Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature 2
A course by Sarah Hand , Artist, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature 2
Overview
“Now, I’ll show you how to make a stacked glued layer of character shapes to make an armature with depth. You will seal the edges with masking tape. And finally, you’ll add a wire loop on the back so you can hang it on the wall when it’s complete. ”
In this video lesson Sarah Hand addresses the topic: Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature 2, 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
“Next thing we're gonna do is trace your cutout character onto another piece of foam core. It's a two layered character, so you'll want another layer, but you're not going to cut out the shadow box. But I do want to say, You need to keep the shadow box shape that you cut out from your initial character. You'll need it later. just for size purposes. You'll see what I mean, but just make sure you hang on to that so You can use it later. So grab a pencil. and trace your person. So once you've traced your character onto your second piece of foam core, make sure you can see all of your lines and ...”
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Course summary for: Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
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Category
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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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