Incredible Real-Looking Birds And Butterflies By Lisa Lloyd

Lisa Lloyd’s bird and butterfly paper sculptures are so spectacular and life-like that they can easily compete with the real-life ones. Such is her fascination with this form of sculpting that she doesn’t mind the backbreaking job of gluing together thousands of small pieces of paper.

The first step in Lloyd’s sculpting is to make the internal structure of the bird with cardboard and tissue paper. She then painstakingly places bits of paper feathers by means of a tweezer and glues them to the ‘body’ according to the color scheme of that particular species. These paper pieces may number over 4,000, depending upon the size of the winged creature. She makes the feet with wires wrapped in tissue paper.