Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
Developing Your Paper Playground
A course by Karishma Chugani , Artist, Illustrator, and Educator
Joined August 2011
About the video: Developing Your Paper Playground
Overview
“In this lesson I will share some of my favorite reference books and invite you to awaken your curiosity and keep looking, learning and making!”
In this video lesson Karishma Chugani addresses the topic: Developing Your Paper Playground, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook. Create a paper universe full of possibilities using visual ideas from your sketchbook and paper cutting techniques to bring them to life.
Partial transcription of the video
“Developing Your Paper Playground In my own personal path as a paper cutter, I often turn to my favourite reference books to keep an open mind about all the possibilities of paper cutting and working with paper to fold, cut and create new formats constantly. The first of these books is by Jean-Charles Trebbi, and is called "L'art de la découpe", or "The Art of Paper Cutting". It's a wonderful catalogue full of resources, references and artists such as Béatrice Coron, which is one of my personal favourites, showing all the different possibilities of paper cutting and the things you can achiev...”
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Course summary for: Paper Playground: Create a Papercut Picturebook
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Category
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, DIY, Narrative, Paper Craft, Storytelling, Traditional illustration

Karishma Chugani
A course by Karishma Chugani
Karishma Chugani is an artist, designer, writer, and illustrator from Morocco. She has a degree in Fashion Design with Printing from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and a Masters in Fine Arts from Goldsmiths University in Design Futures.
Karishma has worked as a fashion designer, published several books, and participated in collective and solo exhibitions internationally. She also teaches creative workshops to children, teachers, and illustrators at her mobile school L’École de Papier, as well as institutions like Institut Français Madrid & Casablanca, Casablanca American School, Colegio Santa Isabel Madrid, and Libreria Gil in Santander. Her clients include Jerraflore, Le Chocolat des Francais, Marketing Magazine France, Jamini Paris, and the toy shop Wonderland.
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