Hope everybody had a wonderful Christmas! It was really nice to see family and friends. I also got lots of presents, and..... look what I got! I'm not showing you what's inside, but I'll say that I'm very happy to have this book. I really appreciate the honest and diligently executed mechanisms. It'll put smile on your face. Very inspiring in so many ways. You're the best, Jeff!

The Pop-up Book of Sex
Illustrations by Balris Rubess
Pop-ups by Kees Moerbeek
Produced by Melcher Media
2006

Have a happy holiday!

I found a couple of awesome awesome paper sculpture illustrated books at a Half Price Books years and years ago. The pictures just blew my mind, and told myself to look the artist up, but never did until a few months ago. I was very saddened by what I have found out about him. This year is the 10th year since he passed away. I felt shocked. Not only his works, but also the journey he took as an artist in 49 years of his life is truly inspiring and intriguing.

Here's a good reading about him, but basically, he was very into comic books early on, became a clown when he was an young adult, ran a shadow puppet theater after he got married, and then became a paper illustrator and an author. You can pretty much see all his life experiences reflected in his works: humor, terrific story telling, playfulness, drama, mastery in  compositions, color, animating the characters and cutting paper. I'd like to celebrate and share his exquisite paper art before this year ends. Click the images to see them bigger.

 

 

 

 

 

I'm back to my paper sculpture how-to book project. It's been roughly a year and a half since I started working on this project with the GMC publications(UK). I didn't imagine it would be taking this long, but it has. This project has been not just work, but quite an event in my life. This event taught me many things, and changed me as a person. Hopefully, I'm a little bit better person now.

Due to too much work load on my first editor, two new editors are assigned to this book, and I've been doing a lot of catching up with them. I like these fresh eyes, and the book is only getting better and better. There's not much I can share with you at the moment, but it's getting there.