Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
What is Paper Mache?
A course by Sarah Hand , Artist, Author, and Teacher
About the video: What is Paper Mache?
Overview
“First, I will describe what paper mache is, and what style of paper mache we will be using in the class. I’ll show some examples of the different stages of a paper mache project from armature to finished product. ”
In this video lesson Sarah Hand addresses the topic: What is Paper Mache?, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character. Illustrate friendly characters full of hopes and dreams using simple paper mache techniques.
Partial transcription of the video
“What is Paper Mache? In this lesson, I'm gonna tell you all about papier-mâché. PAPER MACHE Papier-mâché is torn strips of paper dipped in a gooey glue that you usually make yourself and spread over an armature, which is just an underlying structure that you make. It's like the skeleton and the muscles, and the papier-mâché is the skin on top, and then it hardens, and then when you're done, you paint it. So, it's really a three-step process of building your structure, putting the papier-mâché on top of it and then painting it. It's really fun, it's a great thing to do in steps, so if you do...”
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Course summary for: Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
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Areas
Art Toys, Character Design, Creating with Kids, Toy Design, Traditional illustration
Sarah Hand
A course by Sarah Hand
Sarah Hand is a Virginia-based artist, author, teacher, and paper mache enthusiast. As a self-taught, lifelong maker of things, she has always been creative, but it was a puppet show which first sparked her interest in paper mache. The experience kick-started her career as an artist and has since taught children and adults alike how to express themselves through paper mache.
Sarah currently hosts paper mache workshops at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond and the Virginia Museum, of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited at several galleries, and she recently published a book with publishing group Quarto Creates in which she shares her step-by-step guide to using paper mache to create sculptures with personality.
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