Paper Mache Animal Sculptures

Paper Mache Book now Available in Kindle

This is just a quick announcement: My book, Make Animal Sculptures with Paper Mache Clay, now has a Kindle version. I think it looks best on the free Kindle for PC ap because the photos are nice and big, and they’re in color. Now that I’m finished with that little project, I can go back [...]

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Full-Sized Paper Mache Elephant Created for High School Opera Performance

Back in May Dianna Duffy left this comment on our blog: Our high school was fortunate to receive the first license in the state of Mississippi this year (and across an 8 state area) to perform the Phantom of the Opera after being released to the public. After performing 5 nights locally to more than [...]

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Marusya, the T-Rex by Nick Allen – Guest Post

Today’s guest post is by Nick Allen, a journalist who somehow found the time to build this fabulous T-Rex out of items scrounged from garbage bins. I love the bumps on her back. Nicholas tells us how he made her below… And now, here’s Nick: I made the T-Rex model using a simple interior wood frame, [...]

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Paper Mache Hippo Wall Hanging is Finished

This is the second in the planned series of display masks/wall art/? – I haven’t quite figured out what to call them yet (suggestions welcome, as always). I’m happy with both the cougar and the hippo. They’re now hanging on my office wall, and I enjoy their company. Black Bear is next. I’m also enjoying [...]

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Ginny’s Howlelujah Chorus.

Ginny, one of our regular readers, sent this photo in her latest email update – and I fell in love with it. I asked her if I could show you the piece here on my blog, just in case you haven’t signed up for her newsletter. She told me that: The piece has a cat, [...]

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Walrus is Done, Finally

Remember the walrus I used as an experiment to see if you can use the paper mache clay in a mold? It took me a while to get this guy finished. (Arabian Oryx still isn’t done…) That’s the problem with my little experiments – once I know for sure the idea works, I get bored [...]

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Uh Oh – Tortoise is Sick…

At the beginning of summer I made a Ploughshare tortoise out of paper mache clay, to test how well it would hold up out in the garden. For many months it did just fine – through rain, downpours, sprinklers, and lightly filtered sun. He lived under a rose bush, since I didn’t think he’d want [...]

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Baby Chick Made With Paper Mache Clay

I started this project to test a modification to the paper mache clay recipe that was suggested by Ginny in a comment on our paper mache clay page. Her idea of substituting glycerin for the linseed oil in the recipe started a lot of activity in the comments section, so I just had to do [...]

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Colorful Paper Mache Giraffe “Painted” with Tissue Paper

I absolutely had to show you this colorful giraffe, made by a class of grade school kids with a bit of help from a parent with carpentry skills. A few days ago we saw a fairly realistic (very buff) paper mache panther mascot made by 7th and 8th grade kids, with some help from a [...]