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Re: 2d to 3D - Popccorn

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Sandra Hildreth (shildret)
Tue, 01 Dec 1998 01:33:18 -0500

> I love this idea about the paper mache popcorn! You've got my brain gears
> crankin'. I've used popcorn also but from 3D TO 2D. Each person get a small
> handful and makes a tiny sculpture of 3-5 pieces white glued to a small
> piece of white matboard. We draw it on white paper approx. 6x8" with pencil
> and use lots of shading. We trace over that with tracing paper and enlarge
> it by grid method to 12x16". At this point you can do diff. things. One is
> to transform these basic shapes into something recognizable...

like enlarge them even more and imagine them as big as buildings - add
doors, windows, skylights, balconies, stairs, ramps, elevators, roof
gardens, and make little inhabitants existing within the environment!
Then make the structures out of paper mache!

This got my gears crankin' too.

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Sandra Hildreth
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