My preferred form of art, besides comics about insects, is paper cutting. I use card paper that I buy in the scrap-booking section of Michael’s and an exacto knife with replaceable blades (the blades are much cheaper online). Normally I sketch out the images before I cut them. When I am done with a piece, I turn all the pages over so that any pencil marks that are left are not visible and the cuts look cleaner.
Slide show of sea creatures in various situations:
Nudibranch (Mollusca, Gastropodia, Nudibranchia) 
Jellyfish (Cnidaria, Medusozoa) 
Koi with yellow scales (Chordata, Cyrpinidae) 
Koi with blue and red scales (Chordata, Cyrpinidae) 
Yellow octopus (Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Octopoda) 
Flying whale with a city on top in front of a yellow sky (Chordata, Mammalia, Cetacea) 
Squid loves whale (Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Decapodiformes and Chordata, Mammalia, Cetacea) 
Red squid (Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Decapodiformes) 
Octopus with sandcastle and fish (Mollusca, Cephalopoda, Octopoda) 
Flying whale with a city on top, in front of a dark blue sky (Chordata, Mammalia, Cetacea)
My designs are both single layer (only one layer is cut, although there is always another layer of background) and multi-layer. The advantage of the single layer pieces is that the background layer can be swapped out, making the pieces really mutable. When I am making a multilayered piece, I usually make the top layer first and then work down from there. I don’t glue the pieces together, so everything has to be cut so it is attached to the border of the layer, which can become a challenge.
Slideshow of flying animals, mostly birds:
Great blue heron (Ardea herodias) 
Sandhill crane with ripples (Grus canadensis) 
Red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) 
Dragonfly win incorrect wing veination (Arthropoda, Insecta, Odonata, Zygentoma) 
Green sparrow (Passeridae) 
Dragonfly with slightly better wing veination (Arthropoda, Insecta, Odonata, Zygentoma) 
Orange sparrow (Passeridae) 
Yellow dragon (Chordata, Reptilia, Draconia) 
Dragonfly with completely inaccurate wing veination, eyes, and legs (Arthropoda, Insecta, Odonata, Zygentoma) 
Hawk, midflight (Chordata, Aves, Accipitridae) 
Bird where the tail is weird because I ran out of space (Passeridae) 
Small sparrow (Passeridae 
Birds on a tree branch (Chordata, Aves)
One of the things I love about working with the paper is the focus it takes to cut the more intricate patterns, and how everything I work with has to be abstracted to some degree. I like to think about how to reduce a thing so it’s reasonably possible to cut, but still resembles the object I am trying to portray. I also like doing more abstract pieces, especially the geometric ones.
Slideshow of abstract pieces:
Flower with yellow lines 
Orange lines 
Circles with inside waves two 
Circles with inside waves, one 
Yellow and blue sigil 
Purple and blue lines 
Star, fading from yellow to red 
Circles with outside waves 
Curving lines 
Leaves and flowers 
Yellow and cream star 
Heart 
Inside of a star there are geometric shapes 
Flower with yellow petioles 
Purple flower 
Pink geometric layers
I draw my much of my inspiration from Japanese woodprints, Chinese brush painting and Persian mosaics.
Various plants and landscapes, with a spider:
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