Thomas allen

Artist and Illustrator Thomas Allen creates stories within stories. What we mean by this is, he gets books that contain a tile and a story within and adds figures, cut-outs, that compliment and add to the original story. The other cool aspect is his use of vintage books and vintage figures that really add to the overall picture. Very imaginative work with excellent positioning of the figures, makes his work a pleasure to look at, we hope you enjoy it as much as we have. Backstop. Press the…

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Paper cut illustrations, works of Michigan-based book artist Thomas Allen

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Artist Thomas Allen makes his artwork using inspiration from book covers.

Book artist Thomas Allen (previously) just published a dozen new works in advance of his forthcoming show, Beautiful Evidence, at Foley Gallery in New York opening September 9th, 2012. Allen pours through old encyclopedias, primary readers and science books to extract figures for these perfectly composed illustrations. See the rest over on his blog. More

Society is in a digital age and paper books are being left behind. Artists are fighting the tide by bringing books into their own as gorgeous works of art.

Official site artist and photo illustrator Thomas Allen

Thomas Allen recently debuted a new series of recycled book art illustrations that will fill you with wonder.

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