Artists who use non traditional materials

Peter Callesen - Paper cutting

Peter Callesen creates beautiful but fragile creations made from paper that is a magical transformation of a flat sheet of paper into figures. Callesen only uses A4 paper as he believes that as the most commonly used type of paper we are able to see it in a new light and not just as a blank sheet.

This piece I find quite interesting as the leaves falling off the tree look as though they are flying in the breeze to fall randomly on the ground. I think this is accurately portrayed in this image and the cut outs go well with the background paper of brown, this is an autumn colour that relates to the leaves falling. Although the white space around the image is not used, it adds to the simplicity of the piece but in an effective way.

Here are some more examples of his work that I find fascinating. The images with the skeletons of people and angels I find to be very well constructed. They are part of a category called "Fall" which most of his pictures symbolise falling in a different way. However, the bottom piece of the flowers has a great thought process and idea behind it, but you can barely see the cut out shapes at the top. Therefore, I think that he should have created a coloured background to make them stand out more.


Yulia Brodskaya- Quilling artist

 

 

Yulia Brodskaya has a different way of working as she creates pieces in the form of quilling. Having made pieces out of quilling myself I know that it is a hard and time consuming task, but looks amazing in the end. She describes quilling as giving paper craft technique a new life and significance in the context of graphic communication.

I like the intricate details of the pieces above. The one of the woman smoking a pipe in particular as there are so many colours included in the face, that it looks like a whole new picture is contained within. I also like the fact that she has included smaller swirls within the bigger ones as this makes it look more interesting. It looks as though someone has edited it on a computer, which is probably where her skills as a graphic designer come in, as she wanted to experiment these with paper.