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Harry Progresses – Slowly

Share This week I have proven conclusively that you really can have too many projects going at once. However, I’ve still made time to work on Harry’s mask, and I’m starting to like the way it’s coming out. Harry looks like a fellow with a great sense of humor, (but we haven’t met, so I [...]

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Harry the Greyhound’s Mask Begins

Share Last month I participated in a fundraising event for sighthounds, and Nancy won the auction for a custom-made paper mache mini-mask of Harry, her beautiful greyhound. She recently sent a fabulous set of photos, from every angle – they’re exactly what I needed for this portrait mask. I started this project yesterday by creating [...]

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Guest Post from Paper Mache Artist in Botswana

Share We have a real treat today – and a great challenge, too. First, let me tell you how this all came about: I’ve recently been in contact with Janaina Matarazzo, who started the Recycled Paper project 3 years ago. The project participants are young artists from Moreomaoto, in Botswana. Their beautiful paper mache items [...]

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Poseable Hand Armature for Paper Mache Clay

Share I’ve been working on a chimp sculpture for the last week or so, with no real progress to show for it. Right now I’m waiting for UPS to deliver some more supplies so I can finish the head. However, I did make a poseable armature for the chimp’s hand this morning, and with some [...]

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The making of Georges (or The Joy of Rex)

Share What a treat we have today! Nicholas Allen is our guest artist, and he’s going to tell us what it was like to create the head of a life-sized T-Rex, named Georges, in a small Paris apartment. What a story, and what a beautiful sculpture. I can just imagine how exciting it would be [...]

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22 Paper Mache Puppets in 2 1/2 Months!

Share The video below was shared on the Yahoo Paper Mache Art group this morning, and I just had to show it to you all. Alex Adams and his assistants created 22 fabulously inventive puppets and masks for a children’s theater production of Dr. Dolittle, and they managed to make them all in just a [...]

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Pet Portrait Auction Begins Today!

Share Today’s the day when the pet portrait auction begins, to raise funds for the Global Sighthound Rescue group. If you haven’t yet had a chance to see the work done by the artists who are participating, I thought I’d give you a short tour of their studios. Click on the links below to see [...]

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Paper Mache Bunny – 3 Experiments in One

Share This week I’ve been doing more experiments, while also playing around with modeling clay portraits. The portraits were just for me, because I’m trying to learn how to do it. You can see a few (and also see what our fellow sculptors have been up to this week) on our Daily Sculptors page. All [...]

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Your Paper Mache Cats

Share Thanks to everyone who sent in photos of their paper mache cats. If you would like your own cat to be included in this gallery, send me the photos and I’ll add them. They can be cats you made following the paper mache cat videos I made, or they can be cats you made [...]

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Our New Daily Sculptors Page, and Thoughts About “Getting Serious” About Art

Share OK, it’s now unofficially “official” – we have a new page for anyone who would like to join our new Daily Sculptors group. The new page is here — you’ll also be able to find a link to it at the top of every page on the blog, right under the pig. Steven Pressfield, [...]

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Call for Cats, and Daily Sculpture Challenge

Share I think it would be fun to have a special post to show off all the paper mache cats that people made following my recent video series. Did you make a cat? If so, I’d love to add it to the gallery on a special post here on my site. If you’d like your [...]

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Thanks for Your Feedback – I Think We Have A Winner!

Share Thanks to everyone who commented and left suggestions on my last post. I played around with the paper mache clay recipe a bit more, and I really like the result. It’s now smoother, it isn’t sticky, and it holds incredible detail. It’s also less expensive to make, which is always a plus. The one [...]

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JonniClay v. 2.0 – Tell Me If It’s an Improvement or Not

Share I do hope you’ll experiment with these two new slightly-altered paper mache clay recipes if you have access to a few cups of powdered ceramic clay. The clay I used was ordered from Georgies in Portland. It’s their Wonder White clay. I think any ceramic clay without grog would work the same way. (You [...]

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Molds for Paper Mache Sculptures – Is this a Crazy Idea?

Share An idea for a new small business has been floating around in my head for a few weeks, and I’d like your input. Feel perfectly free to tell me I’m crazy. Or not. Honestly, I really haven’t decided myself. This would be a way for me to expand my own income while also giving [...]

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Paper Mache Head – Success!

Share It worked. The paper mache head did dry, even though the paper mache was applied over a wet clay form. But that wasn’t really the part I was most interested in. I wanted to know if I could cut the paper mache into two pieces to easily remove it from the clay, and then [...]

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