Paper Sculpture for Set Design
Basic Paper Techniques
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews , Paper Engineer
Joined April 2021
Joined April 2021
About the video: Basic Paper Techniques
Overview
“To start, I will teach you the basic paper-crafting techniques of cutting, scoring, folding, and attaching. Then, we will make a layered pleated paper flower.”
In this video lesson Sarah Louise Matthews addresses the topic: Basic Paper Techniques, 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
“Basic Paper Techniques In this lesson, I'll teach the basic paper crafting techniques of cutting, scoring, folding and attaching. By the end of this lesson, I'll have made the pleated paper flower for the final project and the folded leaves. I'll start by showing you how to use a scalpel. I always use a Swann-Morton scalpel with a 10A blade, and mine's retractable for safety, but you can get one that's not. To remove the blade, I use pliers, hold the blade, pull it off. Like this. To put the blade on, hold it with the pliers, push it onto the scalpel. Push it on, like so. To cut a straight ...”
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Course summary for: Paper Sculpture for Set Design
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Category
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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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