Nathalie Boutté's Amazing Paper Strips Textured Images




Canis Major by Nathalie Boutté 
Canis Major by Nathalie Boutté
Gaia by Nathalie Boutté
Gaia by Nathalie Boutté
To create these stunning images, the French artist cuts long strips of paper and then pastes them together to give the images a feather-like texture. The effect is used for all images with the texture of various papers like Nepalese Paper, Tracing Paper and Color paper and the artist uses bright shades along with grays to create the shading effect.
Memories by Nathalie Boutté
Memories by Nathalie Boutté
To fashion a more diverse color palette, the artist uses gold sheets and Indian ink. Some of Nathalie Boutté's more interesting works include pictures like the 'Gaia' that is created using layered maps and depicts the map of the world.
Jeune Homme à la Fleur by Nathalie Boutté
Jeune Homme à la Fleur by Nathalie Boutté
Color layer and heavy paper was used to create the image called 'Ingénue' and simple color paper was used to create the 'Enfant de Papier'. The image named 'Jeune Homme à la Fleur' comprises of the picture of a photograph taken in 1959 by Seydou Keita in which old books were used to form an image effectively making it a picture of a picture.
    
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Enfant de Papier by Nathalie Boutté
Enfant de Papier by Nathalie Boutté
The picture named 'Memories' was made using pages of a music encyclopedia and thick paper. The 'Canis Major' was made using Chinese ink, tracing paper and Nepalese paper.
Ingénue by Nathalie Boutté
Ingénue by Nathalie Boutté