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Dry construction sculpture - EduqasCard construction

Dry construction uses dry materials, eg card or wire, instead of wet materials such as clay. These can be used to create sculptures varying in scale and form.

Part of Art and DesignSculpture

Card construction

Pre-decoration

Torn, painted cardboard with planks of wood showing through the tear
Figure caption,
A treated piece of cardboard

Before making a cardboard sculpture, it might be helpful to 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

The earth depicted as a circle with coloured layers stacked upon one another in a brown frame
Figure caption,
A card relief model of the Earth

A 鈥榬elief鈥 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

Cardboard statue of a kneeling man in a loincloth carrying the earth on his shoulders

Carboard is a 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鈥檚 contours gradually build.

Sculpture of people sitting around a table made from cardboard

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:

Image gallerySkip image gallerySlide 1 of 3, Cardboard sculpture of a figure resting on its elbow with its head on its hand,

Cardboard can be torn into small pieces and built up to create more or sculptures.