Creating book sculptures is not very unique, but how you create them is what makes them unique and inspiring. We've featured quite a few book sculptures in the past, like Su Backwell who tells fairy tales through her sculptures, Long-Bin Chen, who creates sculptures from phone directories, Jeremy May, who creates jewelry from old books and many more. Today we bring you Mike Stilkey, who creates installations and sculptures by stacking them and paints interesting characters in them.

"Los Angeles native Mike Stilkey has always been attracted to painting and drawing not only vintage paper, record covers and book pages, but on the books themselves. Using a mix of ink, colored pencil, paint and lacquer, Stilkey depicts a melancholic and at times a whimsical cast of characters inhabiting ambiguous spaces and narratives of fantasy and fairy tales." describes his website.

Here are some examples of his work:





















































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