Reading: Paper Sculpture by George Borchard

Thoroughly illustrated in both color and black-and-white, this book shows how to learn the basic principles of working with paper and making more advanced designs which include innovative stars and angels for Christmas, St. George fearlessly confronting a paper dragon and lampshades built from paper. The author describes the progression from flat to complex, rounded shapes and explains how only simple tools are necessary to advance from the fundamentals - rolling paper into cylinders, scoring lines before bending paper, or using discs as the basis for more advanced shapes - to the intricate results that make paper sculpture an ingenious craft. Mr. Borchard gives hints for selecting paper suited to the various projects and offers helpful hints about correct surfaces to use for colored paper. An interesting history of paper sculpture's development as an art form is included. --- from book's dustjacket