The art of cutting leaves.

I recently stumbled on this amazing leaf art. Couldn't really find specific artists, but I did come across one with very little information on his background and where he learned to do this. Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf's surface to produce an art work the leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully remove the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving. The material or most common leaf used in leaf carving is the leaf of a Chinar tree. The Chinar tree is native to India, Pakistan and China. Chinar leaves have a close resemblance to maple leaves.

Victor Liu was born in Hebei, China in 1983 and resides in Tianjin, China. He is currently still making leaf art and already has his foot in the door of the pop-culture world.

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