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Amazing Paper Cut: World in a Toilet Paper Roll

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Anastassia Elias, from Paris France, is a full-time artist and illustrator and her preferred medium is paper collages and paintings. With a quirky canvas and steady hand, she created these fantastic scenes inside empty toilet paper rolls. With the right lighting these scenes burst to life; silhouettes in a land of cardboard.

We list 9 our favorite work of Anastassia, you can find more fantastic work from this wonderful artist via clicking here.

Amazing Paper Cut: World in a Toilet Paper Roll

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Amazing 3D Paper Sculpture by Jeff Nishinaka

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Jeff Nishinaka is the world’s premier paper sculptor with a prolific career that spans 28 years. Using nothing more than white paper, glue and a sharp knife, he creates unbelievably intricate sculptures of everything from landmarks to wildlife. I put some my favorite work of him in this post. Look at these 3D-ish Sculptures. It is hard to believe they are actually 2D work with 3D effect achieved by layering and lighting.

Amazing 3D Paper Sculpture by Jeff Nishinaka

Amazing 3D Paper Sculpture by Jeff Nishinaka

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Incredible Miniscule Pencil Tip Carvings by Dalton Ghetti

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Many artists have used pencils to create beautiful pieces of work – but only one creates stunning masterpieces on the tip of one. Microscopic artist Dalton Ghetti spends up to two-and-a half years painstakingly crafting each handmade piece on the graphite of a pencil.

Incredible Miniscule Pencil Tip Carvings by Dalton Ghetti

Incredible Miniscule Pencil Tip Carvings by Dalton Ghetti

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Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes

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Incredibly realistic scenes from rural life have been painstakingly recreated by a British artist in her own living room – using just a needle and thread.

This patient artist is Jill Draper, 62. She creates embroidered tapestries, recreating scenes with astonishing accuracy from photographs. Each picture measuring around 15 by 30 inches contains hundreds of thousands of stitches done by hand and machine.

Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes
She picks from her thousands of colours of household cotton or Terylene and applies them with a sewing machine or darning hoop. She hand-sews special detail with pure silk. She sews for around six hours every day and relies on natural light to distinguish between the hundreds of similar shades.

Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes
A photograph [left] taken in Autumn 2009 of a heather path, and Jill Draper’s hyper-real tapestry of the scene.

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