Hand-Crafted Pop-Up Works by Bozka Rydlewska

Warsaw-based artist Bozena Rydlewska aka Bozka creates vivid 3D pop-ups that wow us by their beauty and detail. She started the series after finishing her work 'New Botany' that made her curious how her illus­tra­tions would look like in three-dimensional form. She was tired of working on the computer and eager to do something with her hands so she made some research and each work needs 3 to 4 weeks to get finished.

I have cut up a book in layers before in GCSE art and I could only achieve some easy shapes and patterns. I understand the difficulty of making a pop up book/decoration and I suddenly think that pop-up might be a good media to make an animation. Although there have been so many pop-up book like animation like the title sequence of Enchanted, it would be unique to film the actual work using stop motion or even pixilation for further development. 

If I am animating a pop-up book, I want to use so many colours as these art because would be fun to confuse their eyes with complexity hence let them to pay attention to every details. I like the layering of paper which is classical and vintage. It is very interesting to see how the artist twist the traditional pop-up book content and develop into her own unique style.

I especially like this one below because it is very dreamy and colourful. Pop-up books are recognised by their fantasy and fable style in major. Therefore in order to be different, I think trying different style and texture of the pop up might be a good method. For instance use acrylic board with a spacey, cyber theme.