Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character
Painting Life Into Our Characters 3
A course by Sarah Hand , Artist, Author, and Teacher
About the video: Painting Life Into Our Characters 3
Overview
“I’ll teach you how to paint the shadow box on the character, as well as how to paint the small object that will live in the shadow box. Finally, I’ll show you how to attach the object to the shadowbox. ”
In this video lesson Sarah Hand addresses the topic: Painting Life Into Our Characters 3, 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 Characters! Now we're ready to paint the dream or wish that goes in the box of our character, and you've papier-mâchéd and it is dry. While we were papier-mâchéing it, I said sometimes with this little thing, you have to trim it with scissors, and that's totally fine. I need to do that with mine and I'll show you what I do. I usually just look at anything that's sort of dangling off or a big crunchy thing that doesn't adhere to the actual armature, and it makes it look a little weird, and I just trim it. Even if you see the cardboard underneath, we're painting it 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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