning that it is really important to get out of Hong Kong.

A teacher told me to forget about university since I wasn’t a good student. I mailed my portfolio to the Polytechnic University and got in anyway. Teachers, what do they know?

When I graduated, the word “illustrator” was as vague as the word “artist.” No one knew exactly what it meant.

Sometimes, I wonder how kids in other families are raised. I’m talking about the kids who cope so well with social expectations – getting a job in a bank after graduation, getting married in their late 20s and getting a mortgage in their 30s.

I was staying home, mailing out portfolios. That was a lot of work, albeit wasted. Running out of money, I got a job as a “merchandizing assistant” – a good experience because I learned I was not suitable for any job out there.

Throughout my life I have been a flying blind, stumbling into one opportunity after another. If I could do it again, I would have set some goals.

Life is about doing what you don’t like so that you can do what you like later on.

Growing up is about being true to your nature. Only immature people pretend they are someone they're not and think it's cool.

When there is a crisis, there is an opportunity. And then there is another crisis.

During Sars, the rent went down so much that my friends decided to start the lifestyle store, “Homeless” and I created my series of products there. But then the rent went back up – business, an endless cycle of problem-solving.

I am not very motivated to make it big. There are some people who keep asking me to venture overseas but I turn them down. Being famous is too complicated.

There are no upper hands or lower hands in relationships, I believe, like many other upper hands do.

It is an illusion that the younger generation seems to be worse than the previous one. When you start thinking that, it just means you are getting old.

Some people despise commercialized art but I am cool with money. I like seeing my work printed on umbrellas, handbags and postcards – the more, the better.

Being yourself is a big enough problem in our society.

People don’t care whether your smile is genuine or not. They just want a big fat smile constantly worn on everyone’s face.

My wish – to be happy and keep everything as simple as possible.

(By Jan Leung | published Oct 04, 2007 http://hk.asia-city.com/events/article/carrie-chau)

The creation in our life

sofa

Zebra crossing

The Goblet

what is creativity？

Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new that has some kind of value.What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways.（From Wikipedia）

in my opinion, The word `creativity` has variety of meanings.Everything in life has its creativity, people cannot leave the creative(a product, a solution, a work of art etc.)I hope that in this semester could be developed to my best creative.^_^~