Artist Completes His Paper Cutouts Using Nature

Can you see nature through animals? You can with Nikolai Tolstyh’s silhouettes. This artist cuts animal outlines out of a sheet of paper. He then photographs a bit of nature through the gap. You can not only see the clever combos of animal shape and color, but also an interesting visual composition. When photographed through a hedgehog outline, a tree stump with a leaf becomes a bunch of quills with an impaled apple.

Nikolai Tolstyh is a journalist, bibliophile, art lover and a natural craftsman. His art reminds of two projects we posted before. You can check out animal and nature double exposure portraits here and here . An another artist has photographed city outlines through cut-outs of dress illustrations, and you can see it here .

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