loving a papercut

For the past few months, I've been admiring the papercut artwork of Beatrice Coron.  Her primarily black silhouette art work depicts intricate stories of adventure, history, and community.  The result is graphic and complex, not to mention completely memorizing.  She beautifully discusses her work in a TEDtalk she gave a couple years ago, and inspires anyone to pick up art-making at any age.

Another papercut artist that has me digging in my studio for a box of X-acto blades is artist Rob Ryan.  I feel like I see his work everywhere now, from cards in stationary stores to plates in museum gift shops.  The combination of text with folk-like imagery, makes them comfortable and familiar while his productions on products are great for gift-giving.