Card construction
Pre-decoration
Before making a cardboard sculpture, it might be helpful to Add a finish to a surface to protect or decorate it the surface first as it could be quite difficult to do this later on.
Sculptors and artists use a variety of surface treatments. This could include painting or staining, tearing, scratching, burning or peeling parts of the card away.
Card relief
A ‘relief’ is where the sculpture has a flat back and layers of card are built up on top of this to give depth and create a semi-3D sculpture.
Cardboard sculpture
Carboard is a Able to be bent, modified or changed to achieve different results material.
Sheets of card can be cut into flat slices and glued together to make a 3D object. Each layer needs to be precise so that the object’s contours gradually build.
Cardboard can be bent into shape and can make a sturdy work of art. Large-scale sculptures made from card can be cheap and light to move around.
Click through the slideshow to see a cardboard sculpture from different angles:
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Cardboard can be torn into small pieces and built up to create more Artistic treatment of a subject which explores and portrays it in a way that does not directly reflect how it looks. or Representational art shows real-life objects that are clearly recognisable sculptures.