A one-day-old zebra kisses her mom good morning.
Vaishali Chudasama admires the miniature paper owl she and her partner, Nayan Shrimali, created.

Regular-sized art only takes one person to make. Miniature art takes two.

To make their tiny, layered-paper wildlife sculptures, Nayan Shrimali cuts the paper that Vaishali Chudasama hand-paints with watercolors. The Ahmedabad, India-based duo, 33, met in 2014 at a visual-effects company, where they worked as mini-model-makers. In 2016, after two years at the company, they quit to pursue art together.