Paper Sculpture for Set Design
Before We Begin: Exploring the Possibilities and Sharing my Top Tips
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews , Paper Engineer
Joined April 2021
About the video: Before We Begin: Exploring the Possibilities and Sharing my Top Tips
Overview
“Once you have learned the paper techniques I share in this course, the possibilities will be endless! In this lesson, I will describe what I will be making for my project and give you some ideas as to what else you can create with your new skills. But before you get started on your creation, I'll be sharing some of my tips with you.”
In this video lesson Sarah Louise Matthews addresses the topic: Before We Begin: Exploring the Possibilities and Sharing my Top Tips, which is part of the Domestika online course: Paper Sculpture for Set Design. Learn paper crafting techniques to create beautiful 3D illustrations and structures for a product photography set.
Partial transcription of the video
“Before We Begin Exploring the Possibilities and Sharing My Top Tips After learning the paper techniques taught in this course, the possibilities will be endless. In this lesson, I'll be describing what I'll be making for my final project and giving you other ideas where you can use your new paper skills and give some tips before you get started. My final project will be a paper set that works both as an illustration and as a project photography set that combines botanicals and geometric elements to create the composition. To do this, I'll give you come ideas you can use your paper creations...”
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Course summary for: Paper Sculpture for Set Design
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Areas
Arts & Crafts, Design, DIY, Paper Craft, Product Photography, Sculpture, Set Design, Traditional illustration

Sarah Louise Matthews
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews
Sarah Matthews is a paper engineer based in Yorkshire, England who has been making things out of paper for as long as she can remember. She went on to study textile surface design at university, but soon realized that her true passion lay in working with paper and so decided to specialize in it. After graduating she began selling her paper products on Etsy and sharing them on social media, where her work began attracting commissions.
Since then, she’s built a following of over 30K on Instagram and created paper window displays for brands including Ted Baker, Pandora, and Selfridges. She’s also written for Mollie Makes Magazine and published her own book, Paper Craft Home, in which she shares her expertise.
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