Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
Making The Secret Dream
A course by Sarah Hand , Artist, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Making The Secret Dream
Overview
“You will learn how to make a tiny armature for the secret dream that will go in the shadow box in your character. I will show you how to use simple materials to make it and prepare it for papier mache-ing. ”
In this video lesson Sarah Hand addresses the topic: Making The Secret Dream , 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
“Making the Secret Dream In this lesson, I'll tell you all about making the secret dream. To make the secret dream that fits in the shadow box of your character, you must make sure it's the right size. Remember when I asked you to keep this little cutout part? It now comes into play. What I like to do is take the thin cardboard we talked about earlier, just like cereal box or whatever, something from your recycling, not too thick, and I take my cutout from the shadow box and just trace it to tell me how big of a thing I can make to fit inside the shadow box. This will tell me my absolute lim...”
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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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