The unusual work of Nasa Funahara, a Japanese artist, derived from her unusual hobby. A few years ago she started collecting... washi tape bobbins. When her collection grew to 450 items of all possible shapes and colors, it became clear that their use in art was just a matter of time.

One day, Nasa decided to use tape to make a school project. The process of creating and the result inspired her a lot, so since then she prefers "strokes" of tape to ususal oil paints, in spite of the fact that Nasa graduated from Musashino University of Arts, faculty of Oil Painting.

She became famous because of art reproductions of well-known paintings: Nasa recreates world masterpieces from "A Girl with a Pearl Earring" to "Last Supper". As a rule, her works are noticed because of size — each the size of a judo mat, tatami, (traditional Japanese Mat — 90×180 cm). It takes her about a week of hard work to create such a picture.

"A Girl with a Pearl Earring", Jan Vermeer

"Last supper", Leonardo da Vinci

"Mona Lisa", Leonardo da Vinci

"Portrait Of Mada Primavesi", Gustav Klimt

"Marie Antoinette, Queen of France", Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun

"Fine Wind, Clear Morning", Katsushika Hokusai

"Sunflowers", Vincent Van Gogh

"The Scream", Edvard Munch

The work of Utagawa Kuniyoshi, a Japanese artist

"Tiger", Ito Jakuchu

"The Great Wave off Kanagawa", Katsushika Hokusai

The second interpretation of "A Girl with a Pearl Earring"

One of relatively small works by Nasa — the reproduction of "Golden Pheasant" painting by Ito Jakuchu. In the video, Nasa shows how she usually works on her collages:

Here is the result: