Kate Alarcón works with a variety of fine European crepe papers to create lifelike blossoms, leaves and stems that showcases layers, colors, and rippled textures.

She deconstructs the live specimens, separating their petals, leaves, stems, stamens, and pistils, then traces them to get a better understanding of their structures and their relationships with each other.

For each creation, she works out a flower ‘sketch’ with her scissors.

The artist gets the shapes and sizes right, then she bends the edges of petals and leaves to create a sense of thickness. She adds color with paints and dyes, and takes color away with bleach.

Alarcón uses a variety of paper weights, to better match the texture of each floral element. She also uses cardstock and tissue paper to reproduce some species.

Each type of flower presents a completely different paper crafting experience.

More of Kate Alarcón’s amazing paper creations can be found at https://www.instagram.com/cobralilyshop/?hl=en and https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/07/paper-flower-concepts-by-kate-alarcon/.

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