For educational layout paper, cardboard, Eglin, sometimes foam is used.
The best material for exercises – heavy paper of the type "Whatman", watercolor on paper in folders, thin white cardboard.
Constructing out of paper involves analytical activities, and impart practical skills in designing, shape the ability of unconventional thinking. The use of a minimum of means with maximum expressiveness attaches to a holistic vision of both the specific form created by the artist and the problem as a whole.
In the work on the composition of the paper, it is necessary to note several important points.
Of great importance is the paper in identifying plastic forms. She has rich black and white qualities (reflectivity very high), so he gives black and white relations in contrast to the nuanced, subtle eye.
This is important in tasks where the expressiveness of the composition depends on the plastic development of its elements: tasks for the construction and identification of the frontal composition. Dark cardboard, Eglin not possess these qualities.
Chiaroscuro qualities of paper are valuable in the search situation: the plastic composition is manifested in different ways when changing the lighting; turns the layout to the light at different angles make it possible to check the plan and suggest new solutions.
Working with paper requires knowledge of its texture features. From the direction of the fibers, it lends itself to bending in different ways. Twisting it across the fibers, instead of perfectly smooth, we see the surface, crushed cracks and fractures. Determine the direction of the fibers is easy. To do this, cut two narrow strips from the sheet, one on the vertical edge, the other on the horizontal. With the help of an awl or pencil, you need to twist both strips into a spiral. The surface of one of them will be plastic, the other-covered with small cracks. This will tell you the choice of texture when performing three-dimensional structures of a cylindrical nature.
Paper is an easy-to-process material, so sketch layouts of paper are made very quickly. Combining options, you can quickly glue the composition, change the shape, proportions of its constituent elements, replace one element with another.
Any composition is created on the basis of the design, which is a system of stiffeners obtained as a result of bending a sheet of paper. Creating complex shapes, can not do without bends curvilinear. Some curve can be obtained with a cutter. It is necessary to perform an arbitrary curved incision on the sheet from edge to edge and bend it, you get a pretty clear and plastic fold line, which suddenly transforms the entire surface of the paper. It should be remembered that the depth of the incision should not exceed half the thickness of the sheet. In case of its insufficient depth, the sheet will either not bend, but will be in doubt, or will form indistinctly. A deep incision can turn into an undesirable through-cut of the workpiece.
Getting to work on the composition, you can make the first sketch samples in the chart, on a sheet of paper, then continue the search in the layout. Good proportions and fine elaboration of plastic elements, harmony of mass and clarity of lines as an integral part of the educational composition depends on the technique of the layout.
The layout can not be made of rolled and deformed paper. The paper must first be stretched on a stretcher (exception-watercolor and drawing folders), otherwise the surface of the faces will warp, and the form will "lead".