INFOGRAPHIC SERIES - PAPER CURL WITH LIVE PAINT

Create a paper curl and use Live Paint as well. Fun and easy, this is a great way to learn about Live Paint. And best of all it is simple and easy to do!

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Start with a Spiral. Take the Spiral Tool and click on the document and it will call up the Spiral Options Panel

Create a spiral with 6 segments. Add a stroke to see the shape.

Take the Spiral and use the Selection Tool to shorten the Spiral.

Duplicate the Spiral (OPTION + CLICK & DRAG). Them make it smaller and center it under the upper, larger spiral.

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Select both Spirals and apply a COMMAND + J to join the open ends. Do this TWICE. You can also find this under Object>Path>Join.

Draw a line from the top left edge to the bottom left edge. You cannot join these since they are not open paths.

Draw another line from the right inside edge as well.

Select all the shapes, and the choose Object>Live Paint>Make. It will show up as a "group" of objects with "snowflake" corners. Now you are in Live Paint Mode

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Choose the Live Paint Bucket Tool from the Tool Bar.

With the Live Paint bucket Tool active, you can hover over the shapes, and they will highlight in red. 

The Bucket will show up with a color bar which you can scroll through using your left and right arrow keys to pick a color then click on the area to apply.

Here is the result of the Live Paint Bucket Tool and the final filled scroll.

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Choose Object>Live Paint>Expand to break this out into shapes, lines and fills. 

Then Choose Object>Ungroup to get the outline free of the filled shapes. Ungroup them all again to break apart the filled shapes.

Select the same colored shapes and use the Pathfinder to Add the same fill colored shapes together.

Change the colors of the combined shapes to create a more dramatic, contrasted effect.
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You now have your paper curl effect and learned how to use Live Paint as well!