All of us with great pleasure buy books for children with volumetric drawings inside. It is so nice to open a familiar fairy tale, where on each page, as soon as you open it, from the inside, as the magic grows figures. Animals, flowers, paper locks, decorated with magnificent coloring - everything is like a fairytale three-dimensional kingdom, and I want to look inside - isn't there someone else hiding there.
This is the art of Kirigami - the creation of three-dimensional carved drawings on the background of the picture or just cut out of the leaf figurines. Absolutely not knowing that you are a master Kirigami, you cut out snowflakes every year to decorate their windows, doors and walls for the new year. So you also know this amazing art and know how to create wonders out of paper.
The creation of Kirigami
Japanese architect Masahiro Chatani is considered to be the founder of this new direction in working with paper. Creating his architectural plans from paper, he took scissors in his hands and made cuts to make his designs not only voluminous, but also transparent. The result was amazing - lightweight paper architecture has become the basis for creating a completely new concept of working with paper.
This is a kind of continuation of origami - such a favorite art of folding paper figures. Ships, flowers, animal figures come out of the hands of masters of origami, and supplemented with cuts, such figures become light and incredibly beautiful. There is no need for glue and additional accessories, only paper and scissors in the hands of the master make the work easy, elegant and very elegant.
How to use the art of Kirigami
To decorate any interior with light intricate decorations made of paper of different colors, to create a gift wrapping unique in its refinement, to make an interesting three-dimensional postcard - all this you can do yourself. To feel the multi-layered paper, to turn a picture from 2 D to 3 D format and just a few cuts and bending of the sheet is quite easy.
As already mentioned, the first and simplest types of Kirigami are snowflakes. This is the so-called European approach to the technique of working with paper - cutting out the closed circle. If the cutting is made of colored paper and laid a contrasting background, it is the so-called Oriental style. And yet it is one thing - a flat style of carving Kirigami. It is the most common when creating postcards and paintings in the eastern style.
Style of Pop-up
You didn't know that those favorite books with three-dimensional pictures are called Pop-up carigas style, but you didn't know what kind of delight they bring to young children when familiar fairytale characters jump out of a flat drawing. These are three-dimensional paper constructions, so beautiful and bright, which disappear immediately after you turn the page of the book.
Learn how to fold colored paper and make incisions on it - create your first volumetric book - the technology of creating drawings is not complicated. You just need to learn to feel the different levels of paper sheet to understand how to raise the base of the picture with the help of bending and cutting paper. The first attempts to create such voluminous multi-level drawings will be surprising, you will want to create not only flat kirigs, but also magnificent pictures of multicolored paper.
Paintings as a gift
When you get your first work done, think about the fact that Kirigami is not yet a very common type of creativity. Why not become the founder of creating three-dimensional pictures of paper - a little fantasy, glue, colored paper and your amazing work will be a decoration of any fair of masters.
Volumetric drawings are always interesting, it is not without reason that holography is so popular, with the help of which old photographs are made voluminous. You can create amazing pictures with your own hands, start with a postcard, and then create a large canvas as a gift - cheap available materials and just work and inspiration are the basis for such work.
Kirigami in combination with the usual cutting of various figures gave birth to another direction - Pop-up. This technique can be found in the production of postcards or children's books. The point is that when you open a postcard or a book, you find a three-dimensional design inside. This design, when closed, turns from three-dimensional to flat.
The usual paper contains many surprises. And some of them can be discovered with the help of Kirigami art.