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Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character

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Overview

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Illustrate friendly characters full of hopes and dreams using simple paper mache techniques
  • Introduction
  • Preparing Your Ideas
  • Let’s Start Creating!
  • Finishing Touches
  • Final project
Create something extraordinary from simple and accessible materials using paper mache. Artist, author, and teacher Sarah Hand sees paper mache as a way to slow down and enjoy the present moment. She teaches paper mache to people of all ages and has even published a book where she shares her expertise on the subject.

In this course, Sarah shares her step-by-step process for creating colorful sculptures filled with personality, from finding inspiration for your project to bringing them to life through postures, clothes, and expressions. Sculpt interesting characters that tell their own stories through paper mache and layered paints.

Syllabus

  • About Me
  • Influences
  • What is Paper Mache?
  • Generating Your Ideas
  • Getting to Know Your Character, Inside and Out
  • Tools and Materials
  • Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature 1
  • Creating Your Underlying Structure and Armature 2
  • Making The Secret Dream
  • Paper Maching
  • Dry, Dry, Dry
  • Preparing Your Sculpture for Painting
  • Painting Life Into Our Characters 1
  • Painting Life Into Our Characters 2
  • Painting Life Into Our Characters 3
  • Hanging Your Character On the Wall, Taking Photos, and Sharing It
  • Paper Mache for Beginners: Sculpt a Colorful Character

Taught by

Sarah Hand

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