From the monthly archives:

May 2009

Paper Mache Horse, Day 6

May 31, 2009

I can see now that I really need to build a solar dryer if I’m going to continue making larger paper mache animal sculptures. It’s warm enough on my front porch to make wild yeast happy (that’s why paper mache paste gets that watery grey liquid on top if you leave it out for a [...]

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Paper Mache Horse, Day 4

May 27, 2009

Oops. I missed a day in this series because the paper mache horse had to spend the night in the ER with a cast on her ankles. The plaster board legs were, (I now realize), a bad idea. Fortunately, even when things break with paper mache you can almost always fix it. The water in [...]

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Paper Mache Horse, Day 2…

May 26, 2009

Yesterday I started to make a paper mache horse. (See the first post here). To be slightly more accurate, it will, I hope, look like an appaloosa colt when it’s finished. Yesterday I made a full-sized sketch and cut legs from plasterboard, using the sketch as a pattern. Today I used the same pattern to [...]

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Paper Mache Horse, Day 1

May 25, 2009

A recent visitor asked for some tips for making a paper mache horse for her daughter. I’ve never made one, but I think my grandson would love one for his room, too. I chose an appaloosa foal for my sculpture for two reasons – I love the long legs on a new colt, even though [...]

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How to Make a Paper Mache Giraffe

May 23, 2009

I’ve mentioned my giraffe in a previous post, but I skipped over the directions because this was an experiment for me. This is the largest paper mache sculpture I’ve ever done, and part of the process wasn’t very pretty. In fact, I stopped taking pictures before the project was complete. There were many times during [...]

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Paper Mache Animal Sculptures – Some Basic Tips

May 17, 2009

I just completed a paper mache goat kid. It’s a study for a larger sculpture I hope to do this summer. I thought it would be a good subject to use to discuss the leg bones, and how they affect the finished sculpture. The Importance of Leg Bones… If you find a photo of an [...]

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Painting Eyes on Paper Mache

May 2, 2009

The last thing I do on all my paper mache sculptures is paint the eyes. This is when the sculpture really comes to life. How I paint the eyes depends on what mood I’m in, and what I’m trying to achieve with the sculpture. Very Simple Eyes: The piggy bank and flying pig both have [...]

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Artists: Improve Your Website Traffic

May 1, 2009

Update, 1/5/2010: I just now replaced the old image of my yearly stats. As you’ll see from the rest of this post, it was written many months ago. I updated the image so you won’t think my previous visitor record was a flash in the pan. Paper mache searches (and my visitor numbers) peak in [...]

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