Paintings from a sheet of paper
Artist Bovey Lee (Bovey Lee) continues the tradition of Chinese art "of Czarci" — cut patterns out of paper.
Bovey Lee was born in Hong Kong, and now lives and works in USA. Since childhood, fond of Chinese calligraphy, painting and drawing. Learning the skills of artist, digital art, received two masters degrees. And now devotes all his time to laborious and time-consuming work cut complex patterns or entire paintings from white rice paper. As a model, the artist uses photographs, pictures from the Internet, illustration of books and magazines. She puts the scanned pattern to the sheet of rice paper and carefully and painstakingly carves an image using a special knife with eleven blades.
Creativity Bovey Lee has a strong cultural value, as it restores and maintains a traditional Chinese craft, the technique of which in China is gradually disappearing.
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