Large paper flower sculptures by Michele Tremblay
Michele Tremblay is an artist with many years of experience in flower art design. She skillfully combines flower design and paper art to design and produce amazing large-scale paper flower sculptures. . Paper sculpture is no stranger to many people who like paper art, because many exquisite paper art works are completed through paper sculpture. Paper has strong plasticity and is very easy to shape and modify, so the production of paper sculptures is often preferred by some artists who are good at making large-scale paper art works. Michele Tremblay is such an artist. In her opinion, only paper sculptures can present the beautiful flowers in her mind.
Looking carefully at Michele Tremblay’s large paper flower sculptures, we will find that there are other paper arts in Michele Tremblay’s works. For example, in the paper flower sculpture above this paragraph, we can clearly see that the stamen part in the middle is completed by paper quilling. Paper quilling has always been considered one of the best ways and techniques to make paper flowers. Paper flowers made through quilling paper can be large or small and can be combined at will. The light and shadow effects brought by quilling paper make the outline of the flower beautiful. It is displayed without reservation, so many paper quilling masters have personally tried to make paper quilling flowers. Michele Tremblay uses paper diffraction technology to bring different visual effects to his large paper flower sculptures.
However, most of the time it is mainly revealed by the white paper itself after being folded.Light and dark effects. It can be seen that her works use white paper in large areas. After the white paper is folded, it often produces an enchanting sense of light and dark on both sides of the fold. This sense of light and dark makes the entire paper art work full of simple and elegant texture, so that through layered combinations or It is the scattered matching of space, and the whole work immediately becomes a visual feast. And because of the changes in space, a large number of details in the work can be observed, which further enriches the connotation of the work.
Michele Tremblay does not reject the application of color. On the contrary, she believes that color can bring more possibilities to her works. If only white paper shuttles through the work, it will feel like an origami rose without leaves, which is as pleasing but monotonous. So in Michele Tremblays large paper flower sculptures, we can See there are some clever uses of simple colors. For example, she will use color as a way to create spatial effects, so that the flowers do not look so single. Even when viewed from a distance, a fragrant feeling gushes out from them, making people feel relaxed and happy at the same time. Get lost in these paper flower sculptures.
Actually, from the perspective of production methods, these paper flower sculptures are not new. Many paper flowers, including some paper roses, are made using this layering and pasting method, but it needs to be noted. What is noticeable is that the effect displayed by the petals of his paper flower sculptures is not straightforward, but has a certain vitality and language. That is to say, Michele Tremblay skillfully integrates the texture of nature into his works. Although this texture is regular, it gives people a visual enjoyment of beauty invisibly. This is also the reason why paper roses made from crumpled paper look more alive (see tutorial: Quickly make a simple origami rose tutorial).
