Noticed lately: delicate handmade paper flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. Here’s a look:
Berkeley-based artist Momoca Usagi offers a selection of Paper Plants, including paper lemons, daikon, radishes, and pomegranates.
Photograph via Momoca Usagi
Bay Area-based artist Tiffanie Turner trained as an architect before turning to botanical sculpture; we especially like her The Ends Series, depicting past-their-prime florals.
Photograph via Tiffanie Turner
Artist Livia Cetti of the Green Vase makes an array of paper flowers, from single stems to larger potted paper plants.
Photograph via Livia Cetti
Ann Wood of Minneapolis-based Woodlucker is directly inspired by historical botanical prints in her work.
Brooklyn-based Corrie Beth Hogg offers tutorials on making your own paper plants on her blog The Apple of My DIY.
Photograph via Corrie Beth Hogg
Japanese artist and florist Megumi Shinozaki of Edenworks creates her paper flowers using Naoron paper construction, which means the flowers are waterproof and tear resistant.
Photograph via Edenworks