Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
Painting Life Into Our Characters 1
A course by Sarah Hand , Artist, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Painting Life Into Our Characters 1
Overview
“I love this part of the process - it’s where our characters come to life! You’ll pull together your color palette, mix paints and layer them to create the details of your sculpture.”
In this video lesson Sarah Hand addresses the topic: Painting Life Into Our Characters 1, 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
“Painting Life into Our Character! In this lesson, we're going to paint life into our characters. This is my favorite part of the process. You are done with the sticky, messy part, you're done with the planning, you already know what you want it to look like and now you get to mix paint and have fun bringing your character to life. The first thing I do with my primed character is paint the inside of the shadow box. There's a reason I like to do that first. Usually, I paint it dark, because whatever you put inside will sort of pop on the dark background, but sometimes, when you go in and try ...”
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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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