So, what exactly is paper cutting? It is a delicate process using a sheet of paper to carve and cut into a silhouette. After drawing an image, Pippa uses a scalpel to design an object, animal, or even a scene (a ship inside a bottle spewing ocean water) to create a stunning finished product. She admits her process can "take hours to complete."
Read MoreArtist Pippa Dyrlaga is truly a master of paper cutting. The gifted crafter produces intricately detailed creations with visually stimulating patterns. Much like her older paper art, each of Dyrlaga's recent works are crafted from a single sheet of paper, showcasing the artist's steady hand and unwavering skill.
Read MoreThe practice of paper-cutting is an art form that requires patience, finesse, and perhaps most importantly, a steady hand. Artist Pippa Dyrlaga demonstrates all of these skills and more as she elegantly transforms paper to give it the appearance of fine lace, depicting scenes inspired by the natural world.
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Yorkshire-based artist and printmaker Pippa Dyrlaga has a lovely portfolio of cut paper works. Each piece is cut from a single sheet of paper and is infused with a rich pattern of repetitive cuts that form the scaly details of twisting snakes to the patterned plumage of parrots or the fur of cats. Dyrlaga has degrees in Contemporary Art Practice and Art and Design and Curation from Leeds Metropolitan University and now works on a variety of freelance and commissioned projects. She also translates many of her pieces into limited edition screen prints which she sells in her shop.
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Obviously referencing a time when patience in creating art was a virtue and all that was needed was the artist and their medium, the intricate paper silhouettes of British artist, Pippa Dyrlaga, are both beautiful to behold as well as impressively detailed. But how exactly does she make all those minute cuts so perfectly so as to create an enchanting image with the sum of them? They unobtrusively hearken back to a time when patience in creating art was a virtue and all that was needed was the artist and their medium.
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Intricate Paper Cutouts of Animals Are Impossibly Detailed
Pippa Dyrlaga takes a knife to her drawings to create incredible paper silhouettes.
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A British artist has mastered the unusual art of paper cutting, transforming ordinary sheets of paper into breathtaking images of intricate swans, flowers and even the Millennium Falcon.
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One British artist, in particular, has recently caught our eye with her stunning paper art pieces. Pippa Dyrlaga from Yorkshire, Northern England, started crafting gorgeous swans, castles and other designs from plain pieces of paper in 2010
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