Layered Paper Coral Garden with Soft Dimensional Shadows
paper coral · papercraft · layered artwork · marine design
Construct a coral garden from carefully cut and folded paper, photographed as a 3:2 landscape gallery artwork. Use stacked paper forms to represent branching coral, overlapping plates, and rounded colonies, all arranged as one continuous underwater scene. Position a large coral fan in the left foreground and smaller formations toward the right background to create depth. Choose dusty salmon, pale sand, turquoise, and deep navy papers with visible fibers and clean hand-cut edges. Side lighting should cast soft dimensional shadows between layers, revealing the craft without flattening the scene. Keep the coral recognizable through its structure, with restrained detail and no unrelated decorative motifs.