Paper Sculpture for Set Design
Arranging Everything in Place
A course by Sarah Louise Matthews , Paper Engineer
Joined April 2021
About the video: Arranging Everything in Place
Overview
“It's almost all done! To finish, I’ll be arranging my paper props to have it all ready to be photographed.”
In this video lesson Sarah Louise Matthews addresses the topic: Arranging Everything in Place, 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
“Arranging Everything in Place Now, I'll put all the elements together to make my composition to take a photograph. I have the pieces here that we made throughout the course and now I have to arrange them together on the plinth. I'll start by doing the geometric shapes. We've got the quarter circle. I'll put it there. I'll base it on the original composition I drew. Also, I won't be too strict about keeping it the same if I want to change things around. I'll put the smaller butterfly on the pyramid. Get some blu tack, just a tiny bit on the back. I can go... above it but with this blu tack I...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
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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