Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper

Structures with wire

A course by Diana Beltran Herrera , Industrial Designer

99% positive reviews (339)

7,900 students

Audio: Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese

· · · · · · ·

About the video: Structures with wire

Overview

“In this lesson I will explain to you how to handle the wire and cover it with tape to make different pieces. ”

In this video lesson Diana Beltran Herrera addresses the topic: Structures with wire, which is part of the Domestika online course: Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper. Explore the possibilities of paper by transforming designs into volumetric shapes.

Partial transcription of the video

“[Music] Well, In this lesson I am going to explain to you how are we going to use the wire and tape to make different structures with wire? Typically the ribbon is a florist's ribbon. You can get it on Amazon or eBay. It's called florist's tape. It comes in different colors. You can get it in different shades green, white, red. Anyway, depending on what you want to do. To make the bird's legs I normally use white because I'm going to paint them on white whether in black, yellow, gray or in pink which are the colors that more or less always They are in the legs of our bird. We are going to u...”

This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.

Course summary for: Advanced Papercraft Techniques: Designing with Paper

Level: Intermediate
99% positive reviews (339)
7900 students
5 units
19 lessons (3h 29m)
11 downloads

Category
Craft
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Design, Paper Craft, Sculpture, Traditional illustration

Diana Beltran Herrera

A course by Diana Beltran Herrera

Teacher Plus

Industrial Designer

After graduating as an industrial designer from the Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Diana decided to explore design from a more experimental perspective, studying the different qualities of cheap and ordinary materials such as paper and cardboard and developing simple ways to transform them and give them a new value and use.

Nature and animals are very present in Diana Beltrán's work, which she explores endlessly through papercraft.

Her work has been exhibited in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States, where she has participated in group and solo shows. She has also worked for international clients in editorial design, advertising, window dressing, events, and interior design projects, working for 215 McCann, Olivari Olive Oil, Volevatch, Longwood Gardens US, ENI, Marina Rinaldi, Lebeau-Courally, James Cropper UK, Hodder and Stoughton UK, Horse Mag, On investing magazine, the Libertine Lindenberg Hotel, Restaurant Auberge de l'Ill, Mercedes Salazar, and UH Hospitals USA.